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Thales Gemalto Manual Border Control

Enhance border security and efficiency through reliable manual control solutions.

Biometric devices
Border control
Public Security

Empowering border control officers to expertly verify travellers’ identities using proven document and biometrics verification tools for reliable, secure, and efficient manual border management.

Enhanced border security

Reliable capture and verification of travellers’ identity and documents ensure officers can make fully informed, accurate decisions to safeguard border integrity.
Flexibility across borders air, land and sea

Modular design supports deployment at desks, checkpoints, and mobile control points, adapting easily to diverse operational environments.
Proven performance

Proprietary biometric and verification technologies, developed in-house for optimum performance, provide a robust, efficient, and highly reliable manual solutions for border control.

Advanced manual border control solutions

Designed for adaptability and reliability, our border solutions combine advanced capture and verification systems with skilled human expertise to address evolving security threats and rising passenger volumes. Powerful facial, fingerprint, and document verification capabilities help agents efficiently manage complex potential risks to national security without impacting legitimate cross-border travel.

4000+

biometric touchpoints deployed for border and travel worldwide

100+

countries rely on Thales document readers

23+

countries with borders protected by Thales’ border control solutions

With innovative manual border control solutions, Thales empowers border officers with tools for fast, precise identity checks and verifications. Whether using desktop, handheld, or mobile devices, our technology weaves biometric capture and verification and document scanning into a seamless process for airports, seaports, or land crossings. The result? Safer borders, shorter queues, and a better traveler experience.

Discover Thales Gemalto manual border control devices

A sophisticated new device designed for fast, efficient face image capture for manual immigration checkpoints at airports, seaports, or land borders. The Border Face Pod ensures sharp, reliable biometric enrolment to accelerate traveler processing while maintaining high security standards. With face capture in accordance with EU EES regulations, the Border Face Pod delivers quality, high-resolution images.

Combining face and iris recognition, this innovative device streamlines border control with multimodal biometric capture. It enables both enrolment and identity verification from a distance, enhancing efficiency and traveler throughput at airports. High-quality enrolment and verification face and dual iris acquisitions up to 1.5 meters with embedded LED lighting to eliminate shadows.

The Border Tablet is a sophisticated mobile tablet device with multi-modal biometric capabilities, enabling border control officers to process travelers on the go. It includes a fingerprint sensor, barcode scanner, contact card reader, iris camera, and sunlight-readable touchscreen display for optimum convenience. This compact, rugged, system-connected device is ideal for flexible border operations at sea or land ports.

The innovative AT10K-m Document Reader supports multi-spectrum imaging using visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light - enabling detection of subtle security features, hidden inks, and inconsistencies in an identity document. It validates high-quality White, IR, and UV images with exceptional RF performance, providing robust document authentication for physical and digital documents.

Thales Document Gemalto Verification provides a trusted and efficient solution for identity verification by automatically authenticating travel and identity documents within seconds. Leveraging both advanced optical and electronic security checks, it effectively detects fraudulent documents, streamlines operational workflows, and enhances security across border, government, and commercial environments. The core of this solution is a distributed software SDK designed to be used with Thales Document Reader devices.

Thales Multifinger Scanner CF500f: Compact and FBI-certified, this versatile 10-finger (4-4-2) fingerprint scanner is ideal for high visibility situations such as border control, e-ID enrolment and voter registration. Its reliability and adaptability are perfectly suited to complex border needs as well as for kiosk and gate integrations, law enforcement background checks, and civil identity projects.

Thales multi-fingerprint scanner — © Angelo De Leo

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