PBX to Launch Baggage Tracking System at Clinton National in LR
Innovate Arkansas client firm Passenger Baggage Xpress (PBX) has received an $18,000 grant from the Arkansas Development Finance Authority that will enable it to officially launch its baggage tracking system at Clinton National Airport in Little Rock.
The grant comes from ADFA's Risk Capital Matching Fund.
The Little Rock startup, from brothers Michael and Brandon Eason, is an ARK Challenge alum and a serial G60 participant and winner.
The Eason brothers have developed a system that enables airline travelers to track their checked luggage and eventually will use RFID and NFC to boost that tracking to real time.
Which is, in a word, awesome.
Thanks to the ADFA funding, PBX will officially launch its product at the Little Rock airport.
The Arkansas Small Business & Technology Development Center has worked with PBX, and its Rebecca Norman has more here on the imminent launch, data from which PBX will use to project operation costs at larger airports.
A sample:
PBX’s initial product consists of a permanent supplemental luggage tag and a secure, user-friendly mobile app. PBX tags are unique identifiers used by airline employees to contact passengers when their bags are lost in a fraction of the time it currently takes. The company’s tags are directly connected to over 450 airlines worldwide.
“When luggage is mishandled, lost, or misplaced, PBX members receive alerts through our mobile platform that provide them with the exact airline and employee contact information to locate their lost items. At PBX, we place the power of baggage recovery back in the hands of our customers,” Michael said.
In the future, PBX plans to insert Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) or Near Field Communication (NFC) technology into the tags “for real-time luggage tracking data for passengers,” he said.
Good luck, and keep up the great work, guys.