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Currently, Siemens is building the world’s most modern baggage sorting system for Beijing Capital International Airport. The system can transport luggage at a speed of 11 meters per second, sorting and transporting more than 19,000 luggage per hour. The baggage sorting system takes less than 25 minutes to transport a piece of baggage from the check-in counter to the plane parked at the farthest point. The facility will be put into operation in the spring of 2008, before the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
After the completion of the new terminal, Beijing Capital International Airport will become one of the largest airports in the world-with an annual passenger throughput of 60 million passengers, an annual cargo throughput of 1.8 million tons, and annual aircraft movements of 500,000. The new terminal building is magnificent, like a dragon in Chinese mythology. “Leader” is the main body of the terminal building, which has 330 check-in counters and a domestic terminal. The MRT train transports passengers from the “Dragon Body” to the international terminal at the back end.
Although invisible to passengers, this baggage sorting system built by Siemens Industrial Systems and Technical Services Group and located under the terminal building has made an important contribution to Beijing Capital Airport’s realization of two aircraft taking off and landing per minute. The system is one of the largest and fastest baggage sorting systems in the world, with a conveyor belt of approximately 50 kilometers and a maximum speed of 40 kilometers per hour. Baggage will pass through a distance of 2.5 kilometers between the domestic and international terminals and be transported smoothly under the feet of passengers.
In order to ensure that the luggage does not fall off the conveyor belt during high-speed transmission, the luggage will be transported through a conveyor box equipped with an RFID chip. This chip can process baggage owner and destination data in less than one second, and then send the baggage to the right place through the baggage sorting system.
Siemens has fully tested the system software on Germany’s most complex baggage transportation facility. The facility is located in Siemens Falls Simulated Airport-Siemens Airport Center. This test allows Siemens experts to minimize the risk of system failure before the system is officially installed. The successful test means that the system will complete the preliminary acceptance at Beijing Capital International Airport in July.
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