Skeletal scanning was developed at Wright State Research Institute as an idea for a more secure, less intrusive biometric security system. According to researchers, each person’s bones is different, and combine that with bone density, any previous skeletal injuries or fractures, an extra rib or lumbar vertebrae, and we may have a good, reliable, and secure system to identify terrorists and high-risk individuals at crowded places like theme parks, airports, and other public venues.
Proponents of the skeletal scanning system say that the system is unique and would be harder to fool than competing biometric security methods, such as facial recognition scans, which can be deceived with a beard, mustache, or glasses, yet skeletal scanning would be less invasive and intrusive than fingerprinting or retina scans, which would require people’s active cooperation. The benefit here is that everyone’s bone structure is unique and slightly different, and people can’t disguise their bones.
Scientists say that entire body scans wouldn’t be necessary and the system could just scan a portion of the body, utilizing gamma rays, X-rays, or other body scanning methods. A database of known offenders would need to be established, and then you can set up the scanning machines at various points of entry to compare against an offender to spot out who you’re looking for, whether it be a child abductor, sex offender, or terrorist. Scientists say that scanners can be deployed in about a year, and the radiation level that the subject would be exposed to would be the equivalent of taking a cross-country airline flight.
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