Cambridge firm looks to improve boarding system

A start-up company in Cambridge is planning to change the way passengers board aircraft with a new boarding card system.

Cambridge Crowd Visualisation (CCV) wants to upgrade traditional boarding cards and include sensors that will help to cut delays, Business Week reports.

By providing up-to-the-minute information, the company's "GateME" devices could help cut delays that sometimes arise when passengers arrive late for a flight.

They would hang around the necks of passengers and would advise them, in their own languages, of gate number information relating to their flights, as well as boarding calls.

CCV also believes they could be used for advertising and alert travellers to the shops and restaurants available in airport terminal buildings.

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