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Aug 3, 2024, 4:22:07 PM8/3/24

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What is a luggage tracker? A luggage tracker is a small electronic device that you place in your luggage and connect via bluetooth to your mobile phone. It reports its location to your phone as long as the tracker and your phone are within bluetooth range. When you are out of Bluetooth range but are connected to the Internet, with luck, the system can still work.

AirTags are the most widely known tracker that people use for their luggage, but they only work with iPhones. Android users have many alternatives, and in this article, I will review the Tile Mate which is compatible with both Android and iPhone.

No doubt you have heard about the chaos at the airports and the horror stories of lost luggage. Many travelers have turned to technology to help take some of the anxiety out of checking luggage. While I recommend only using carry-on during these unprecedented times (here are some great tips for getting everything you need into a carry-on bag), those who cannot avoid checking bags can use a tile luggage tracker and other electronic tracking devices.

The Tile Mate luggage tracker and the AirTag both use mobile phones connected to the internet that are within Bluetooth range to report their location to you when you are out of Bluetooth range to it.

Security concerns have popped up around these devices, but most have been when they were used by creepy people to track other people. So far, none have arisen around the usage of these devices to track one's luggage. If anything, the stories for this usage have been largely positive in helping travelers find their lost or stolen luggage. The connections between the device and your phone are encrypted, so that adds a layer of security for users.

Next, I had to find a good hiding spot where a passing iPhone or Tile user might come into Bluetooth range of my devices so that they, and I, could be found. To minimize the chance that I would be waiting forever for a Tile user to appear, I went to the busiest spot in Canada to conduct my test. For those who want to add it to your list of random Toronto facts, the intersection of Yonge and Dundas Streets is the busiest intersection in Canada and where I hoped would encounter at least one Tile user before sunset.

The airport is really far away from central Istanbul and traffic is quite congested in the city, so this gave me lots of time to think about all the ways that the airline could lose my luggage. While I could see my AirTag during the drive (my driver likely had an iPhone), my Tile was last seen at the hotel. This was to be expected as there are many more iPhones around than Tile users.

I never did see an updated location for my Tile again while I was in Turkiye, however, my AirTag was consistently showing its changing location in the airport, which was reassuring. There was one point when my suitcase appeared to stop at a Burger King in the food court for a Whopper, but otherwise it followed a predictable route.

I calmed myself, turned on my Bluetooth, and started scanning for my AirTag by walking around the areas near the luggage belt and around the piles of orphaned suitcases. Finally, on the opposite end of the conveyor belt, my AirTag started to point me in a direction.

This is why I travel with carry-on luggage only whenever possible, and why airlines are being criticized. While there were announcements identifying which belt was assigned to our flight, they really should have notified passengers that there was an overly energetic member of staff who was quickly scooping up everyone's luggage and piling it randomly throughout the terminal. If not for my AirTag and Tile, I would have easily waited another half hour for the luggage to appear, and then it would probably have taken another hour or two to sift through the hundreds of suitcases piled in the terminal.

Given the horror stories I'd been hearing about airport chaos and missing luggage, plus the fact that my suitcase had gone AWOL for 3 days on my last pre-pandemic trip, I was keen to do whatever I could to try to keep tabs on my bag this time around. As an Android user, I chose the Tile Mate. It worked exactly as King described, with the added bonus that it allowed me to anonymously thank the unknown person whose phone helped locate my suitcase. It wasn't lost, it just took a while to appear on the conveyer belt, but there was a degree of comfort in knowing that it was nearby, so I could relax and just wait for it to come to me. I loved it and will use it on every trip now, especially since I almost always check a bag.

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The trackers come with a free phone app and tiles to place on the items you want to track. (They come with a hole to attach them to a keyring, but otherwise, you need to buy a pack of adhesive to affix the tiles to surfaces like a checkbook.)

Roff Tile Mate Wide Additive is a cement-based tile grout to enhance its performance and durability.
Roff Tile Mate Wide Additive is a polymer emulsion that is added to the Roff Cementitious Tile Grout to improve the performance and durability of the tile grout. It gives improved flexibility, strength, and water and stain resistance that is suitable for grouting wider joints between different types of ceramic tile, glazed & porcelain tiles, vitrified & fully vitrified tiles, natural stones, large format tiles, and glass mosaic tiles. You can use this product for domestic as well as commercial application and on wider tile joints up to 6 mm.

Roff Tile Mate Wide Additive is a polymer emulsion that is added to the Roff Cementitious Tile Grout to improve the performance and durability of the tile grout. It gives improved flexibility, strength, and water and stain resistance that is suitable for grouting wider joints between different types of ceramic tile, glazed & porcelain tiles, vitrified & fully vitrified tiles, natural stones, large format tiles, and glass mosaic tiles. You can use this product for domestic as well as commercial application and on wider tile joints up to 6 mm.

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Tile Mate, which we are releasing today, is a smart location device. Just like Tile Slim, which we introduced a few weeks ago, Tile Mate works together with the Tile app and community to help you find the things that matter most when you need them most.

When we first started shipping Tile Original two years ago, we assumed people would use it to find their keys. Well, 6 million Tiles and lots of letters from users later, we learned people misplace lots of other things, too (like, say, jackets?), and they want more Tiles in more shapes and sizes.

We spent a lot of time listening to our users and researching the possibilities, and we decided to create two new Tiles: one that was small and had a tiny hole that would allow it to hook onto almost anything, and one that was skinny enough to fit into tight spaces.