Smart Suitcase 1.0 times, look at startups, traditional companies

Mobile internet era, "smart" in a step-by-step transformation of daily life in various fields: Intelligent security, smart home, smart bicycles, intelligent weight scales, smart watches ... Now the wave of intelligent travel bags is coming.

In the past, traditional luggage has always been emphasizing its "durability" characteristics, in the design of the same, there is no special outstanding characteristics. Now, mobile interconnection "intelligent" Application Mode began to enter the field of travel luggage, and the luggage launched a functional change.

The first to detonate smart bags is a Indiegogo on the bluesmart of the luggage box. The user can lock and unlock the box at any time on the mobile phone app, and if the box is separated from a certain distance, the box is automatically locked and alerted to the mobile phone; The automatic positioning function allows the user to master the position of the box at any time; built-in digital scale for users to check for excess baggage The built-in lithium battery can charge two electronic devices at the same time and so on. This product once exposed to attract many netizens attention, and finally got more than 2 million of dollars of public financing, far exceeding the target amount of 2,731%.

And another bluesmart similar to the smart suitcase Trunkster Kickstarter also made a good record. No zipper design, GPS positioning, mobile charging power and can be directly on the box to show the number of built-in electronic scale still won the favor of many consumers, access to 1.39 million of dollars in public funding.

Of course, in this intelligent bag of the tide, the traditional luggage brand is not willing to fall behind. It is reported that Samsonite will introduce new luggage production line Geotrakr, built by Lugloc provided by the cellular baggage tracking system. Another well-known U.S. suitcase maker Andiamo will also introduce a smart suitcase with Wi-Fi hotspots, rechargeable batteries and other features.

In addition, telecom operators, Airlines joined the Battle of intelligent luggage. Rimowa, a German baggage maker, has launched a smart suitcase Bag2Go with Airbus and Deutsche Telekom. The sensor allows the user to keep track of where the baggage is in the Airbus cargo compartment. The suitcase will be available next year. US telecoms giant At&t is also developing smart bags for location tracking, and samples of the bags are shown on YouTube.

In addition to the overall production design of intelligent bags, some companies have introduced a small independent device positioning paid services, users can directly placed the equipment in the original traditional suitcase, can track the baggage location. For example, Lugloc provides positioning devices with Bluetooth and GSM networks, where users can send location requests to view baggage locations on mobile apps. Trakdot is similar to Lugloc, using a GSM network device to "talk" the luggage and mobile phone app. Of course, from Take-off to landing, these devices are automatically closed, the aircraft back to the ground will automatically open the positioning.

It can be seen that in this wave of intelligence, the vast majority of intelligent luggage function design is to solve the user in the travel frequently problems: baggage loss, baggage positioning, overweight, electronic equipment charging. Of course, when Bluesmart detonated the Indiegogo, the next batch of smart bags appeared as "followers." In addition to more functional optimization, more lightweight and durable material, basically did not jump out of the imaginary space described by Bluesmart, there is no more subversive, more intelligent travel luggage products. Therefore, intelligent bags of higher intelligent upgrade, perhaps still need more breakthroughs in technology and exploration.