The ECCO+ Solution has already been deployed in 58 countries by one of the biggest airlines in the United States and it has been approved by IATA for Resolution 753 to improve baggage tracking.
DULUTH, Ga., Nov. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — FEIG Electronics, a leading global supplier of radio frequency identification (RFID) readers and antennas with 50 years of experience, today announced its ECCO+ RFID/Barcode Scanner from its PANMOBIL mobile product line is approved by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) for airport baggage tracking.
According to the SITA Baggage Report 2017, for every 1,000 passengers, exactly 5.73 pieces of baggage were lost. This corresponded to 26 million pieces of baggage being reported missing in airports throughout the world. Ninety-five percent of this baggage was located within 48 hours and returned to its owners with a delay, 5 percent were regarded as having been completely lost. The affected airlines were required to spend $2.1 billion US dollars to reunite passengers with their lost baggage or to pay compensation for baggage that could no longer be found.
Effective June 1, 2018, the new IATA-Resolution 753 encourages airlines to track the baggage at four major baggage stations to enable baggage errors to be detected early. The four tracking stations of the individual baggage items include: at check-in, when being loaded into the aircraft at the departure airport when being fed into the baggage-transfer traffic, and when being unloaded from the aircraft at the end destination.
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Source: FEIG Electronics Introduces Mobile RFID/Barcode Hybrid Solution for Airport Baggage Handling