Airports & Aviation

Airport Access Control That Moves at Operational Speed

Badge-plus-face verification at SIDA doors and secure areas — shift-change throughput without weakening the checkpoint.

Opt-in enrollment · Badge fallback stays · Works with Genetec, LenelS2, C•CURE, and Genea

Rock X facial authentication reader verifying an aviation worker at an airport secure-area door

SIDA badge friction at shift change

Thousands of workers hit employee checkpoints in tight windows. Every fumbled badge and PIN retry compounds into queues that ops managers feel on the ramp.

Tailgating into sterile and secure areas

One person following another through a SIDA door is a reportable event with real consequences. Catching it can't depend on whoever happens to be watching a monitor.

Badged populations too large to know by face

Airlines, ground handlers, concessions, construction — tens of thousands of credentials across dozens of employers. Possession of a badge says nothing about who is holding it.

Badge audits that never end

Regulator-driven badge accountability and challenge programs consume staff year-round. Per-person verification at the door shrinks the gap the audits exist to catch.

Legacy biometrics that can't handle airside

Readers that fail in weather, glare, or 24/7 duty cycles end up bypassed. An airport door that must stay usable at 4 a.m. in January needs hardware built for it.

Dual-factor at the SIDA door

Face plus badge turns every secure-area entry into a verified-person event — the airport ID stays the credential of record, the face proves who is presenting it.

Real-time tailgating detection

The reader keeps observing after each unlock and pushes tailgating events to your access control system the moment they happen — before the incident report writes itself.

Enrollment at airport scale

Mobile self-enrollment and badge-office workflows onboard tens of thousands of workers across multiple employers, with consent recorded and revocable in the Alcatraz Platform.

Built for airside conditions

Rock X is IP66 and IK08 rated and operates from -40°F to 150°F, from darkness to 120,000 lux — jet-bridge doors, ramp-level entrances, and unsheltered gates included.

Your ACS stays the system of record

Standard Wiegand or OSDP reader behavior means Genetec, LenelS2, Software House C•CURE, and Genea keep running the doors. No rip-and-replace across a live airport.

Major U.S. international airport

Certified Alcatraz as its biometric standard after a rigorous pilot — more than 20,000 employees enrolled, with dual-factor authentication and strict privacy compliance requirements met.

Leading North American international airport

Deployed facial authentication to harden physical security while keeping employee access frictionless, supporting strict regulatory compliance across its facilities.

Major U.S. airports, as a category

Alcatraz facial authentication is deployed at major U.S. airports, protecting employee entrances, control towers, and secure operational areas (as of April 2026).

Compliance FIPS 201-3 FAA Safe Skies tested SOC 2 GDPR BIPA CCPA

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Enroll

People opt in from a phone or laptop in about a minute. Consent is recorded, auditable, and revocable in the Alcatraz Platform.
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Authenticate

A 3D, liveness-checked facial authentication happens at the edge — on the device — in under a second. Nothing to find, share, or clone.
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Integrate

Rock X presents to your access control system as a standard reader over Wiegand or OSDP. Panels, policies, and badge fallback stay put.

Can facial authentication be used at SIDA doors?

Yes — as a second factor alongside the airport ID badge, which remains the credential of record. Rock X verifies the enrolled person in under a second and passes a standard credential read to your access control system, so the existing SIDA door logic, alarms, and reporting stay intact.

How does it handle shift-change volume?

Authentication happens at walking pace, in under a second per person, with no PIN to type and no badge fumble. Workers keep moving through employee checkpoints in a steady stream — the reader, not the queue, becomes the constant. Badge-only fallback remains for anyone not yet enrolled.

How do you enroll 20,000+ badge holders?

In waves, without a bottleneck: workers self-enroll from a phone in about a minute, badge offices handle in-person enrollment during renewals, and consent is recorded and auditable in the Alcatraz Platform. A major U.S. international airport enrolled more than 20,000 employees this way during its pilot-to-standard rollout.

Does it work outdoors at ramp-level doors?

Yes. Rock X is rated IP66 for weather and IK08 for impact and operates from -40°F to 150°F in lighting from darkness to 120,000 lux. It is designed for unsheltered airside entrances and around-the-clock duty cycles, not just terminal lobbies.

What about worker privacy across multiple employers?

Enrollment is opt-in for every worker regardless of employer. A 3D scan becomes an encrypted, non-reconstitutable template matched on the device; no photos, names, or videos are stored on it. Consent records live in the Alcatraz Platform and any worker can revoke and delete their template at any time.

Will it integrate with the airport's existing access control system?

Yes. Rock X presents as a standard reader over Wiegand or OSDP, so Genetec, LenelS2, Software House C•CURE, and Genea see familiar credential reads. Panels, door hardware, and alarm integrations continue operating unchanged during and after rollout, and doors convert one at a time on your schedule.