RFID tuning methodology applied on airport baggage tracking

This paper presents an RFID equipment tuning and configuration methodology developed in a project to support baggage tracking and feed dashboards with real time status of Service Level Agreements between the airport, the airliner and the ground operators. The project has an end-to-end travel perspective: at the departure airport, monitoring RFID equipment is used from check-in desks along pre-defined baggage circuits up to the airplane cargo entrance; at the arrival airport, RFID equipment is used from airplane cargo doors up to customs exit. The lack of adequate tooling on the market presented the opportunity to build the tool used to collect the information presented on this paper. Along with the proposed methodology to tune RFID equipment on the site survey, we also present the architecture used to implement such system.