Luggage Tracking Tags for Cross-Mode Security Screening Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current baggage handling processes in travel carriers are inefficient, costly, and resource-intensive, particularly for return flights from high-volume lodging entities like cruise ships, due to the need for manual data entry and printed bag tags, which can lead to errors and resource wastage.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilizes a tracking device attached to luggage items to store and communicate security screening information, including pseudo IDs and passenger data, allowing for automated luggage tracking and check-in across multiple travel modes, reducing the need for manual data entry and rescreening.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual data entry and printed bag tags are used for baggage handling, then baggage can be processed through security screening, but the process becomes resource-intensive, costly, and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical processes (data entry, printed tag attachment, physical rescreening) with an automated electronic system. Tracking devices with memory stores baggage information electronically, and automated systems retrieve and process this data, eliminating manual intervention and improving both accuracy and efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates electronic copies of baggage information stored in tracking device memory. Instead of manually re-entering data or physically rescreening baggage, the system retrieves stored electronic copies of screening results and baggage details, enabling rapid verification without repeating the screening process.
2Loss of information
If printed bag tags are used for each travel carrier, then baggage can be identified and tracked, but human resources are consumed for printing and attaching tags
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of printing and attaching physical bag tags with an electronic system. Tracking devices store baggage identification information in memory, and automated systems access this data electronically, eliminating the need for manual tag printing and attachment while maintaining accurate baggage identification.
Solution Approach 2:
The tracking device serves multiple functions: it stores baggage identification information, retains security screening results, and provides data for multiple travel carriers. This universal device eliminates the need for carrier-specific printed tags, allowing the same tracking system to serve different airlines and modes of transport.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If baggage is rescreened for each mode of travel transfer, then security requirements are met, but time and resources are wasted due to redundant screening
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs security screening in advance and stores the results in the tracking device memory. When baggage is transferred between modes of transport, the system retrieves these pre-conducted screening results instead of requiring redundant rescreening. This preliminary action maintains security while eliminating unnecessary repeat screenings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by storing security screening results in the tracking device and using this information for subsequent transfers. The feedback loop allows the system to recognize that baggage has already been screened and approved, preventing redundant screening actions and reducing transfer time while maintaining security standards.
Data Source
AI summary
Various methods and systems for tracking a luggage item of a passenger are disclosed. They may include, tracking, by at least one processor, a tracking device associated with the luggage item; and loading security screening information into memory of the tracking device, after the luggage item is screened by a first baggage screening requirement to travel using a first mode of travel. The method and systems may include generating, by at least one of the at least one processor, a baggage information message that includes the security screening information to a network interface of a computing system to screen the luggage item for a security threat that is the same as or lower than a first baggage screening requirement. This may enable the bypass rescreening of the luggage item at the second baggage screening requirement to transfer travel from the first mode of travel to a second mode of travel.