New Delhi: Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, has announced the availability of the HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX for the Indian market.

The advanced cabin baggage screening system is based on Computed Tomography (CT) technology for passenger checkpoint scanners. The announcement follows an advisory by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), which mandates the installation of 3D computed tomography X-ray machines at pre-departure security checkpoints at all Indian airports with an annual traffic of more than five million passengers.

The technology not only provides advanced security screening and automatic explosive detection but will also help improve passenger throughput and overall experience at airports by no longer requiring passengers to place electronic devices, chargers, and liquids, among other items, into separate trays outside of their carry-on baggage.

Utilising the same technology used in hospitals, CT scanners examine baggage contents from every angle and generate 3D volumetric images which allow operators to more accurately analyse a bag’s contents whilst liquids and electronic devices can remain in bags.

The HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX also boasts the lowest energy consumption of any checkpoint CT X-ray on the market.

Vikrant Trilokekar, Managing Director of India for Smiths Detection, said: “The HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX has already been trialled at major Indian airports and we are excited at the feedback received from operators and security agencies. With a thousand units sold worldwide, the HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX is a proven security screening system.”

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