AOptix Technologies announced that SITA, a specialist in air transport communications and information technology, has joined the AOptix Value Added Reseller program.

Under the partnership, SITA, who has customers in more than 200 countries which includes 300 airport locations, would be able to offer its customers AOptix solutions. These offerings include the InSight iris and face recognition product as an automated solution for airports to quickly and securely identify passengers at security checkpoints with documents such as biometric-enabled passports.

AOptix’s InSight solution authenticates a person‘s identity from 1.5 to 2.5 meters away from the scanner and has applicaton in broder crossing and airport security. AOptix and SITA also plan to combine the InSight solution with their own iBorders BioThenticate solution to bring a new biometric mode to the matching and management and passenger processing systems.