BWI Airport launches LiDAR social distancing scheme
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25th January 2021
Using new technology, customers will be notified if they need to be more dispersed
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) has initiated a pilot programme using new technology that monitors social distancing information for customers at the facility’s security gate B.
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology as well as software from the airports partner, CrowdVision, are being used for the project to monitor, analyse, and report physical distancing.
Due to the motion analytics software, customers and airport management are notified when the level of social distancing is satisfactory as well as when more physical separation is needed.
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