Travel Card: airport self-check in using a wireless PDA

Author

Zimmerman, Thomas ; Ihde, Steve ; Aalders, Karsten ; Wright, Scott ; Wirth, Michael ; Hopkirk, Stephen

Author_Institution

IBM Almaden Res. Center, San Jose, CA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1224

Lastpage

1228

Abstract

A pilot project conducted at an airport allows passengers to self check-in and board using a personal digital assistant (PDA). The PDA runs a tiny browser wirelessly networked to a server. Transcoding software connects PDAs, gate readers and displays to the legacy reservation and departure control system. Gate readers cause digital photographs of passengers to appear during boarding for security check. Flight attendant PDAs and reception desk laptops receive digital photographs and flight records of passengers as they approach, to allow personalized greetings

Keywords

leisure industry; notebook computers; reservation computer systems; travel industry; Travel Card; Wireless PDA; airport self-check in; departure control system; gate readers; legacy reservation; personal digital assistant; reception desk laptops; transcoding software; wireless networks; Aerospace electronics; Airports; Control systems; Displays; Distributed control; Network servers; Personal digital assistants; Portable computers; Security; Transcoding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE

Conference_Location

Oakland, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7194-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.2001.948838

Filename

948838