Delta Airlines introduces chips for smart luggage

Delta Airlines announced it will be releasing a new system that uses RFID chips placed on passengers' bags to track their location, NBC News is reporting. The airline hopes that this will help solve the problem of lost baggage, which costs airlines thousands of dollars per year across the globe. The system will leverage RFID tags connected to each bag that will be scanned by Delta workers, and notifications of the bag’s whereabouts will be pushed to the bag owner via a mobile application. RFID technology has been around for decades and has long been used to track parcels