Smart Airport and Cabin System to Avoid Touch Points and Maintain Social Distancing

A method of hands-free operation of controls for accessing a transportation vehicle, the method comprising:

• reading, by a number of code readers, a machine-readable passenger-characterizing code generated by a mobile electronic device, wherein each code reader is associated with a respective authorized-access entry barrier for admitting passengers to a transportation vehicle;
• actuating, by the number of code readers, mechanisms allowing entry through the entry barriers responsive to successful confirmation of the passenger-characterizing code, wherein the passenger-characterizing code incudes passenger identification, authorization to pass through the entry barriers and board the transportation vehicle, and a determination if a time-stamped temperature of a passenger is below a specified threshold indicating an acceptable passenger health status;
• receiving, by a signal receiver, control instructions from the mobile electronic device, wherein the signal reader is in communication with a Passenger Service Unit (PSU) associated with a respective passenger seat onboard the transportation vehicle, and wherein the mobile electronic device obtains controls specific to the passenger seat by reading a code associated with the passenger seat;
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• instructing, by the signal receiver, the PSU to actuate a number of passenger cabin controls for the passenger seat responsive to receiving the control instructions from the mobile electronic device.

A method of hands-free operation of controls for accessing a transportation vehicle, the method comprising:

• determining, with a mobile electronic device, a time-stamped temperature of a passenger;
• generating, by an application executable on the mobile electronic device, a machine-readable passenger-characterizing code, wherein the passenger-characterizing code incudes passenger identification, authorization to pass through the entry barriers and board the transportation vehicle, and a determination if the temperature of the passenger is below a specified threshold indicating an acceptable passenger health status;
• displaying, with the mobile electronic device, the passenger-characterizing code to a number of code readers configured to read the passenger-characterizing code, wherein each code reader is associated with a respective authorized-access entry barrier for admitting passengers to a transportation vehicle, and wherein the code readers are further configured to actuate mechanisms allowing entry through the entry barriers responsive to successful confirmation of the passenger-characterizing code;
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• sending, with the mobile electronic device, control instructions to a signal receiver in communication with a Passenger Service Unit (PSU) associated with a respective passenger seat onboard the transportation vehicle, wherein the signal receiver is configured to instruct the PSU to actuate a number of passenger cabin controls for the passenger seat responsive to receiving the control instructions from the mobile electronic device.