Airport Checkpoint Optimization Software
Advanced Insights Platform
The Advanced Insights Platform (AIP) is the decision engine for checkpoint design, monitoring, and validation. Built by Point FWD since 2011, it turns assumptions into checkpoint evidence. Airports and OEMs use AIP to commit to operational and capital decisions with confidence.
Design, monitor and validate passenger security screening.
The high cost of ‘maybe’
Operating a screening checkpoint without precise data is expensive. Bottlenecks stay hidden, capital plans rest on assumptions, and changes go live without proof they hold up under real operation.
Invisible bottlenecks
You see the delay. You don't see where the lane is actually breaking down: divest, screening operator time, recompose, or somewhere in the alarm-resolution loop.
Assumption-based decisions
Multi-million capital plans get signed off on rules of thumb. Throughput claims, divest assumptions, and staffing models go unverified against the live operation.
Unvalidated changes
Layout changes, new equipment, and CONOPS revisions go live without operational simulation. Performance dips show up after the fact, when it costs the most to correct.
One platform. Three powerful modules.
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Module 1: Design & Optimization
Design and compare security lanes in a digital model. Configure CONOPS, divest scenarios, baggage and passenger screening, alarm resolution, and staffing. Run the What-If Optimizer to test layouts and parameter changes before construction starts.
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Module 2: Performance Monitoring
Combine data from screening equipment, passenger flow sensors, and Point FWD's Checkpoint Insight Tool into one KPI dashboard. Drill down into divest, screening, recompose, and recheck performance per subprocess, location, and time slot.
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Module 3: Checkpoint Validation
Queue modeling and lane planning tied to passenger demand forecasts. Configure flight schedules, arrival profiles, and CONOPS variants, then match staff schedules and lane openings to actual arrival patterns hour by hour.
Key benefit: Throughput and staffing aligned to actual passenger demand.
Built for the people that design and run the security checkpoint
Security Design & Planning
Prove the checkpoint design before you build it.
- Design security lanes
- Model screening scenarios
- Identify bottlenecks before go-live
- Compare performance across concepts
Security Operations & Optimization
Run the checkpoint on facts, not feel.
- Operational dashboarding & insights
- KPI monitoring against operational targets
- Bottleneck identification in operational data
- Automated and optimized lane and staff planning
3D flow simulation:
The ultimate stress test
For high-complexity checkpoints and capital projects, AIP scales into custom 3D passenger flow simulation. This is the layer where assumptions face a virtual operation under realistic demand and disruption.
Redundancy testing across lanes and subprocesses
Equipment failure scenarios under peak load
Asset availability and stability stress tests
The final layer of assurance before signing off critical infrastructure & staffing investment.
Clients using the Advanced Insights Platform
What our partners say
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Lukas Koblasa, Head of Security
“Point FWDs Advanced Insights Platform is furthermore clearly a priceless tool when creating a business case to defend the enormous budgets on technology transition to EDS CB C3 standards.”
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Mariëlle Sijm, Lead Airport Operations
“The great thing about AIP is that you can easily, quickly and coherently measure whether your initiated change has the desired effect.”
Cases: Work that leads the way
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Bordeaux Airport leads the way in future-ready security
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![Aerial view of Rotterdam The Hague Airport showing terminal building, airplane, control tower, and surrounding roads and parking lots.]()
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Rotterdam the Hague Airport develops a future-proof passenger security checkpoint
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![Empty airport security screening area with conveyor belt scanners and walk-through metal detectors.]()
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Zurich Airport sets the benchmark for checkpoint transformation
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![Interior of a modern airport terminal with large glass windows, high wooden ceiling, check-in counters, and travelers with luggage.]()
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Oslo Airport pioneers next-generation security
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![View of an airport terminal with airplanes parked at gates, luggage carts, and airport vehicles on tarmac under a partly cloudy sky.]()
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Brisbane Airport strengthens operational excellence
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![Aerial view of Ryanair airplanes parked at an airport terminal with a large parking lot in the foreground.]()
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Brussels South Charleroi Airport powers its terminal expansion with innovation
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Vanderlande is turning operational insight into design excellence
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![Airplanes parked at Zurich Airport with the airport terminal in the background, displaying the sign 'Flughafen Zürich'.]()
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Zurich Airport leads a full-scale checkpoint transformation
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Cases
See how organisations are setting a new baseline for security
