Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Active RFID Tent Glocation by Orange

Orange pilots a number of technologies, including RFID and photovoltaics, in its solar concept tent at the Glastonbury festival in the UK. The tent can be located by its glow, ...

RFID tech sets tent aglow

... "To avoid festival-goers ever losing their tent, the Concept Tent would be fitted with innovative glo-cation technology. Glo-cation works by enabling campers’ mobile phones to identify their tent using either an SMS message or automatic active RFID technology (a longer range version of that used in London Underground Oyster cards); both would trigger a distinctive glow in the tent helping identify it from a distance. " ...


Via Orange: Glastonbury Solar Concept Tent

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