Texas Instruments Case Study: Airline Baggage Identification
White Papers For the airline industry, getting passengers to their destinations on time and with their accompanying luggage is a feat that requires identifying and tracking millions of items daily. With Tag-it, smart labels the airlines now have highly reliable...
[August 2, 2007, 3:32]
Airlines Approaching RFID Technology
White Papers Now it is said that RFID is on the threshold of widespread adoption in the tracking of baggage, cargo and perhaps even passengers. Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags have long had the potential to make airline operations much more efficient...
[May 12, 2006, 0:00]
Airlines fear delays from e-Borders surveillance tech
News The e-Borders system will see airlines and ferry companies automatically forward details of passengers to a government database, for an estimated 250 million journeys into and out of the UK each year.
[February 12, 2009, 10:14]
Mobile phones promise paperless air travel
News Phones are currently used by 90 percent of airline passengers, opening up revenue-generating opportunities, such as mobile vouchers that can be redeemed in airports, according to Sita. Jim Peters, chief technology officer of Sita, said some such...
[June 23, 2008, 9:10]
RFID luggage tags mooted
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. Ditching bar-coded bag tags for RFID tracking chips could...
[February 24, 2005, 11:00]
Schneier on Security review
Reviews But — as Schneier repeatedly highlights — surveillance and data mining won't stop terrorists, although they will invade the privacy of ordinary citizens; airport security is 'security theater' designed more for show than for effect; and the two...
[October 22, 2008, 14:39]
