Project Description
Luggage Tracking System
An IOT integrated solution for luggage tracking and management for high-end luxury hotels, resulting in faster and accurate retrieval of guests’ luggage during the check-in process.
The customer is a 5-star luxury hotel based in Singapore. The hotel offers gorgeously appointed rooms and suites, museum quality art collection and an elevated Club Lounge experience with panoramic views of the city. The hotel has been recognized with numerous awards for being the gold standard of hospitality.
Category
IOT, Mobile, Web
Timeline
2 Months
Industry
Hotel
Technology
Java, HTML5, REACT, PHP, Figma, Docker, JIRA
Challenge
The customer already had a BPM system but was quite expensive and time-taking to customise along with very limited integration capabilities with various other systems. This was slowing them down from achieving their digital transformation goals as required for improved operational productivity and efficiency.
The challenge was to find a cost effective enterprise solution that supports quick turn-around, cloud ready, secured and can be integrated with various other systems of Ncell.
Solution
Drop Positioning Systems – Singapore, our partner company had proprietary e-tags aka BTRE tags. Together, we developed an integrated solution that connected BTRE tags attached to luggages with web and mobile applications for simplified tracking and retrieval of guests’ luggage information and location.
During the check-in process, a new paper barcode (p-tag) is printed and one of the e-tag is attached to the guest’s luggage. The respective information is updated in the web based luggage tracking system, the p-tag is provided to the guest and the bellman moves the luggage to the storage area.
In the storage location, Base Stations are installed. These Base Stations are installed in multiple areas of a hotel where the luggage coverage is to be made. Now, At the time the guest needs to check-in the room, the guest gives the p-tag to the bellboy. The bellboy scans the paper tag in the system. The scanned paper tag detects the electronic tag and sends a flash and beep signal to the storage location. The luggage with that scanned QR code tag lights up and vibrates to alert the bellman. That way, the bellman can easily locate the respective luggage in the storage area and move it to the guest room.
This integrated IOT and Software solution solved the problem of luggage retrieval process from the storage area, thereby improving customer satisfaction during the check-in process.
