Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage

Chipper future for your luggage

By Nick Heath, 14 February 2008 17:10

A RFID chip the size of a grain of sugar is embedded in the tag like the one shown. The chip contains information about the passenger - including their name and route they are taking. RFID tags will still carry a barcode containing passenger information to be read by laser scanners at airports without the reader technology.

Photo credit: Nick Heath



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  1. 1. Richard

    Photo 7: Presumably, that office worker needs his "safety" jacket because those PCs are running Vista?

  2. 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.

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