Chipper future for your luggage
By Nick Heath, 14 February 2008 17:10
Heathrow Terminal 3 and Emirates airlines are running a six-month trial of tagging luggage with RFID chips on flights to and from Dubai. About 300,000 pieces of luggage are expected to be scanned during the course of the trial which will cost £150,000.
Photo credit: Nick Heath
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1. Richard
Photo 7: Presumably, that office worker needs his "safety" jacket because those PCs are running Vista?
2. Alex Bomberg
Hi.
All this sound great but what happens when a bag departs from Heathrow. The vast majority of airports in the work do not have RFID and from what I have been told by the industry, they will not go down this route.
So why bother trying a system out when it will nly work in a few places.