Use Cases
Smart Corridors & e-Gates covers five recurring scenarios. Two need only Face Matcher; three add Smart Corridor on top of it. Each scenario below says who runs it and which parts it uses.
| Scenario | Product | Typical site |
|---|---|---|
| Airport security screening | Face Matcher | Security lanes and terminal security zones |
| Identification at desks and kiosks | Face Matcher | Registration desks, enrollment kiosks, back office |
| Walk-through corridor | Smart Corridor | Airport arrivals and transfers |
| Corridor and gate | Smart Corridor | Busy immigration halls |
| Automated border crossing | Smart Corridor | Land borders, airports, seaports |
Airport security screening
The airport security operator connects the cameras at its security screening lanes and in terminal security zones to Face Matcher, which checks every face against watchlists of persons of interest within a fraction of a second. A match raises an alert for the security team in Station's live monitoring and is published over GraphQL and RabbitMQ to the airport's own security systems, so the response follows the airport's procedures, not the camera. Existing IP cameras stream over RTSP, or smart cameras process the video on the device; passengers do nothing differently. See the Face Matcher use cases for inputs and outputs.
Identification at desks and kiosks
Registration desks, enrollment kiosks and back-office tools send a single photo to the Face Matcher REST API and get an immediate answer: whether the person is already enrolled (1:N identification, which also catches duplicate registrations), whether they match a document photo (1:1 verification), and whether the face is live. No cameras are involved: the integrator calls the API from their own application, and Station offers the same check in a browser for occasional use. A typical owner is a border authority pre-enrolling travellers before they use a corridor or a gate.
Walk-through corridor
An airport or border authority lets arriving or transferring passengers walk through a corridor instead of queuing at a booth. Cameras along the passage identify each traveller at walking pace against pre-enrolled travellers; Smart Corridor groups the detections of one person into a single identity and publishes a clearance result before they reach the end. Officers follow identifications, unknown persons and people avoiding the cameras on the officer monitoring app, and travellers get live guidance on displays along the way. The corridor observes and reports but blocks no one, so it is usually paired with a decision point downstream.
Corridor and gate
In busy immigration halls the corridor and an e-gate work together. Travellers identified with confidence on the approach reach a gate that is ready to open, while those the corridor could not identify fall back to the gate's own capture and verification or to a manual booth. Corridor and gate are units of the same Smart Corridor deployment with one officer console, and the gate controller acts on the clearance events. The walk becomes processing time, so cleared travellers barely stop, while unknown or flagged people still meet a physical barrier.
Automated border crossing
A land border, airport or seaport replaces some manual booths with biometric e-gates. The traveller is captured and liveness-checked at the gate and identified 1:N against central databases or watchlists, with 1:1 verification against the passport photo as the fallback. The border authority owns the data and the decision to open; a gate manufacturer or integrator supplies the gates and connects them to Smart Corridor's clearance events (gate hardware integration); officers handle escalations from a central console. Watchlists can come from the Border Control Platform or from the authority's own systems.