The FTE Baggage Innovation Working Group (BIWG) is currently undertaking its biggest Proof of Concept (PoC) to date, which is in deployment in Canada. BagsID – a BIWG Strategic Partner – is participating with the implementation of its BagBridge product at Toronto and Vancouver airports. In this video interview, following their participation at FTE Global – the “CES of Aviation” which took place in Long Beach, California, on 28-30 October 2024, Darin Juby, Head of Transformation, Future Travel Experience, and Richard Camman, Chief Executive Officer, BagsID, share an update on the PoC and its objective to demonstrate how specialised Computer Vision Technology (CVT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be leveraged to deliver overall efficiency to the baggage handling system.
Darin Juby, Head of Transformation, Future Travel Experience: “This is our fourth PoC and our largest by far. We’ve installed some great new technology from BagsID that will help identify bags and, ideally, help to increase sortation and read rates of the bags, which is critical to airport baggage systems. In Toronto we will be capturing the image of a bag at the spot where the passenger inducts the bag into the baggage system and then be able to read it further down line. What’s really interesting too is that it’s being built into the system and integrated into some of the controls, which is going to provide an even richer example of what this technology can do. The next step will be going to Vancouver Airport, having a bag travel across the country and then be able to identify it there.”
Richard Camman, Chief Executive Officer, BagsID: “Recognising the multiple stakeholder needs of the industry, the PoC connects the baggage tracking from Toronto across to Vancouver. Integrating with the core handling systems and solutions already in place, the PoC will prove how the new tracking solution can be an incremental value-add to the current system while also adding new baggage intelligence that the airport and airline can use to have further insight into overall handling. For too long, the industry has been forced to accept the standard performance. Now we aim to demonstrate how improvements can be made in short order.”
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