This publication has been discontinued on February 25, 2013.
Introduction
Abstract
This is the first in-depth research into the rapid increase in use of RFID in
the air industry.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an extremely powerful enabling
technology in airports and aircraft, serving to improve security against
criminal attack, safety against general hazards, efficiency, error prevention
and data capture and to remove tedious tasks. It can even create new earning
streams where it makes tolling feasible without causing congestion and where
new airport "touch and go" cards offer new paid services without delays. RFID
creates competitive advantage in many ways and in many locations. Managers in
the air industry and their suppliers are in danger of being left behind if
they are ignorant of the successes and new possibilities of using RFID to
improve the air industry. This unique report therefore looks at the broad
sweep of work in this area, and gives market sizes, paybacks and forecasts.
In particular, we assess the following applications:
Airline baggage tagging
Reduced wastage in food trolleys
Cargo tracking: improving operations
Parts
Freight: enabling the IAT e-freight initiative
The potential amount that RFID baggage tagging can save amounts to $760
million a year and is therefore worthwhile tackling. In some cases the saving
has been very high - in Hong Kong airport, for example, the average cost of
handling bags has gone from $7 per bag to $4 - a huge saving. By early 2008,
more than 30 airports are using/trialling RFID for baggage handling. The major
roll-out at Hong Kong is beginning to be done elsewhere - including now at
Milan airport.
Paybacks from RFID in the air industry are typically in the satisfactory 1-2
years range but some paybacks of only months have been reported particularly
where new earning streams are created. RFID has been most lucrative when it
has been used to change the way of doing business.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1.1. Airports today
1.1.2. Many challenges
1.2. What is RFID?
1.2.1. RFID is in many parts of the modern airport already
1.2.2. Everyday RFID - car clickers, contactless cards
1.3. Airport challenges and RFID solutions
1.4. Why RFID is pervading airports
2. LEARNING FROM OTHER INDUSTRIES THAT ARE AHEAD IN CERTAIN RESPECTS
2.1. Retailing
2.2. Postal and courier services
2.3. Military
2.4. Healthcare
2.5. Transport
3. RELEVANT NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN RFID
3.1. EPC and the Internet of Things
3.2. Cleverer tags
3.2.1. Ultra small tags from Thailand, Malaysia and Japan
3.2.2. UHF tags with advanced antennas
3.2.3. HF tags are most popular and are no longer limited to one meter
range
5.5.4. Boeing, Real Time Locating System (RTLS), item level, USA
5.5.5. Delta Airlines, aircraft parts - item level, USA
5.5.6. FedEx, aircraft parts - item level, USA
6. MARKET FORECASTS 2008 - 2018
APPENDIX 1: FURTHER READING FROM IDTECHEX
APPENDIX 2: INTRODUCTION TO RFID
APPENDIX 3: EPCGLOBAL AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS
TABLES
4.1. Forecasts for RFID tagged passports 2008-2018
5.1. Typical RFID requirements for air cargo
6.1. The spend in millions of dollars on RFID systems, including
tags, immediate infrastructure, software and services exclusively for the
civil air industry 2008-2018
6.2. Number in millions of global sales of RFID baggage tags
2008-2018
6.3. Unit price in cents of RFID baggage tags 2008-2018
6.4. The value in millions of dollars on RFID baggage tags 2008-2018
6.5. RFID in Airports and Airlines versus total RFID Market US$
millions
6.6. RFID in Airports and Airlines versus total RFID Market US$
millions
FIGURES
1.1. Distribution of RFID case studies in the civil aviation
industry
3.1. Symbol Technology dual antenna RFID label at UHF. It is
about10 centimeters across
3.2. UPM Raflatac "Flag tag" that pops up to look in both directions
3.3. KSW Microtec Taurus UHF tag with both short (controlled range)
and long range antennas. It is about ten centimeters across
3.4. HF labels used in Maruetsu trials in Japan
3.5. Centre - UPM Raflatac UHF label and right - Tagsys HF label
for small items, compared with a postage stamp. Both have a range of a few
centimeters
3.6. Experimental HF printed RFID tags from Poly IC of Germany
4.1. What part of the problem are we solving?
4.2. Driving adoption
4.3. The potential applications and timelines for Ubiquitous Sensor
Networks in Korea
4.4. An ASK RFID tag embedded in a passport
4.5. Forecasts for RFID tagged passports 2008-2018
5.1. McCarran International Airport
5.2. Current RFID insert for McCarran baggage from Symbol
Technologies
5.3. Insertion tag coding
5.4. The geometry of insertion in the standard bag tag format
5.5. Shrouded reading area on carousel
5.6. Current RFID insert for Jacksonville baggage from Symbol
Technologies
5.7. Smartag HF RFID inserts
5.8. Overview of ASTREC
5.9. Overview of the hands Free Travel trial
5.10. Overview of technical research
5.11. SCS tags from the Dura-label range. Length of tag is just 46mm
5.12. Card range booster unit
5.13. Vehicle Smartcard Reader/Keypad
5.14. Smartcard Programmer
5.15. Open flow interrogation of tagged vehicles at Los Angeles
International Airport, using overhead readers
5.16. ID Systems units in action
5.17. RFID tagged baggage carrying vehicles
5.18. Hong Kong International Airport
5.19. Eureka active tag
5.20. Operators identify the types of trolley and their content
5.21. Operators identify the types of trolley and their content
5.22. RFID tagging from FKI Logistex
5.23. OTI is a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based
smart card solutions
5.24. Rockwell Collins Sample Bar Coded Nameplate
5.25. Engine turbine blade direct part marking
5.26. Boeing and Airbus simplified view of Automated Identification
5.27. Automated identification and data capture in practice
5.28. Broad airline interest for this RFID program
5.29. RFID labels used in the trials
5.30. Portable data terminal used in the trials
5.31. Air data inertial reference unit RFID tagged in the trials
5.32. Flap unit duplex actuator unit RFID tagged in the trials
5.33. UHF RFID label used in the trials
5.34. AeroScout WiFi RTLS tags
5.35. The RFID labels used in this work
5.36. The RFID test bed
5.37. RFID annunciator control kit tagged with RFID label in the
trials
5.38. Smoke detector RFID tagged in the trials
5.39. Auxiliary hydraulic pump RFID tagged in the trials
6.1. The spend in millions of dollars on RFID systems, including
tags, immediate infrastructure, software and services exclusively for the
civil air industry 2008-2018
6.2. Number in millions of global sales of RFID baggage tags
2008-2018
6.3. Unit price in cents of RFID baggage tags 2008-2018
6.4. The value in millions of dollars on RFID baggage tags 2008-2018
6.5. Percentage spend on RFID systems including tags exclusively
for the civil air industry by application in 2008
6.6. Percentage spend on RFID systems including tags exclusively
for the civil air industry by application in 2017
