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Should airports switch their existing baggage-handling systems to RFID?
Yes—doing so now would facilitate baggage sorting and customer updates 66% 35 votes
 
Yes—but not until after a global RFID network is first established 21% 11 votes
 
No—bar-code and other existing systems are sufficient to the task 9% 5 votes
 
Don't know 4% 2 votes
 
53 votes total
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  Should airports switch their existing baggage-handling syste DAVE RENSBERGER 07/21/2008   
   I think this question is somewhat silly.

I don't think hardly anyone who travels disagrees with the idea of RFID being used to track their baggage. I'm guessing you'd even win over some of the normally anti-RFID crowd if you could prove that it results in a decrease in lost luggage.

The much more interesting question is how to implement it. This seems like more of a political challenge than a technical one. To truly be useful, a baggage tracking system has to be ubiquitous and I suspect that getting all of the airports and airlines to agree on standards that would make such a system work would require a herculean effort. Reply >>.
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