Datalogic has announced new partnerships for its automated baggage handling projects in newly built airport terminals all over the world. These new projects account for over 60 state-of-the art reading stations with more reading stations to be implemented during the next months. A speaker from Datalogic rounds up why so many turned towards Datalogic products: The solution is extremely easy to install, operate and maintain. It guarantees the highest reading rates in every operating condition. In addition, the system integrates state-of-the-art diagnostic and control tools for real time performance monitoring and surveillance. In addition, all the components of the baggage handling solution are extremely resistant and are able to operate in any environment - from extreme temperatures of heat and cold to high humidity and dust levels. One of these components is the DS8100A industrial bar code reader, a high performance linear laser reader designed to fulfill the sorting needs in the Transportation & Logistics sector, which is also ideal for airport applications.

Each reading station consists of 8 omni-directional scanners which, combined with powerful software algorithms, can correctly scan luggage tags, whatever their orientation. By using the Packtrack patented technology, traceability of each individual piece of luggage is ensured as the correct code assignment is guaranteed, even when items are extremely close to one another. This makes the BHS solution perfectly suitable for state of the art sorting technologies. As an example, in automatic identification and baggage sorting systems with industrial bar code readers approx. 4,000 luggage labels are read per hour.