RFID Application of Baggage Handling and Real-time Tracking

Integrated aviation baggage handling plays a vital role in the airport, efficient and orderly baggage sorting, positioning control and tracking, It is one of the important factors that reflect the quality of airline services.

The traditional airline baggage splitting method is that when passengers check their baggage before boarding, the baggage will be put on the conveyor belt and sent to the plane on which they are flying. The new generation of integrated aviation baggage handling is to use RFID technology to complete baggage consignment.

Take Hong Kong International Airport as an example. There are thousands of luggage every day, and each luggage has its own unique barcode. Their recognition accuracy is as high as 80%. However, there will be one out of every five luggage checked by passengers. Or it cannot be correctly identified, which leads to misdeliver, delay, or damage or loss of the baggage; or the passenger cannot make the trip due to temporary changes after the baggage check-in procedures are completed, and the checked baggage needs to be sorted out with a 20% probability. ; Air baggage check requires real-time, accurate, cross-regional tracking and other links;

The traditional air baggage separation method does not have effective monitoring methods; it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and may affect the plane’s punctual take-off and flight safety. Airport airlines need to spend a lot of time and energy to deal with these disputes every year. The solution brought great economic losses to the company.

RFID technology helps aviation baggage handling solutions

UHF RFID Antenna, as a part of the SlimLine series of airport antenna, is a particularly suitable external flat panel antenna array for UHF RFID applications based on conveyor belts.

It works with ultra high-frequency (UHF) of 902-928Mhz. The design of circular polarization makes the antenna can read horizontal tag or vertical tag. it is good in appearance, environmental adaptability, easy installation. It is used for terminals, parking lots, shopping malls, toll station,Warehouse management, inventory counting, meeting sign-in. It is designed for quick and easy installation. Ideal for airports, to meet baggage handling systems or any conveyor belt application.

RFID readers use RFID external antenna and affix RFID electronic products to each piece of luggage to record various information about passengers, such as flight parking position, take-off time to track, allocate and transmit luggage;

When baggage entrusts airport baggage transportation to take over from passengers, the various controls of its flow, such as sorting, installation of electronic tag reading and writing equipment, and then transmission to various departments, realize the sharing of baggage information in the whole transportation process. In this way, the management level and efficiency are improved, the luggage will be delivered to the destination on time and accurately.

RFID technology advantage

Ensure the safety of passenger luggage and improve passenger satisfaction; effectively monitor the entire process of passenger checked luggage; implement the responsibilities of each operation link and operator; ensure the accuracy of luggage sorting; quickly find and pick out specific passengers’ luggage.

RFID tags are affixed to the randomly checked baggage of aircraft passengers. The RFID tags record the passenger’s personal information, departure port, arrival port flight number, parking position, departure time and other information flow control nodes, such as sorting, loading, Electronic mark reading and writing equipment shall be installed in the baggage claim area. When the baggage with the RFID tag information passes through each node, the RFID reader will read the information and pass it to the database to realize the sharing and monitoring of the baggage information in the whole transportation process.