Twenty minutes at the show, booked before you fly. Bring a terminal map and a problem: security queues you cannot predict, gate areas you cannot see into, or concessions that never get the footfall the forecast promised.
Airline and airport staff get complimentary exhibition access from FTE. Official registration
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Everything on the stand is shipping today. Nothing is a roadmap slide.
Time-of-Flight depth sensing counts everyone entering, capturing geometry rather than images. Patented phone signal sensing follows movement through the interior, reading the signals a phone emits even in airplane mode. Both feeds stream to Ariadne, where Hybrid Fusion combines them into one trajectory per visit. No MAC address, no device ID, no biometric data, no video.
How many passengers entered security, how long they stayed, which area they came from and went to next, and how long each transition took. The same feed drives the wait time on a screen and the alert that tells a duty manager to open another lane.
Ask the dashboard a question in a sentence instead of building a report. It answers from the visit data your own sensors produced.
Concession and cleaning rosters staffed to flight banks rather than to a fixed template. Either draft the shifts in the Employees Planner, or export the demand signal into the workforce system you already run.
Already deployed
Glasgow Airport measured queue time, dwell time, and gate waiting for a full year, then compared it against sales. The pattern was consistent: the less time passengers spent at security and at the gate, and the more they spent in the commercial area, the further non-aeronautical income rose.
Not a sampled average from last Tuesday. A live figure accurate enough to put on a passenger-facing screen, and to trigger opening another security lane before the queue reaches the door.
Time recovered at security only turns into revenue if passengers spend it in the commercial area. Measuring both halves is what lets you prove the trade, which is the argument Glasgow made to its concessionaires.
Ariadne captures no personal data at the sensor. There is no face, no demographic inference, and no identifier, so there is nothing to anonymise later. Identifiers are stored only when a passenger explicitly opts in, such as a guest Wi-Fi login.
This is a structural difference, not a setting. Biometric privacy statutes like Illinois BIPA and Texas CUBI regulate the capture of biometric identifiers, and a counter that never captures any gives them nothing to attach to. Operators with European terminals get the same structural answer under the EU AI Act's biometric categories.
Before the show
We are exhibiting at FTE Global 2026 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Dallas-Fort Worth, from 8 to 10 September 2026. The stand number is published on this page as soon as FTE confirms the floor plan. You can book a time with our team above and we will send the exact location with the confirmation.
No. Ariadne counts with Hybrid Fusion: Time-of-Flight depth sensing plus patented phone signal sensing, never cameras. Time-of-Flight captures geometry rather than images, and signal sensing captures no MAC address by default, so the measurement involves no video, no faces, and no biometric data.
Accuracy depends on the layout, sensor placement, and how the venue defines a count, whether that is entries only or zone by zone. Real-world deployments at airports and shopping centres consistently measure within 1 to 2 percent of ground truth.
Yes, that separation is one of the first things worth discussing with your own floor plan in front of us. Staff move on different patterns and through different doors, and how cleanly they can be excluded depends on the terminal.
Usually it feeds them. Ariadne has an open API and pre-built connectors, so the counts can drive the passenger information screens, the workforce system, and the BI stack you already run. Bring the list of systems and we will tell you which ones we have already connected to.
Yes. The same booking link works for a remote call, and the conversation is the same one: your terminal, one measurement you do not trust, and what our sensors would report there.
Diaries at a show fill from the outside in. Booking now gets you a time that suits your agenda rather than whatever is left on the last day.