Boston's Logan International Airport has agreed to allow a pilot project funded by Boston Engineering and Inkode Corp. to demonstrate chipless RFID technology that tracks customers and their baggage from arrival to final destination.

Boston Engineering will utilize Vienna, Va.-based Inkode's CRIS (Chipless Remote Identification System) technology as the basis for the pilot program.

Dubbed SEATS, or Secure Environment for Airport Terminal Systems, the project is actually a collaboration that combines Inkode's passive, disposable wireless tracking device with a baggage tracking system developed by Boston Engineering.

The tracking system being developed by Boston Engineering tracks a passenger from the time they arrive at the airport and check into a self-service boarding pass kiosk, to the time they board an airplane (given that one doesn't generally deplane during flight, it's assumed the systems tracks an individual through to their final destination).

Baggage, tagged with the chipless RFID sticker, is simultaneously tagged.

Read the full story on eWEEK.com: Logan Airport to Demonstrate Baggage, Passenger RFID Tracking

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