location – Internet of Things https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot Hans Scharler is an Internet of Things pioneer. He writes about IoT and ThingSpeak IoT platform features. Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:29:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 ThingSpeak Used to Track Luggage for Travel Internet of Things Applications https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2015/01/16/thingspeak-used-to-track-luggage-for-travel-internet-of-things-applications/?s_tid=feedtopost https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2015/01/16/thingspeak-used-to-track-luggage-for-travel-internet-of-things-applications/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2015 23:01:41 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=1378

Chris Forsberg created an example Internet of Things project to track luggage using ThingSpeak, an Adafruit GSM Module, and an Arduino. He built a simple system to send data to ThingSpeak, such as... read more >>

]]> Chris Forsberg created an example Internet of Things project to track luggage using ThingSpeak, an Adafruit GSM Module, and an Arduino. He built a simple system to send data to ThingSpeak, such as latitude, longitude, and status data. ThingSpeak exposes a data channel API for any system like this to being able to store data and then process the data.

ThingSpeak Travel IoT Project

The idea is that it is frustrating waiting for luggage at the airport and wondering where it is and why it is not on the baggage carousel. With this project, you can track luggage from start to finish. The advantages are not only for the traveler, the airlines could track luggage as well and get quality statistics for each airport. And, the base system has many applications outside of travel such as the Automotive Industry.

Chris explains the project really well on his blog and with a YouTube video.

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