In an effort to improve the baggage handling process, the Air France-KLM combine is deploying RFID tags at two drop-off points at Amsterdam’s Schipol airport and one baggage drop-off area at Paris Charles de Gaulle.



The RFID project is in its trial stage. The company will evaluate the effectiveness of RFID technology in the airlines management. It has first introduced the RFID-supported tags to luggage checked in by its business class passenger for the planes flying between Paris and Amsterdam. The airlines companies will extent the RFID trial to other airports by the end of the year.



Impinj-made RFID chips are in use for the RFID trials. EPCglobal has approved these chips. They are identical to the bar-code printed labels. The label is encoded with the 10-digit unique number and three-digit date created by Air France’s baggage-tracking system.



As part of the RFID trial, the airlines company deploys an RFID interrogator at the baggage arrival area at each airport. Besides it, there would be an additional interrogator at Schiphol where the baggage-handling process requires a reader portal to help track and sort baggage checked in at the airport.













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