luggage+processing

__**Business & Employment**__ __Transportation Systems__ =**LUGGAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS**=
 * by Elaine Southwell**

__**Definition**__ Basically a luggage processing system has one major job: to keep luggage up with their owners. To do this, the luggage processing system has three major steps to take:
 * To transfer check-in luggage to departure gates
 * To transport luggage from one gate to another gate during transfers
 * To move luggage from arrival gates to luggage-claim for collection

Where it is used it is used most common at airports but there are similar systems in mail places to get no luggage but mail from place to place

How dose it work The Technology Being Used:
 * Destination-coded vehicles (DCVs): DCVs are self running carts that can load and unload luggage without ever stopping. They are driven by induction motors attached to the tracks. They run at 32 kmh (20 mph) - much faster than the conveyors.
 * Automatic scanners: Scanners scan the labels placed on the luggage so that they can be traced and reach their proper destination.
 * Conveyors: Have ‘sorting machines’ and ‘junctions’ that automatically take luggage to their proper destinations.
 * Powerful computers: These computers have to keep track of every single bag and its location, the traveller’s schedule, and the schedules of the planes. The computers also control the conveyors and the DCV track switches.

Real-time baggage tracking at Paris Airport (ADP)

· Aéroports de Paris (ADP) started testing its “Baggage Reconciliation and Traceability System” (SRTB) in January2004. This new automated system, which uses 150 Hand Held Products Dolphin® 7300RF mobile computers, manages and traces baggage in Terminals 1 and 2 at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. The Dolphin mobile computers provide real-time baggage management via the local Wi-Fi network. Eric Vautier, Project Manager for the SRTB project in ADP's Computer and Telecommunications Department, describes how the Hand Held Products mobile computers play a key role in the proper operation of baggage sorting and loading. ·

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Designed for large airports, the eXaminer XLB supports throughput of up to 1,100 bags each hour for inline checked baggage applications. <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontsize: 9.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-GB; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">

The OnGuard Cobra system brings CT 3-D continuous flow technology to the security checkpoint, with 360° image rotation reducing rescans and secondary searches. <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontsize: 9.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-GB; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">

The OnGuard DualUse system can be used at small and medium-sized airports to scan both carry-on items and checked baggage. <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontsize: 9.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-GB; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">

OnGuard Streamline provides breakthrough detection capabilities: low false alarm rates in a compact footprint are ideal for aviation security checkpoints.

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