By Gemma Simpson
Published: Monday 11 December 2006
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Name
Peter
Location
London
Occupation
IT & frequent flier
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some time ago, Delta Airlines announced an RFID bag tagging system. However, a lost label is still a lost bag. Perhaps this is an opportunity for the higher end luggage manufacturers to embed RFIDs into the case itself and offer you the opportunity to log case identity/ownership with them, a luggage version of a MAC code. Delta or whoever could tie the two RFID identities together at check in. For the ID paranoids, logging is of course optional and they could choose only to do it in their bag was actually lost. I'd personally do it on purchase ...
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