Sticker tags on Suitcases may soon be a thing of the past. Rimowa, Airbus and T-Systems have combined to introduce a new Smart Suitcase technology by the name of Bag2go. These Suitcases, with the electronics inside, would be tracked with a smartphone app, which was demonstrated at the ITB Travel Trade Show in Berlin. The bar code that is necessary for identifying these Suitcases at airports was also shown in the app. The app allows travellers to know where their Suitcase is at all times, which could lead to a reduction in the number of lost bags. Bags containing the product could hit the market by the end of the year. The price of a Smart Suitcase would be about 20 per cent higher than a comparable ‘dumb suitcase’.
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