RFID Luggage Tracking at Jacksonville Airport

securitas writes "AP reports that the Jacksonville Airport permanent RFID luggage tracking system will be installed this fall in time for the Super Bowl. The article concludes explaining that when San Francisco and Seattle ended their RFID pilot programs, they 'switched back to bar-code systems, saying the radio systems were unnecessary.' Mirror at Globetechnology, with more at Computerworld ,a large article at Jacksonville Business Journal, as well as some history from RFID Journal and Computerweekly." Moving to an untested system... paying for it by firing the baggage handlers who could help you recover from problems if the system proves to have bugs... what could go wrong?

Comments

"We lost your luggage..."

[Anonymous Coward]

But we do know for sure that it's located in Madagascar. Sorry, we have no flights to Madagascar.

First "Conversation Post"

[Anonymous Coward]

Husband: Fuck Jacksonville, I'll never visit their city again.

3 years later...

Husband: Honey...What cities don't have rfid tracking?

Wife: None, dear. Looks like were vacationing in the basement again this year.

Husband: Sweet, I think Doom 3 should be out by then.

Unecessary? Right.....

[hwapper]

they 'switched back to bar-code systems, saying the radio systems were unnecessary.'

They can't even get my luggage from one plane to another when they're next to each other.

Now if they mean they have a harder time losing track of the luggage then I would agree with the above statement.

What could go wrong?

[Otter]

What could go wrong? At the Super Bowl?

Well, if your halftime show costume has some sort of RFID system controlling its closures, you may want to check for interference during rehearsals. Or at least wear nipple jewelry.

Also, not giving Tom Brady the ball with a minute left seems like a sensible precaution, RFID or no.

To quote the great Douglas Adams:

[Anonymous Coward]

"Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only known exception to this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs."

Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

"Moving to an untested system... paying for it by firing the baggage handlers"

Almost sounds like their outsourcing the baggage handling it to India.

Re:Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

After all, that's where your bags are going...

Re:Permanent ??

[Neil Blender]

This just in: "Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce Alarmed at nurb432's boycot of city. Rethinking RFID decision."

Not necessary ??

[BorgDrone]

The article concludes explaining that when San Francisco and Seattle ended their RFID pilot programs, they 'switched back to bar-code systems, saying the radio systems were unnecessary.'

But RFID is the Next Big Thing(tm) how could anyone not need it ?

Lost the bag, but found the clothes

[chiph]

Sorry, the scanners aren't able to locate your bag. But they have found the 3-pack of underwear you bought at Wal-Mart last week.

Re:Yeah, this is a good idea

[87C751]

you cant live you life under feer that terrorists are going to do something.

Not everyone agrees with you.

Re:Yeah, this is a good idea

[Anonymous Coward]

So, with an unmarked van in long-term parking, a few deep cycle batteries, a power inverter, a laptop, a frequency generator, and a pringles cantenna I can single handedly take out an entire airports luggage tracking system whenever I want?

All your bags are belong to us!