Elenium Automation, a Melbourne company founded in 2015, makes self-service check-in kiosks and bag drops that use computer vision and biometrics.
With 51 to 200 staff, it builds BagDNA, which recognises bags without a tag, biometric bag drop, voice-activated kiosks and the Flight Deck platform for managing fleets of devices. Its reported 15 million Australian dollar Series A from Acorn Capital is unverified.
Hong Kong (HKG) has 120 Elenium biometric bag-drop kiosks. Sunshine Coast (MCY) has ordered 18 kiosks and 10 bag drops for its terminal redevelopment from 2026. Etihad co-developed voice-activated kiosks and a biometric boarding channel in 2019 and 2020; their current status is unknown.
Sunshine Coast Airport · Elenium Automation
Sunshine Coast Airport opened its new check-in hall on 14 October 2026 with 18 automated kiosks, 10 bag drop units and an oversized baggage drop from Elenium Automation.
The airport had announced Elenium Automation as supplier on 3 November 2025.
Hong Kong International · Elenium Automation
Airport Authority Hong Kong agreed in 2015 to have Rockwell Collins install 120 common-use self-service bag drop units, with Type22's Scan&Fly integrated into the airport's systems, Future Travel Experience reported that September. Self bag drop is now one of the checkpoints covered by Flight Token, according to the airport.
Etihad Airways · Elenium Automation
Etihad Airways and Elenium Automation showed a voice-activated self-service kiosk concept in March 2019; the airline's release of 20 March 2019 said it used AI and computer vision.
A year later the two went further. Etihad said on 6 April 2020 that it would trial touchless kiosks with voice control and health screening at Abu Dhabi from the end of April into May, to help identify travellers who might be medically at risk.
Multi-airline self-service check-in kiosks with optional biometric identity verification, bag tag printing, and seat selection. Designed for common-use deployment across multiple carriers at a single airport.
Traditional check-in requires an airline agent at each position, creating queues during peak periods and high labour costs. Single-airline kiosks cannot be shared across carriers, limiting utilisation rates.
Fully automated bag drop unit that uses facial recognition to verify passenger identity and ML-powered computer vision to read bag tags, weigh and measure bags, and confirm compliance, without any agent intervention for the majority of transactions.
Conventional bag drop requires an agent to verify identity, check bag tags, and confirm weight/size compliance for every passenger, creating a labour-intensive bottleneck that limits throughput and inflates operational costs.
Passenger-facing mobile app that extends the Elenium self-service ecosystem to the passenger's phone, enabling biometric pre-enrolment, mobile check-in, bag drop booking, and real-time journey status updates before and during the airport visit.
Passengers approaching self-service kiosks and bag drops without pre-enrolment still require document verification on arrival, reducing the throughput benefit of biometric automation and increasing dwell time at hardware.
Airport operations monitoring platform that aggregates real-time status, health, and transaction data from all deployed Elenium kiosks and bag drop units into a single dashboard, enabling operations managers to identify issues before they affect passengers.
Airport IT and operations teams managing large fleets of self-service hardware have no unified view of device health, queue build-up, or transaction failure rates across the terminal, leading to reactive rather than preventive maintenance.
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Elenium competes in the airport self-service hardware market against much larger incumbents including SITA, Amadeus, and Materna, but has carved out a position in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East markets by offering tighter biometric integration than the established CUTE/CUSS vendors typically provide.
The 700+ kiosk figure across 13+ airports is a commercially meaningful installed base for a company of 70 staff, suggesting a capital-efficient deployment model.
The former Jetstar founding team provides direct airline operational expertise that pure-software airport tech companies typically lack.
The AU$15M Series A from Acorn Capital, an Australian deep-tech VC, indicates continued runway beyond initial deployments.
The Flight Deck platform is a strategic move towards recurring SaaS revenue on top of the hardware estate.
Elenium's biometric bag drop directly addresses one of the highest labour-cost operations in an airport: the bag drop agent requirement.
Airlines typically require one agent per two to three bag drop positions; automating identity verification removes the requirement for that agent in the majority of transactions, with agent-assist available for exceptions only.
At scale, this changes the economic model of bag drop from a staffed service to a hardware-and-software subscription.
The Flight Deck monitoring platform locks in recurring revenue and deepens the switching cost for airport operators who build operations processes around it.
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