December 20, 2005

RFID at McCarran Airport

McCarran Airport, Las Vegas, has been one of the early adopters of RFID in the aviation industry. It decided to implement RFID for tagging baggage in 2003. McCarran handles 25 million bags every year and all these bags are tagged. line56.com reports:

McCarran looked into using barcodes in place of RFID, but, according to Blue, achieved only an 80 percent read accuracy rate.

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