Thales border management system
Enhancing border intelligence for smarter detection and safer prevention
Thales BMS empowers border authorities with a secure, fast and flexible platform to manage national borders at every entry point – air, land and sea.
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Optimized traveler flow
Reduces border congestion and improves throughput with pre-enrolment and automated checks – helping authorities manage high volumes without increasing staffing needs.
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Trusted identity validation
Delivers fast and accurate identity confirmation using biometric and document verification – supporting compliance, fraud prevention and secure admission policies.
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One system for all borders
Applies central rules uniformly across all border types – ensuring fairness, auditability, and alignment with national security objectives and international obligations.
A modular platform for border control
Thales Border Management System (BMS) is a national border control system that connects all control points to a central back-end. It manages biometric enrolment, document verification, risk analysis and decision support ensuring compliance with various international and national border management frameworks and standards.
Our border expertise in numbers.
Thales BMS replaces fragmented controls with one integrated solution – linking every checkpoint to the same data, rules and decision logic. The result: smoother operations, faster clearances and stronger security nationwide.
Explore our border control solutions
Trusted border control solutions
Advanced biometric technologies for efficient, secure and connected borders
- Biometric devices
- Border control
- Passenger experience & security
ABC eGates for air, land and sea border crossings
Introducing the future of border crossings
- Biometric devices
- Border control
- Passenger experience & security
Thales border kiosk
Fast, secure and self-service pre-enrolment for border clearance
- Biometric devices
- Border control
- Public Security
Thales Fly to Gate
Delivering a seamless biometric journey and improving operations efficiency
- Passenger experience & security
- Public Security
- National security
Latest news
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The Software République unveils cleveR insights: a new approach to territorial intelligence serving public action
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Estonia raises the bar for secure digital identity in Europe with new eID cards developed with Thales
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