SITA and Dacuda develop wearable electronics

SITA Lab is the research arm of SITA, the world's leading specialist in air transport communications and information technology. SITA Lab is exploring wearable computing to determine the potential value, impact and use cases for the air transport industry. Different use cases were evaluated. One application the researchers are exploring has the potential to make the onboarding process at airport gates more efficient and more secure.

When passengers come in for boarding, they hand their passport and boarding card to the gate agent who is wearing a pair of wearable smart glasses. By looking at it, the gate agent scans the passport and boarding pass. If there is a match between the names we get a small green light in the device and the passenger can board.

The device was developed together with Dacuda. The Dacuda SLAM Scan core enables wearable electronics, such as Google Glasses, to work as a reliable device for capturing and processing the data of passenger passport and air ticket information.

SITA has showcased this ‘world’s first’ solution at the Air Transport IT Summit 2013 and explains the use case in a video.