Facial Recognition For Entry To Indian Airports. Here's How It Works

The facility is now available on Delhi's IGI Airport, Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport and Varanasi's Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport.

The Airports Authority Of India on Thursday launched the Digi-Yatri service that will provide contactless entry to passengers at airports by using facial recognition technology.

The new service will ensure "contactless and seamless" processing of passengers through various checkpoints at the airports using facial features to establish their identity which could be linked to the boarding pass.

The facility is now available on Delhi's IGI Airport, Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport and Varanasi's Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport.

Here's how the process works.