Hyderabad airport gets IoT-enabled Smart Trolleys

The entire fleet of 3000 baggage trolleys has been enabled with IoT, which will translate into substantial reduction in waiting time of passengers for baggage trolleys and will ensure availability in sufficient number in real time.

Hyderabad: In a significant step towards becoming a Smart Airport, the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here has introduced Internet of Things- enabled Smart Baggage Trolleys, becoming India’s first airport to deploy IoT for tracking and maintaining the availability of baggage trolleys for passengers in real time.

According to an official communiqué, RGIA has deployed the Long Range (LoRa) IoT platform for the Airport Baggage Trolley Project. The entire fleet of 3000 baggage trolleys has been enabled with IoT, which will translate into substantial reduction in waiting time of passengers for baggage trolleys and will ensure availability in sufficient number in real time. Trolley management and replenishment will be based on the requirement at various areas across the airport, officials said.

Smart Baggage Trolley management will address challenges of trolley retrieval and replenishment by locating trolleys at the right time and at the right spot. It also helps tackle theft of trolleys and empowers the airport to meet passenger requirements on a real time basis.

The Smart Trolley Management system has the capability to plan baggage trolleys according to the predictive analyses of estimated departure and arrival passenger loads, they said, adding that with an inbuilt alert mechanism, in case any trolley is taken out of a ‘no airport zone’ area, it generates an alert message tipping off the location for necessary action which can then be taken to retrieve.

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