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Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID

News Airport operator BAA hopes this chip could save airport staff hours of time by slashing the number of suitcases with tags which need checking manually - a laborious process that is currently required for tens of suitcases at T3 every day.

Tags: rfid, heathrow, baa, chip

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[13 Feb 2008]

BAA's RFID trial prepares for takeoff

News Airport operator BAA is preparing to kick off an RFID luggage-tracking trial at Heathrow. The proliferation of wireless technologies in its airport environments has led BAA to work with wireless professional services provider Red-M, to ensure the...

Tags: rfid, wireless, baa, radio

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[14 Nov 2007]

RFID luggage-tracking lands at Heathrow

News The British Airport Authority (BAA) will install the infrastructure on selected check-in desks around the airport. A BAA spokeswoman said: "This trial will allow us to compare the success rate of RFID technology against our existing system.

Tags: tracking, pilots, airport, heathrow

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[09 Jul 2007]

Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up

News The miSense technology was developed and delivered by a consortium of organisations including Accenture, BAA, the Border & Immigration Agency, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, IER, Raytheon, Sagem and Sita. Air travellers have backed biometric security...

Tags: biometric, heathrow, misense

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[20 Jun 2007]

Re:Viewing 2006: Photos of the year

Photo BAA had to deploy an environmental relocation team to divert two rivers before building work could begin. See what the building of a new airport terminal involves in our here. April 2006: While in San Francisco, silicon.com's Will Sturgeon got a...

Tags: photos of the month, photos of the year, photo

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[20 Dec 2006]

Leader: IT at the heart of T5

Leader Information systems are a huge concern for the BAA team that's masterminding the £4.2bn project. BAA CIO Paul Coby has said the wireless tagging technology will not be used on the baggage system immediately because of cost and logistics...

Tags: heathrow terminal 5, wireless internet

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[20 Feb 2006]

Airport operator tests RFID for mystery application

News Airport operator BAA is experimenting with RFID, a technology which it says could create a "step-change" in the way it does business. BAA clearly has big hopes for the smart chip technology, as its group IT director Richard Rundle told silicon.com...

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[29 Apr 2005]

RFID tags could slash airlines' $1bn lost luggage bill

News Both BAA and BA also argued that in order to match passengers up with lost bags the RFID handling systems would need to be installed in every baggage system at every airport in the world. The British Airports Authority (BAA) also welcomed the use...

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[23 Feb 2005]

Heathrow Airport to get taxi-tracking RFID system

News The system is modelled on one already in use at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and is being deployed at Heathrow by British Airports Authority (BAA), which is working with IT services company Steria.

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[22 Jan 2004]