e-Paper Real-time Event Badges

2012年，Blendology推出了“oneTap”，这是一种电子名片，用于通过点击两个设备来交换信息。这是TSB资助的市场研究证明的结果。从那时起，我们已经产生了19万英镑的收入，oneTap已经在100多个活动中使用，我们的客户包括，UKTI，VentureFest，创始人论坛，欧盟，EMAP。2015年，我们举办了100多场新活动。几乎所有客户都表示，更复杂的产品（我们将其描述为电子纸实时徽章）存在市场。该申请是为了概念验证授权83，835英镑，其中139，725英镑的成本是为了看看是否可以生产这样的徽章，可以在有100场活动的情况下使用，000名代表（主要展览等）该徽章将在一个10厘米乘8厘米的电子纸屏幕上显示代表的姓名和组织，并可以编程为代表团的姓名或预先编程收集。该徽章将作为一个点击，但也能够连接到兼容的移动的设备和同步到云。许多其他服务也是可能的，同时可重复使用，它节省了纸张和名片。我们是一家数据公司，通过连接人们如何建立网络的点，我们将能够提供其他服务，增加活动对代表和组织者的价值。我们只需要最少的基础设施，只有我们的徽章和iPad，我们在没有互联网和同步的情况下运作，当它可用时。目前，没有直接替代我们所提议的纸质徽章的复杂性，这表明了创造一种徽章的机会和挑战，这种徽章可以被每年参加世界各地网络活动的10亿人使用。我们提出的概念可以用于其他行业，已经被航空公司用于行李标签，安全徽章的建筑维护人员，员工徽章的公司，资金转移和医疗保健行业。

In 2012 Blendology launched “oneTap” effectively an electronic business card for use atevents where information is exchanged simply by tapping two devices together. This was as aresult of a Proof of Market study funded by the TSB.Since then we have generated £190K in revenue, oneTap has been used at over 100 events,our customers include, UKTI, VentureFest, Founder Forum, European Union, EMAP. In 2015we have over 100 new events.Virtually all our customers have indicated there is a market for a much more sophisticatedproduct which we are describing as an e-paper real-time badge.This application is for a Proof of Concept grant of £83,835 towards the £139,725 cost ofseeing if is feasible to produce such a badge that could be used at events where there are100,000 delegates (major exhibitions etc.) The badge would display the delegates name andorganisation on a 10cm by 8cm e-paper screen and could be programmed as the delegatechecks in or pre-programmed to be collected. The badge would act as oneTap but also be ableto connect to compatible mobile devices and sync to the cloud. Many other services arepossible, whilst being re-usable it saves on paper and business cards.We are a data company, by connecting the dots of how people network we will be able tooffer other services, increasing the value of events to delegates and organisers. We needminimal infrastructure just our badges and iPads, and we operate with out internet and syncwhen it is availableCurrently there is no direct alternative to the paper badge with the sophistication we areproposing, indicating both the opportunity and the challenge of creating a badge that could beused by the 1 billion people that annually attend networking events around the world. Ourproposed concept could be used in other industries, already been approached by an airline forluggage tags, building maintainers for security badges, corporates for badging employees,transferring of money, and healthcare industry.