Trakdot luggage tracker

[elbarto]

Looks like it might be a handy thing to have. Operating costs look reasonable to.

CES 2013 | Trakdot | Gadget Can Track Your Checked In Luggage

 

[simongr]

Interesting. Also interesting that it only goes dormant once the aircraft hits 185km/h - which means it is actually on during take off...

A more locallised solution might be these: StickNFind- Bluetooth Powered ultra small Location Stickers | Indiegogo

It is a bluetooth sticker that at least would let you know if your bags are on the carousel or if someone was walking off with them...

 

[samh004]

Interesting. Also interesting that it only goes dormant once the aircraft hits 185km/h - which means it is actually on during take off...

A more locallised solution might be these: StickNFind- Bluetooth Powered ultra small Location Stickers | Indiegogo

It is a bluetooth sticker that at least would let you know if your bags are on the carousel or if someone was walking off with them...

I'm tempted... but don't usually have a problem finding luggage or things in my house (touch wood).

 

[Fruitcake]

Interesting. Also interesting that it only goes dormant once the aircraft hits 185km/h - which means it is actually on during take off...

Is that actually a (legal) problem? I can't find any restrictions about transmitting devices in checked baggage, and I don't think any individual carrier conditions of carriage prohibit it (probably because no-one has thought of it).

 

[samh004]

Is that actually a (legal) problem? I can't find any restrictions about transmitting devices in checked baggage, and I don't think any individual carrier conditions of carriage prohibit it (probably because no-one has thought of it).

On most safety cards there is a blurb about radio transmitters and/or receivers not being allowed to be used at any time during flights, along with (these days) phones that don't have a flight mode capability also not being allowed to be used at all. As the device essentially receives and transmits data all the time (and must have to if it can figure out when it's going slow enough), it can't be allowed?

 

[AVC]

Your phone basically transmits and receives all the time, and there's no rule against having a mobile phone in checked baggage is there?

The trouble with the bluetooth stickers is that once someone HAS walked off with your bag, it's already out of range.

This item looks reasonably priced. Can you strap them to your children too?

 

[orangepeel]

Anyone bought one of these?
appears they have started shipping these units...

 

[eric2011]

Can you strap them to your children too?

And once they have stopped transmitting then you know it is safe to come out from hiding.

 

[eric2011]

On most safety cards there is a blurb about radio transmitters and/or receivers not being allowed to be used at any time during flights, along with (these days) phones that don't have a flight mode capability also not being allowed to be used at all. As the device essentially receives and transmits data all the time (and must have to if it can figure out when it's going slow enough), it can't be allowed?

I would have thought that when it goes dormant at 185kph or during take off in other words then it stops transmitting and would not be a safety issue.

 

[asg29e]

I would have thought that when it goes dormant at 185kph or during take off in other words then it stops transmitting and would not be a safety issue.

That's all very well, but back to the point made by samh004, if it is in hibernation, how does it know that it has eventually slowed down below 185kph so that it can wake up again? 24hr lockout maybe?

 

[oz_mark]

That's all very well, but back to the point made by samh004, if it is in hibernation, how does it know that it has eventually slowed down below 185kph so that it can wake up again? 24hr lockout maybe?

Dormant doesn't mean off. Probably just goes into flight mode. ...

 

[drewbles]

I like being a guinea pig. Just ordered one for work