Body Scanners, Trace & Weapons Detection

The non-imaging passenger-threat layer at and around the checkpoint: active millimetre-wave full-body scanners, explosive and narcotic trace detection (ETD) by ion-mobility or mass spectrometry, vapour-based standoff detection, CBRNE portable identifiers, and the newer AI weapons-detection portals that screen at walking pace without divestment. Procurement is governed by ECAC/TSA detection standards plus privacy and automatic-target-recognition (ATR) requirements. Buyers weigh throughput and false-alarm rate against passenger experience, and increasingly pair body scanners with ETD swabbing and standoff CBRNE for layered alarm resolution. These assets are bought both by airport security teams and by defence and critical-infrastructure procurement.