System and method of providing location information of checked baggage

A method for deploying an application for notifying an end user of a location of baggage, comprising providing a computer infrastructure being operable to:

• maintain baggage information and contact information of the end user;
• read an RFID tag at predetermined locations, the RFID tag is encoded with the baggage information;
• and
• send the location of the baggage to the end user based on the location of the RFID tag and the read baggage information.

A system, comprising:

• an RFID tag encoded with baggage information;
• at least one RFID reader configured to read the encoded baggage information as it travels past a predetermined location;
• and
• at least one device to transmit a location of the baggage to an end user, as received from the RFID scanner.

A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having readable program code embodied in the medium, the computer program product includes at least one component to:

• maintain baggage information and contact information of the end user;
• read an RFID tag at predetermined locations, the RFID tag is encoded with the baggage information;
• and
• send the location of the baggage to the end user based on the location of the RFID tag and the read baggage information.