RFID Makes Its Way Into Luggage
February 14th, 2008 12:18 PM | by Christen da Costa | 1 Comment
According to Digital Trends, for the next 6 months London Heathrow Airport and Emirates Airlines are testing RFID tagging to track luggage. Not just for internal airport use, the traveler will also receive text message updates as to the location of their bags. Hopefully all will bode well with Emirates Airlines and Heathrow, and the rest of the airport World will roll this technology out. It will be interesting to see how this system addresses the ‘lost luggage’ concern. No doubt this will draw some privacy concerns, though.
[...] Currently the robot porters are limited to taxi or bus stops. Pair this technology with the RFID luggage tracking I mentioned earlier this afternoon, and your bags might just magically show up at your hotel or [...]