Passengers walk through the brand-new jet bridge, descend to the first-floor arrivals hall, and pass through the automated carry-on luggage screening system. After scanning their passports, they automatically complete temperature checks and facial recognition before proceeding to the baggage claim area. The entire customs inspection process - all the way through the final automated gate - has been fully streamlined. Travelers consistently praise the efficient new system.
Yantai Penglai International Airport, as a crucial hub connecting China with Japan and South Korea in Shandong Province and nationwide, consistently handles significant international passenger traffic. The newly constructed T2 International Arrivals Hall offers more spacious facilities, significantly enhancing passenger comfort.
During the construction of Terminal 2, the relevant departments of the airport, together with the port regulatory department and Zhongyun Smart Company, actively responded to General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions on the "Three Smart Ports" and focused on the "innovative port clearance mode" as the main baseline. Through multiple inspections and in-depth research, in order to promote customs clearance convenience, enhance passenger experience, fully implement the seamless customs clearance mode, and reduce staff intervention, the airport has cooperated with enterprises to customize and develop products such as rapid hand luggage inspection technology, intelligent baggage inspection and tracking technology for early machine inspection, as well as metaverse virtual reality fusion technology and other achievements for transformation. Multiple achievements have been fully deployed in the T2 terminal of Yantai Penglai International Airport, and have been tested for more than half a year, achieving significant results.
Digital Innovation for International Airports
The goal of international airports is to improve customs clearance efficiency, optimize passenger experience, increase throughput, and strengthen the security capabilities of ports. In the practice of Yantai Airport, port digitization and artificial intelligence technology have played a key role.
1. Comprehensive digitalization of the platform
By integrating multiple customs intelligent inspection systems, Yantai International Airport has established a new customs intelligent inspection platform. This platform utilizes IoT technology to achieve digital coverage of luggage tracking, risk identification, and regulatory inspection. With the support of the platform, the entire process of passengers and luggage entering the airport and completing customs clearance has been automated, greatly reducing the manual intervention of customs, while improving inspection efficiency and clearance speed.
2. 3D fully digital map
Based on virtual scene construction technology, establish a full scene 3D digital map in the international zone. This virtual environment not only visually reproduces the customs clearance scene at the airport, but also provides strong technical support for customs supervision. In the electronic map, various passenger data and dynamic data of luggage inspection are presented and located in real time, providing convenience for customs to respond quickly.
3. Integration of Metaverse and Video with AI
For the first time in the customs clearance scene, video fusion technology has been adopted. The airport has installed more than 30 professional cameras and used AI technology to integrate multiple videos into a 3D environment. The data from various inspection devices is overlaid with the moving passengers to form an intelligent monitoring system that combines virtual and reality. This system can display real-time passenger flow and dynamic customs clearance processes, enabling regulatory authorities to quickly identify key targets and provide accurate services.
The comprehensive upgrade of IoT and AI regulatory models
The construction of a smart port at Yantai International Airport has not only achieved hardware upgrades, but also brought about innovative regulatory models. The transformation from the traditional human dominated inspection mode to an intelligent supervision mode of "goods and people, by people and goods" has made the inspection process smoother and further enhanced safety.
On this basis, the intelligent tracking technology of luggage effectively solves multiple problems that existed in the past, including high detection rate of prohibited items. The intelligent inspection system combined with AI analysis technology improves the recognition rate of customs for prohibited items and ensures the safety of the country's borders. There is also precise collaborative positioning for luggage tracking: the luggage tracking function based on the Internet of Things visualizes the entire luggage process, reducing the occurrence of loss and false positives.
Double improvement of customs clearance efficiency and passenger experience
Since the deployment of the project, the construction of the smart port at Yantai Penglai International Airport has significantly optimized the international customs clearance process, with outstanding results:
1. Shorten the clearance time for passengers
The waiting time for passengers to clear customs at the international arrival hall has significantly decreased, from tens of minutes in the past to 13 minutes to complete all health checks and inspections. The efficient operation of intelligent inspection devices ensures the rapid progress of the process and provides passengers with a smoother entry experience.
2. Improvement in passenger satisfaction
The construction of a seamless customs clearance mode enables passengers to experience more efficient and humane customs clearance services, greatly enhancing their overall satisfaction and the service image of Yantai Airport.
3. Enhanced international flight support capability
With the help of intelligent inspection mode, the efficiency of airport flight support has been greatly improved, laying a solid foundation for further expanding international flight operations.
Building a new benchmark for smart ports
The smart port construction of Yantai Penglai International Airport is a typical case of promoting smart port construction in Shandong Province, and also one of the benchmarks for the development of smart ports nationwide. In the future, Yantai International Airport will continuously optimize processes with higher standards and advanced technology, improve passenger experience, better serve Sino foreign economic and trade exchanges, and make greater contributions to the innovation of the "Three Smart Ports" model.