Radio Frequency Identification Technology has begun to surge over the past few years. RFID technology allows companies to improve real-time visibility of their inventory, track works in progress, and monitor shipping and receiving operations. As the demand of RFID increases, so does the demand for innovative ideas and implementations of the technology to make everyday tasks more efficient and to save companies money.

With the given potential in RFID, the group has chosen to focus its senior design project on a baggage tracking system for use in the airline industry. Successful deployment of RFID technology has the potential to save airline companies millions of dollars in resources and man-hours currently used to recover missing packages and compensate affected customers. The system the group shall create will track the baggage in a real-time network and notify the appropriate employees in the event that baggage has been routed incorrectly.

The projects main aims are to design and develop a real-time network, server, and management software that will use RFID technology to track all of the baggage present in an airline as well as have an early warning system to detect luggage that may have been misplaced.