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Outsight Joins GATE Alliance to Expand the Horizons of LiDAR in Airports

Outsight has announced that it is joining GATE, The Airport Technology Network, dedicated to innovation and advancement in airport infrastructure.

Established in 1992, the GATE Alliance brings together 95 actors involved in various fields of airport operations management. From consulting and IT to material handling on terminals, its members include industry giants such as Siemens Logistics and T-Systems International.

This membership marks a significant step for Outsight, as it will collaborate with other GATE members to analyze and improve airport operations through Spatial Intelligence.

The partnership aims to integrate Outsight’s cutting-edge Spatial AI technology within airport ecosystems, enhancing operational efficiency, elevating passenger experience, and increasing safety.

Understanding How Lidar Works

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Bringing a New Dimension to Airport Operations with LiDAR and Spatial AI

Outsight’s unique Spatial AI technology, based on LiDAR, offers unparalleled insights into people flows and asset utilization within all airport environments, both in the terminal and the curb.

This collaboration with GATE will enable the global deployment of Outsight’s technology across airports around the world, contributing to smarter, safer, and more efficient airport operations.

Overview of Outsight

Outsight means the ability to see and understand things clearly: we transform Raw 3D data from different manufacturers into actionable information.

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Airports are constantly on the lookout for new solutions to improve performance and stay competitive.

LiDAR Enhances Airport Safety and Efficiency

Airports, as critical transportation hubs, play a dual role in ensuring passenger safety and maintaining a smooth flow of travelers.

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Outsight’s demonstrated expertise in deploying LiDAR-based Spatial Intelligence solutions across countries and operating environments provides airports with the appropriate expertise to appropriately discover the full potential of this new technology.

Functional in all lighting conditions, LiDAR enables people and object flow tracking without relying on facial identification, providing a secure and privacy-focused alternative to video cameras.

Raul Bravo, Founder-President of Outsight had the following to say,“We are grateful for this opportunity to join the GATE Alliance, another step demonstrating the growing recognition of LiDAR’s importance in airport management.”

“Collaborating with experts throughout this value chain will allow us to deploy this technology to new and more rewarding uses, all towards the purpose of streamlining, simplifying and securing the end consumer’s experience.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the GATE Alliance and who are its members?

    GATE (The Airport Technology Network) was established in 1992 and brings together 95 organizations operating across the airport value chain, covering consulting, IT, terminal material handling, and logistics. Member organizations include major industry players such as Siemens Logistics and T-Systems International. The network focuses on advancing airport infrastructure and operations through collaborative innovation, giving technology providers a structured channel to deploy solutions across multiple airport ecosystems simultaneously. Outsight joined the GATE Alliance to extend its Infrastructure-based Physical AI capabilities into new airport environments, building on existing deployments such as Dallas Fort Worth and Paris-Charles de Gaulle.

  • How does joining an airport industry network accelerate LiDAR deployment across multiple sites?

    Industry alliances like GATE give technology vendors access to a pre-vetted network of airport operators, system integrators, and infrastructure consultants who already have relationships with procurement and operations teams. Rather than building trust airport by airport, a member company can demonstrate a solution once within the network and reach dozens of potential deployment sites. This compresses the typical sales and validation cycle that governs complex, multi-stakeholder infrastructure upgrades. For Outsight, which has already deployed LiDAR-based physical AI infrastructure at airports including Dallas Fort Worth, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome Fiumicino, and Bordeaux, joining GATE extends that proven track record into a broader community of airport decision-makers looking for validated, scalable approaches.

  • Can LiDAR track objects and cargo in addition to passengers inside airport terminals?

    Yes. LiDAR-based spatial intelligence tracks any moving entity within its field of view: people, vehicles, baggage carts, ground-support equipment, and autonomous mobile robots. Each entity is assigned a unique anonymous ID and followed with centimeter-level precision. Outsight's Motional Digital Twin applies exactly this capability in airport deployments, including at Dallas Fort Worth and Paris-Charles de Gaulle, where the infrastructure-based 3D LiDAR approach covers the full terminal and curbside environment. This makes the technology applicable to asset utilization monitoring, baggage flow analysis, and ground-vehicle coordination, not only to passenger flow, which broadens its operational value considerably.

  • Why do airport technology alliances matter for privacy-sensitive deployments?

    Airports operate under overlapping regulatory frameworks (GDPR in Europe, various national data-protection laws elsewhere) and face public scrutiny over surveillance. Deploying a new sensing technology through a recognized industry network provides a governance layer: standards, audits, and peer review from established operators who have already navigated those regulatory requirements. LiDAR satisfies privacy requirements structurally because it captures shape and motion rather than faces or license plates, making it anonymous by definition. Outsight reinforces this through its infrastructure-based approach, where the SHIFT platform processes 3D point-cloud data without ever recording biometric identifiers. Working within a credentialed alliance such as GATE further reduces procurement risk for airport authorities evaluating unfamiliar technology, offering the peer validation that regulated environments demand.

  • What airport operational metrics does spatial intelligence cover beyond passenger headcounts?

    Spatial intelligence derived from infrastructure-based LiDAR covers queue length and wait time at every checkpoint, dwell time by zone, throughput at gates and retail corridors, curbside vehicle occupancy, near-miss and incident detection, and staff-to-passenger ratios relative to real-time demand. Outsight's SHIFT platform delivers these metrics as live KPI dashboards, retrospective 3D replays of any past moment, and forward-looking congestion forecasts, giving operations teams visibility across time horizons rather than a single snapshot. Deployments at airports such as Dallas Fort Worth, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, and Rome Fiumicino illustrate how this breadth of measurement translates into actionable insight across the full terminal environment.

  • How does LiDAR-based spatial intelligence complement existing airport IT systems like AODB or BHS?

    An Airport Operational Database (AODB) holds flight schedules, gate assignments, and resource allocations, but carries no real-time picture of where passengers or assets physically are. A Baggage Handling System (BHS) tracks bags at scan points but not in the spaces between them. LiDAR-based spatial intelligence fills that physical layer by feeding live position and flow data into the AODB to trigger dynamic staffing or gate changes, and by monitoring the floor areas and corridors the BHS cannot see. The Outsight SHIFT platform delivers this capability through documented APIs, making the data consumable by existing airport IT without replacing it. Deployments such as Dallas Fort Worth and Paris-Charles de Gaulle demonstrate how this integration model works at operational scale across large, complex terminal environments.