Airport terminals are typically crowded in baggage claim areas and lack a certain ease of use as the passengers stand around anxiously waiting for their luggage to come out to claim. This group’s project would help alleviate that burden by attaching RFID tags to luggage and scanning them when they are loaded onto the baggage carousel. Once the owner of the luggage is identified, they are notified via either a text message or an airline mobile application. Passengers can be alerted that their bag is available on the carousel without them having to check every individual bag as it passes by. A television display mounted next to the baggage carousels would also be used to show a real-time table of luggage currently being unloaded and placed in the baggage claim area, as well as the bags already found on the carousel. This would result in a more orderly luggage retrieval process, compared to the current chaotic process.
Patent Link
BAGGAGE DELIVERY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
Group Members
Adrian McGrath is currently a senior student of the Computer Engineering department at the University of Central Florida. He will receive his Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering in December of 2015 and is going to pursue a working career as a software developer. He is hoping to get his own startup company running. |
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Tomasz Pytel is currently a senior student of the Computer Engineering department at the University of Central Florida. He will receive his Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering in December of 2015 and is going to pursue a working career in the Computer Engineering profession. | |
Ernest Jackman is currently a senior of the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Central Florida. He has previous work experience in communication, and radar repairs as an Electrical technician in the U.S. Navy. He is currently working towards a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. |
Sponsors
NCR is the owner of the patent the CLAIM Project was based on. NCR provided the group with technical advice. | |
LivingBucket.com provided the group with a web server to run the demo's airline web services off of. |