Ireland’s Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration has installed 25 new and upgraded biometric eGates at Dublin Airport. The deployment was procured through the Office of Government Procurement’s eTenders process and uses a Vision-Box and Amadeus system.
The eGates replace and add to the existing biometric border control infrastructure at the airport, which handled more than 18 million arriving passengers in 2025, with about 6.3 million of those processed through eGates. Officials expect eGate volumes to rise after the upgrade. The new system includes enhanced facial comparison technology, stronger impostor detection measures, and a two-step verification process during border processing, with an integrated ID card reader that accepts identity documents from eligible passengers from participating countries.
Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration Jim O’Callaghan said Dublin Airport welcomed more than 18 million arriving passengers in 2025, an indication of the volume the upgraded gates will need to process. Minister of State Colm Brophy said the new eGates carry “enhanced facial comparison technology, stronger impostor detection measures and improved verification processes,” the three elements the department highlighted as the operational difference compared with the previous gates.
Vision-Box, working through the Amadeus passenger-processing platform, is a regular supplier of biometric eGates to airports outside Ireland. The vendor recently deployed 78 biometric eGates with Amadeus at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Vision-Box also operates eGates at airports including Amsterdam Schiphol and has built out broader deployments across Asia and Europe.
The two-step verification element of the new Dublin system separates the document-reading step from the live facial comparison, a design that gives the gate two independent checks before opening. Impostor detection, the department’s term for the system’s ability to flag attempts to use another person’s document, is one of the categories on which the new gates are expected to outperform the previous generation.
Sources: Government of Ireland
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
