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TECHNOLOGY

New Screening and Tracking
Technologies Make for Safer Airways
Baggage handling systems are entering the future as Miami International
employs a fleet of robots to increase screening efficiency and airports
elsewhere bring radio waves and lasers to their operations.
By Walker Jaroch

Photo courtesy of Daifuku Airport Technologies

A MIT moves along it's
designated path.

M

iami International Airport welcomed a slew of new employees
last September, though not one
of them will require a W-2. The
new crew is made up of 102 Mobile Inspection Tables (MIT) and is part of the airport's
design-build project for the new South and
Central Terminal checked baggage system,
which was awarded to Daifuku Airport
Technologies in 2017.
The newly constructed, three-level
Checked Bag Inspection System (CBIS)
Building, used to house screening equipment and TSA personnel, went live in July
of 2019. The CBIS Building is home to the
Checked Baggage Reconciliation Area
(CBRA) and the 102 MITs - making Miami
International home to not only the largest
installation of MITs, but also the largest
automated guided vehicle (AGV) airport
industry application in the world. Cur-

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rently, Daifuku is in the process of tying
in the South and Central Terminals into the
new building, with work anticipated to be
completed this year and the entire project
costing $324 million.
"The remaining airlines in concourses
F, G, H and J are transitioning to the new
system through December 2020, when
approximately 50 total airlines will be
using the new system and the former South
Terminal system can be demolished," says
Greg Chin, communications and digital
marketing director for Miami-Dade Aviation Department.
In addition to the MITs, the Central
Terminal received a new baggage handling system (BHS) to replace the airport's
older stand-alone systems, with manual
screening at the ticketing and make-up
level areas. The South Terminal's BHS was
revised and expanded to provide increased
capacity and the latest explosive detection
system (EDS) technology. The Central
Terminal's BHS sports a total conveyor
count of 904 with 11 ticket counter lines.
The South Terminal's system has 1,331
conveyors with 10 ticket counter lines and
three curbside lines.
"The project scope includes the replacement of the entire in-line checked bag
screening system for South Terminal and
installation of a new checked bag screening
system and automated sortation system for
Central Terminal," Chin says.
"We're completely replacing the existing system for the Central Terminal," Tim
Hipp, Daifuku's project manager at MIA,
describes. "Essentially, they had ticket
counters going down to individual makeup
units, instead of large scale sortation or
inline screening. So, we are replacing the



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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Ground_Support_October_2020

Business Buzz
What We Can Learn from Others in Aircraft Refueling
Green Growth
Agile Passenger Handling in the Age of COVID
Engineer the Risk Out of the Operation
New Screening and Tracking Technologies Make for Safer Airways
Connected at the Gate
Product Hangar
Editor’s Note
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Ground_Support_October_2020 - What We Can Learn from Others in Aircraft Refueling
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Ground_Support_October_2020 - New Screening and Tracking Technologies Make for Safer Airways
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