Design and optimization of luggage tracking system on airport

Abstract

The loss or mishandling of luggage in airports is increasing nowadays, tremendously raising its associated costs. It is expected that the constant monitoring detects possible errors in a timely manner, allowing a proactive attitude when correcting this kind of situations. There are several devices in the market but all have some problems such as power consumption, location, portability, etc. The current research provides a novel idea to track the luggage in real time with the help of a microcontroller system, which is wearable and handy. Using wireless communication techniques the proposed system has been designed. Power consumption is the most important feature in the luggage tracking system. With the inclusion of accelerometer, the device consumes less power. The proposed system increases the monitoring detail when compared to current monitoring systems because it allows the individual tracking of luggage. It has also a web application to know about location of luggage and GSM module for the text application.