Perth-based security technology group QRSciences Ltd announced the airport security device using its quadruple resonance technology, the Clear registered traveller kiosk, has won US Government approval for a nation-wide rollout.
Perth-based security technology group QRSciences Ltd announced the airport security device using its quadruple resonance technology, the Clear registered traveller kiosk, has won US Government approval for a nation-wide rollout.
The full text of a company announcement is pasted below
QRSciences is pleased to report that the Transportation Security Administration, the agency of the U.S. Government responsible for the nation's transportation security, has approved Clear as a Registered Traveller Service Provider for roll-out to the nation's airports.
QRSciences' core Quadrupole Resonance technology is an important component of the Clear registered traveller kiosk through GE Security's ShoeScanner product.
QRSciences established a cross-licence agreement with GE Security earlier this year which paved the way for roll-out of products using the company's QR technology. Under the license agreement with GE Security, QRSciences receives royalty payments on sales of all GE QR products including the GE ShoeScanner.
The cross-license agreement with GE also enables QRS to sell competing products using GE's proprietary QR intellectual property. QRS is currently developing its own ShoeScanner device at the Company's facility in Perth.
Clear was part of the Orlando International Airport Registered Traveller pilot program established in mid-2006 and has recently received formal notice from the TSA that is has been approved as a Registered Traveller Service Provider for the Registered Traveller program national roll-out. Clear is in the process of completing construction of Registered Traveller lanes at New York's JFK, San Jose, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati airports as the first phase of a national rollout beginning this month and intends to extend this service across up to 20 U.S. airports over the course of the next 12 months.
The Clear program embraces a verification and passenger screening kiosk, co-developed with GE, that incorporates the GE ShoeScanner product alongside explosive trace detection technology. The combined technologies' ability to assess registered program members without removal of shoes and jackets facilitates significantly reduced and more consistent passenger screening times with improved security.
When completed it is estimated that there will be approximately 1000 Registered Traveller lanes established at the nation's airports.
"This order confirms quadrupole resonance as a viable technology and the GE ShoeScanner product as a new and robust source of revenue for QRSciences," said Kevin Russeth, QRSciences' Chief Executive Officer.
"Royalty payments to QRSciences from the U.S. roll-out will fall right to our bottom line and we are hopeful that the establishment of international registered traveller programs and nonaviation security related applications will add to those figures in the longer term," Russeth concluded.
