Hyderabad: In a significant step towards becoming a Smart Airport, the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here has introduced the Internet of Things-enabled Smart Baggage Trolleys, becoming India’s first airport to deploy IoT for tracking and maintaining the availability of baggage trolleys for passengers in real-time.
According to an official communiqué, RGIA has deployed the Long Range (LoRa) IoT platform for the Airport Baggage Trolley Project. The entire fleet of 3000 baggage trolleys has been enabled with IoT, which will translate into a substantial reduction in the waiting time of passengers for baggage trolleys and will ensure the availability of insufficient numbers in real-time. Trolley management and replenishment will be based on the requirement at various areas across the airport, officials said.
Smart Baggage Trolley management will address challenges of trolley retrieval and replenishment by locating trolleys at the right time and at the right spot. It also helps tackle the theft of trolleys and empowers the airport to meet passenger requirements on a real-time basis.
The Smart Trolley Management system has the capability to plan baggage trolleys according to the predictive analyses of estimated departure and arrival passenger loads, they said, adding that with an inbuilt alert mechanism, in case any trolley is taken out of a ‘no airport zone’ area, it generates an alert message tipping off the location for necessary action which can then be taken to retrieve.
