Maybe this has happened to you: You’re waiting for your bag at the baggage claim, having just flown in. The crowd thins as passengers recover their bags and trundle off to vacations, waiting family and business meetings. Eventually only a few bags remain, and none of them is yours. You check, again, to make sure this is the right claim area. Suddenly the carousel stops. An airport worker appears and starts to remove the unclaimed bags from the carousel. Your bag is gone. “Fill out this form. We’ll call you if it turns up,” says the harried clerk in the lost baggage office. Imagine having a baggage management system that will ensure that your bag is not lost in transit or one that offers you real-time information about the location of your baggage. That’s what RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) promises airlines and travelers.

There is a strong potential for implementation of the, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) in aviation. Major aviation industry players, such as IATA (International Air transport Association), Boeing or Airbus have recognized the potential huge savings and benefits of such technology being incorporated on a large scale basis.

Application of RFID in aviation can be directed to a great variety of problems aiming at higher control, reducing costs or both. Solutions can be tailored either to one single aircraft, or to a complete airline fleet. They can be adapted either to an isolated user, or to virtually countless users (for example, either for single department or one consultant use, or for full airline or airport access).
Most RFID applications have to be integrated into existing systems (e.g. bar-coding), however they can also be developed to match isolated requirements and to work in standalone and simple systems. Aviation customers for this technology range from airport share holders, operators and investors to isolated aviation consultants, either one of them with the same target: achieving outstanding performance in their respective fields of actuation.