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Accu-Sort has been scanning airline bags for over 20 years with approximately 1.5 billion bags per year scanned in over 25 major North American Airports. Additionally there are over 500 million bags per year scanned in major airports in Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East. This has made Accu-Sort the leader in baggage identification with 3 out of every 4 bags being scanned by an Accu-Sort ASA.
Accu-Sort gives you the choice of two different technologies, laser and RFID, to move and track this baggage quickly and efficiently. Our scanning arrays are fully compliant and conform to IATA requirements.
When airports reach the size where more than 10 flights must be processed at one terminal in less than two hours they need to automate in order to handle the bags without holding up flights. When 40 flights an hour must be processed, automation is a must.
With an automatic system, bags are tagged with labels from an on-demand printer that produces a bar code for each passenger bag. The bar code tag is a strip that can be affixed to the bag handle. The bar code, in a standard set by the International Air Transport Association (I.A.T.A.), includes the flight number and destination information. Bags are carried by a conveyor system from the curb or counter to a sortation system. A tunnel array, typically consisting of eight Accu-Sort scanners, surrounds the conveyor on all sides: top, both sides, underneath, front and back.
The scanners are aimed to scan every possible place where there might be a tag, even on the bottom of the bag. To make it even more accurate, the tag has duplicate bar codes printed at right angles to each other.
When the scanner(s) read the bar code the data is transmitted to the sort controller, a lookup table is accessed, and the bag is diverted to the proper lane for the destination flight.
Large airports may process as many as 80-100 flights an hour making the read rate vitally important. Any bag that doesn't get read by the scanners is diverted to a manual encode point where an individual can hand enter the data at a rate of 10 to 12 bags per minute. Systems with good printing and loading discipline can expect read rates in the high nineties.
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