Alien RFID Safety Act Designation

Alien Technology's products and services have been designated as Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technologies under the Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies (SAFETY) Act of 2002 for airports baggage and cargo handling systems. ...

... "Baggage and cargo handling systems utilizing Alien products and services have been installed at airports around the world in order to help defend the global air transportation system against a wide range of terrorist threats. These implementations provide enhanced security to the handling and transportation of materials, baggage and other cargo. " ...

Via Alien Technology: RFID Implementations for Airline Industry Awarded Liability Protections from U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Heathrow RFID Pilot

BAA plans RFID pilot at Heathrow to create efficiencies in baggage handling. ...

... "RFID could save airports and airlines GBP400m a year in reduced baggage losses and replacement of existing messaging systems. " ...

Via VNUnet: Heathrow Trial

RFID Baggage Management ...

Management of airline baggage using RFID technology is slow to achieve broad adoption. ...

... "The research company believes Asian and European airlines will be the first to start tracking bags, with their hard-up US counterparts hanging back from adopting RFID. " ...

Via Silicon.com: What happened to RFID's baggage-tracking boom? ...

RFID Phase Jitter Modulation Technology ...

Zebra licenses Magellan's PJM Phase Jitter Modulation technology to support its RFID produtct development. ...

... "Under the license agreement, Zebra has the right to develop and commercialize RFID reader modules and tags that incorporate Magellan's patented PJM technology. In 2006, Zebra plans on embedding the reader modules in its printer/encoder products to enable more efficient programming of smart labels and tags. Ratified in 2004, PJM is an HF RFID system specified in an existing global standard: ISO/IEC 18000-3 mode 2, RFID for Item Management. Because the technology is optimized for applications where many hundreds of tags are packed tightly or need to be read reliably in dynamic situations, it is an ideal solution for pharmaceutical e-Pedigree, document control, gaming and other applications." ...

RFID Phase Jitter Modulation Technology: Via Zebra Technologies: ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES NEW RFID LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH MAGELLAN TECHNOLOGY ...

Magellan Technology Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, is a technology developer, manufacturer and licensor of advanced read and write 13.56MHz RFID systems. Magellan designs and offers RFID chips, inlets and a complete reader portfolio (multi channel, multi antenna, tunnel, and tray readers) and all operating software. Magellan’s Phase Jitter Modulation (PJM) technology complies with the International Standard ISO/IEC 18000 Part 3 Mode 2. PJM is optimized for applications where many hundreds of tags are stacked tightly or need to be identified reliably in dynamic situations including pharmaceutical authentication, document control, jewelry tracking and gaming management. The technology is also optimized for conveyor fed applications where tags are presented in all orientations. Typical applications are in the airline baggage, postal and courier markets. Magellan develops and licenses its PJM technology world wide to interested parties including other manufacturers and system integrators.

RFID Airline Luggage Efficiency Enabler ...

SITA recommends RFID technology for luggage tracking ...

... "SITA is among those recommending that airlines or airports pay for Radio Frequency Identification technology. An RFID tag is automatically scanned by numerous stationary readers that record each movement a bag makes through the system. " ...

RFID Airline Luggage Efficiency Enabler: Via Lexington Herald-Leader: Low-tech bag tracing is due for an upgrade ...

Mishandled baggage costing $2.5 billion as air travel passenger numbers soar to two billion says SITA: "It recommends that markets where mishandled baggage is a problem would be better served by adopting technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging and bag reconciliation systems to track baggage at various points throughout the bag's journey. RFID means fewer bags have to be handled manually and improves security. A recent survey by SITA - in partnership with the Airports Council International and Airline Business magazine - found that RFID tags are being used for baggage handling in just 6% of airports surveyed but also identified an expectation that RFID tags will be used in 45% of airports by the end of 2009. SITA has developed an integrated, end-to-end baggage reconciliation system which combines RFID, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and highly redundant IP-based global links to ensure baggage gets to its destination with the minimum of fuss. "

RFID Baggage Application Testing at Airport

Arnold M. Knightly explores the testing of RFID baggage tracking at the McCarran International Airport. ...

... "While RFID technology has been used selectively in a few airports around the country, the nation's fifth-busiest airport is the first to do a total conversion to the decade-old technology. " ...

RFID Baggage Application Testing at Airport: Via Las Vegas Business Press: RFID baggage system undergoes testing ...

Airport RFID Security Market ...

Article explores the growth of the airport security market and implications for RFID technology applications. ...

... "Similarly, the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for baggage management remains on the periphery, with only 6 percent of airports deploying it, SITA says. But by 2008 or 2009, RFID could make a serious impact when that percentage could jump to 45 percent. " ...

Airport RFID Security Market: Via AirportBusiness: Airport Security Mkt. is About to Get More Bullish ...

RFID Airline Luggage: Low ROI?

Airlines are not aggressively investing in RFID given their financial situation. ...

... "Radio frequency tags, or RFID, could reduce the losses, but the airlines aren't really using that because of their financial situation, Cantrell said. Delta, which is operating under bankruptcy protection, tested RFID bag-tracking but put off using it in favor of technology projects which return value more quickly than RFID would, Black said. " ...

RFID Airline Luggage: Low ROI?: Via Statesman: Lost luggage lands in Alabama

Via Computerworld: Delta to Test RFID Tags on Luggage: "Delta will give RFID devices a trial run on selected flights from Jacksonville, Fla., to its headquarters hub in Atlanta. It said the 30-day test will involve the use of more than 40,000 disposable RFID tags that operate at 900 MHz and are being made by two vendors: Matrics Inc. in Columbia, Md., and SCS Corp. in San Diego. "

Delta Says RFID Devices Pass First Bag-Tag Test: "The success rate of the RFID technology was far better than the 80% to 85% accuracy rate that's typically provided by bar code scanners, according to officials at Delta and the IT vendors that took part in the test. Pat Rary, manager of baggage strategy at Atlanta-based Delta, said the trial run at the airport in Jacksonville, Fla., also met a key requirement: It was invisible to the airline's check-in agents and required no new training. "

Via Silicon.com: Delta promises end to lost luggage with RFID: "The company announced that it is to spend between $15m and $25m to roll out an RFID system across its American network. When the system is installed, it will be able to track bags from check-in, where RFID tags will be attached, until they are dropped off at the baggage carousel at the customer's destination. "

BearingPoint RFID Baggage Handling Systems ...

BearingPoint RFID Baggage Handling Systems: Via Business Intelligence Network: BearingPoint Completes Study For RFID Baggage Handling Systems ...

... "BearingPoint's new methodology goes a step further, providing analysis of the business and financial impacts of implementing an RFID-enabled baggage handling solution. Midsize airports and airlines with a focus on point-to-point traffic and limited transfer activities are less likely to be able to justify an investment into RFID by quantitative savings alone in the near term. " ...

RFID Department Homeland Security

RFID Department Homeland Security: GAO: Abstract

... "The main technology components of an RFID system are a tag, reader, and database. A reader scans the tag for data and sends the information to a database, which stores the data contained on the tag. The major initiatives at federal agencies that use or propose to use the technology include physical access control and tracking assets, documents, or materials. For example, the Department of Homeland Security is using it to track and identify assets, weapons, and baggage on flights. RFID standards define a set of rules, conditions, or requirements that the components of the system must meet in order to operate effectively. " ...

RFID PrintApply Label Throughput ...

RFID PrintApply Label Throughput: FKI Logistex Introduces the Print-and-Apply Module: System automates label printing and application, increasing throughputs ...

... "FKI Logistex, a global leader in integrated material handling solutions, introduces the Print-and-Apply Module, a self-contained, fully-automated system designed to streamline and automate label printing and application in bar code, RFID or hybrid ID environments. " ...

FKI Logistex® North America is a leading provider of automated material handling solutions, supplying its customers with an integrated set of leading-edge technologies in high-speed sortation, conveyor systems, carousels, palletizing, paperless pick products, AS/RS, controls, order fulfillment systems, RFID implementation, EDS integration, baggage handling systems, warehouse control systems, and total material handling automation. FKI Logistex provides material handling solutions for airports, postal facilities, parcel distribution, manufacturing operations, library automation, and for warehouse and distribution facilities. With projects that include many of the world's largest and most advanced material handling operations, FKI Logistex has manufacturing, engineering and support facilities around the world.

RFID Baggage Tracking eServices

RFID Baggage Tracking eServices: SKYTEAM CELEBRATES FIFTH ANNIVERSARY: Members Outline Goals for Remainder of 2005 and the Next Five Years

... "Even before IATA announced its Simplifying the Business proposal, SkyTeam members have been investing in e-Services to improve the passenger experience. With nearly half of the agreements between members already in place, SkyTeam will offer alliance-wide interline e-ticketing by the end of the year. The alliance is also exploring the future enhancement of individual carriers' kiosks for all alliance customers and the use of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) in baggage tracking. " ...

SkyTeam is the global airline alliance partnering nine members, including Aeroméxico, Air France, Alitalia, Continental Airlines, CSA Czech Airlines, Delta Air Lines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Korean Air and Northwest Airlines. Through one of the world's most extensive hub networks, SkyTeam offers its 343.6 million annual passengers a worldwide system of more than 15,000 daily flights covering all major destinations.

Southeast US RFID Market

Southeast US RFID Market: FKI Logistex, Material Handling Solutions Worldwide: FKI Logistex to Open Atlanta Regional Office ...

... "FKI Logistex (www.fkilogistex.com), a global leader in integrated material handling solutions, announces that it is opening a new regional office in Atlanta, Georgia to increase support for the company's growing base of customers in the southeastern United States. " ...

FKI Logistex® North America (www.fkilogistex.com) is a leading provider of automated material handling solutions, supplying its customers with an integrated set of leading-edge technologies in high-speed sortation, conveyor systems, carousels, palletizing, paperless pick products, AS/RS, controls, order fulfillment systems, RFID implementation, EDS integration, baggage handling systems, warehouse control systems, and total materials handling automation. FKI Logistex provides material handling solutions for airports, postal facilities, parcel distribution, manufacturing operations, library automation, and for warehouse and distribution facilities. With projects that include many of the world's largest and most advanced material handling operations, FKI Logistex has manufacturing, engineering and support facilities around the world.

RFID Transportation Market: Systems and Services Capabilities

Alien Technology® Acquires Quatrotec To Drive Expansion In RFID Transportation Markets ...

Alien makes acquisition that strengthens its ability to deliver RFID solutions to the transportation market ...

... "The market for RFID in transportation is projected to grow rapidly in the next three years. Venture Data Corporation predicts that the market for RFID systems for air transportation & airports alone will reach $236.4 million in 2008. In acquiring Quatrotec, Alien has expanded its ability to address air, sea, ground and homeland security-related RFID applications of any scope and scale. Serving the air transportation industry for more than 20 years in projects ranging from $1 million to well over $200 million, Quatrotec possesses particular design and implementation expertise in such highly specialized areas as airport security systems, baggage handling systems, passenger services and terminal operations. " ...

Alien Technology Corporation is a leading provider of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products for global customers in government, retail, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, transportation, and other industries. Using its patented manufacturing process, Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA®), Alien manufactures EPC tags in very high-volumes and at low cost. The company provides a family of RFID readers for a variety of applications including supply chain management, logistics, and anti-counterfeiting, to improve inventory management and reduce operating costs. Alien is an active member of EPCglobal.

RFID Tags Baggage Screening ...

Hearing on Checked Baggage Screening Systems: TESTIMONY OF ROGER W. RIMINGTON, CHIEF AVIATION SECURITY CONSULTANT ...

... "In concert with surveillance and profiling, utilize a system to Radio Frequency (RFID) tag bags to ensure that selected bags will be rejected at level 1 and sent to level 2 for enhanced search. R.F. tags need to be recovered at the baggage sortation area and used again. (There are probably better alternatives to R.F. tagging available now) R.F. tagging of High Risk bags (selected by CAPPS) along with an alarm signal to the Baggage Screening System Room to scrutinise in outside mode ensures that this does not block or clog the overall system. " ...

RFID Vehicle Security Tracking Integration ...

RFID Vehicle Security Tracking Integration: I.D. Systems Wins Grant from Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to Integrate RFID Baggage Tag Tracking Into Vehicle Security System: Symbol Technologies, Inc. to Provide RFID Solutions

Symbol and ID Systems team up to integrate RFID bag tracking into vehicle security system to enable intelligent business processes in a vehicle and asset management network ...

... I.D. Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDSY) announced today that it has been awarded a grant from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to integrate RFID (radio frequency identification)-based baggage tracking capability into the company’s Wireless Asset Net™ vehicle security and tracking system. I.D. Systems will develop and prototype a mobile, automated baggage tracking system in which “intelligent” containers and vehicles identify and locate items tagged with EPC (electronic product code)-compliant RFID tags, and communicate that data through I.D. Systems’ wireless vehicle management network. To support the RFID integration, I.D. Systems will collaborate with Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: SBL), a worldwide leader in data capture, mobile computing, wireless infrastructure and RFID technology, to provide the EPC-compliant RFID tags and readers. ...

Based in Hackensack, New Jersey, I.D. Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of wireless solutions for corporate asset management. I.D. Systems’ customers include 3M Company, American Axle, Archer Daniels Midland, DaimlerChrysler, Deere & Co., Ford Motor Company, General Dynamics, Hallmark Cards, Northrop Grumman, Target Corporation, Walgreen Co., the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Postal Service, and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, among others. Using local area networks, wide area networks, and the Internet, the company’s systems enable management to control and track the location and status of their assets — from forklifts and cranes to automobiles and trucks — in real time.

RFID Baggage Tests

FAA ...

... "The agency also conducted two Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Baggage Tag trials, in conjunction with United and Continental Airlines. The tests provided critical operational performance information to support airline efforts to develop an international standard for RFID Baggage Tag use. " ...

RFID Movement Tracking System

MTS Is Revolutionizing Logistics on the Move

Kelly M. Tapp writes ...

... "Other plans for MTS improvements include interfacing MTS with radio frequency identification (RFID). RFID achieves in-transit visibility by letting users receive accurate reports of the location of supplies at all stages of their movement. An RFID network can track the transportation of supplies such as ammunition, baggage, and medical equipment from Army depots to regional distribution centers and then to Army installations in Europe and other theaters." ...

SaltLakeCity Airport RFID Trial ...

TSA | Transportation Security Administration | TSA Awards Additional $8.2 Million in Grants to Airports for Advanced Security Technology

... "Salt Lake City Department of Airports was awarded $924,000 to purchase and deploy a web-based RFID system to track the location of mobile resources, such as baggage carts and other vehicles near and around aircraft. " ...

RFID Market Forecast ...

RFID Market Forecast: Global RFID Market to Top $7 Billion by 2008 ...

This research report studies the growth of the RFID market, from tags to interrogators, and develops a forecast for the market size in volume, revenue, and by geographic region ...

From PR Newswire (press release) ... RFID Forecasts, Players and Opportunities 2005-2015 - a new market research report, from independent experts ...

... RFID Forecasts, Players and Opportunities 2005-2015 - a new market research report, from independent experts IDTechEx, reveals some surprising predictions in the RFID market. Repeating the barcode market trend, where the market grew then declined, the value of the RFID market will initially peak before the annual numbers of tags sold peak. As technical problems are slowly being overcome at the previously little used UHF frequency to tag 30 billion pallets and cases a year, the market for item level RFID tagging of medicines, baggage, animals, books and tickets grows strongly in value. In 2008, 6.8 billion tags will be sold for these applications as well as 15.3 billion tags for pallets and cases.
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IDTechEx, Cambridge, UK provides independent consulting and market research on RFID, smart packaging and printed electronics.

Innovative RFID Airport Services ...

Chicago Tribune | Vegas airport a high-tech pioneer: Jane Engle, of the Los Angeles Times, writes about the technology pioneering spirit of the Las Vegas airport. This spring, the airport plans to implement RFID luggage tags to accelerate security processing and increase the quality of baggage routing. This approach to new technology, such as RFID, allows the airport to launch new and innovative business services.

Aviation RFID: FAA Pilots ...

From NASA ...

... "The agency also conducted two Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Baggage Tag trials, in conjunction with United and Continental Airlines. The tests provided critical operational performance information to support airline efforts to develop an international standard for RFID Baggage Tag use. " ...

The FAA continued a dynamic research and development program in support of its mission to provide a safe, secure, and efficient global aerospace system that contributes to national security and the promotion of U.S. aerospace safety.

Aviation RFID: Accu-Sort Installs 4th RFID Airport Security Sortation System

From Business Wire (press release), CA ... 2004--Continuing its tradition of pioneering work in auto ID, Accu-Sort Systems today announced it has successfully installed its fourth RFID airport baggage ...

... Continuing its tradition of pioneering work in auto ID, Accu-Sort Systems today announced it has successfully installed its fourth RFID airport baggage sortation system, used for high-risk passenger luggage screening. Enhanced screening of high-risk passengers has become an imperative since 9/11. However, traditional baggage identification technologies do not guarantee that the right bags are sorted to the right locations without human intervention. The reason for the failure is lack of "line of sight." ...

Accu-Sort Systems, a Danaher company, is a pioneer in auto ID and high speed/reliable compliance solutions with more than three decades of experience deploying and supporting scanning and tracking solutions in distribution, warehousing, manufacturing and retailer environments. The company is also an established provider of RFID and bar code technology convergent systems with more than 40 RFID installations.