The new Terminal Area of the Madrid Barajas Airport will be equipped with an Automated Baggage Handling System (SATE) which will permit the processing of 16.500 suitcases per hour, and it will have a storage capacity of 2000 early check-in suitcases.
This is a baggage handling system which is easier and faster for you and more efficient and functional for the airport, since each baggage will be labelled with a bar code that will identify and categorize it so that it can then be recognized by optical instruments, with the surveillance of artificial vision, and taken automatically to the corresponding airplane.
The SATE will consists of nearly 92 Km of conveyor belts, of which some 42 km will move at high speed and be capable of transporting baggage at a speed over to 10 meters per second.
