This futuristic machine that could expedite process of getting passengers through security

THE WAY travellers get through airport security is constantly evolving. This is what checking in might look like soon.

BAG screening at the airport can be a slow process, but unfortunately it’s a necessity.

But a new bag scanning system could help make those security lines faster.

The honeycomb-shaped machine — called the Qylatron Entry Experience Solution — is receiving positive reviews and could be the future of airport screening after a trial run with the US Transportation Security Administration.

The machines have already been tested with success at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco and Disneyland Paris.

Technology news website PSFK reports the federal security group will begin testing the Qylatron Entry Experience Solution machine as a remedy for manual carry-on luggage scanning at US airports.

The automated machine works similarly to the current system:

• A traveller walks up to the machine, scans their ticket and puts their carry-on luggage in one of five available lockers.

• From there, the machines screen the luggage for any potentially threatening items using a combination of X-rays, radiation screening and chemical screening.

• If a potentially hazardous item is discovered by the machine, the luggage is flagged for an additional manual check.

• Otherwise, a traveller picks up their item at the other side and is free to catch their flight.

The Qylatron was first deployed at the World Cup in Rio, Brazil.

The machine can handle 600 guests with one bag apiece in one hour, a rate of about 10 guests every minute. Continual software updates from manufacturer Qylur would make sure new threats could be screened for by the machines.

The Qylatron machine addresses two points of contention for travellers. First off, the machines could potentially speed up the screening process, as the honeycomb-shaped machine could scan five traveller’s items at a time. Second, the new system also increases traveller’s personal security, as the lockers would secure each traveller’s items until they are able to retrieve them from the individual locker.

The machines have already been tested with success at other high-traffic venues requiring various levels of security, including Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco, home of the 49ers football team, and Disneyland Paris. There is no word as to when the machines could appear in airports if the trial is successful.

“Qylatron itself is a very intelligent learning being, similar to an IBM Watson, but inside a physical system. And it interconnects with other systems like it to make itself smarter and to change its decision making processes,” Lisa Dalev, the founder and CEO of Qylur, recently told CNBC.

“It receives information from other types of systems as well, that can be interconnected including databases of people that are coming in or other environmental aspects. But the big part of it, is it is learning from its own self-environment of what people are bringing inside as well as other brother and sister types of machines types of machines.”

The Qylatron was first deployed at the World Cup in Rio, Brazil and may roll out in other NFL stadiums, Dalev said.

This article was originally published onFlyertalk.com