Smart Corridors & e-Gates
Smart Corridors & e-Gates is the site-level half of the Innovatrics Border Control & Passenger Facilitation offering, next to the Border Control Platform: automated traveler passage that identifies people biometrically as they move, and publishes every passage to your border systems in real time. The corridor maximizes throughput for people in motion; the eGate makes confidence-based control decisions at a fixed point. Both connect to the Traveler Identity Service or to any other external system through the same integration surface.
Two products, one solution
The solution is delivered as two products that you deploy together or separately:
| Product | What it is | Who deploys it |
|---|---|---|
| Face Matcher | The base module: a real-time face identification server with its web UI, Station. It ingests camera streams, matches faces against watchlists and publishes results over REST, GraphQL, RabbitMQ and S3. Sold on its own for any real-time identification need, and mandatory inside every corridor deployment. | Anyone who needs live face identification: airport security, secured areas, API-only identification services. |
| Smart Corridor | The corridor and e-gate layer on top of Face Matcher: it groups a traveler's detections into one identity, turns the identification stream into clearance decisions, and gives officers and travelers a screen. Optional multi-camera tracking follows people through the space. | Border authorities, airports and gate integrators building automated crossings. |
Smart Corridor depends on Face Matcher only through Face Matcher's published integration list: the Docker network, six container names and ports, credentials, the license file and the start order. Today the corridor package ships its own copy of Face Matcher and starts it first; the same integration list makes it possible to point a corridor at a separately deployed Face Matcher later.
How a passage works
- Capture. Cameras along the corridor or at the gate stream video to Face Matcher, either as RTSP streams processed on the server or as edge streams from smart cameras that run the Embedded Stream Processor.
- Identify. Face Matcher detects and tracks faces, checks liveness, and matches each face against the watchlists you enrolled. Every result is a notification with a score, the matched member and the face crop.
- Decide. The Smart Corridor Hub consumes those notifications, correlates them with the identity grouping service, and publishes a clearance event per traveler: green for an allowed watchlist, red for a denied one, and alerts for unknown or evasive people.
- Act. The traveler display and the officer app show the outcome instantly, and your border systems subscribe to the same events over GraphQL to open a gate, route a traveler or escalate.
Where to start
- Evaluating the solution? Start with the use cases, then Smart Corridor for the corridor and e-gate form factors. Standards & certifications and the biometrics glossary are under Resources.
- Deploying identification only? Go to Face Matcher and its getting started path. Everything under Face Matcher stands on its own.
- Deploying a corridor or e-gate? Go to Smart Corridor and its first deployment. The corridor package brings Face Matcher up for you; the Face Matcher pages remain the reference for cameras, watchlists and the identification engine.
- Need the detail? The Manuals are the complete reference for every component of both products.
- Integrating? Corridor events are documented under Smart Corridor integration; Face Matcher's own APIs under Face Matcher integration.
License Agreement
Use of this solution is subject to the Innovatrics License Agreement.