e-Paper Real-time Event Badges

2012年，Blendology推出了“oneTap”，这是一种有效的电子名片，可在活动中使用，只需轻敲两台设备即可交换信息。这是TSB资助的市场证明研究的结果。自那以来，我们创造了19万GB的收入，One Tap已经在100多个活动中使用，我们的客户包括英国国际贸易协会、Venturefest、创始人论坛、欧盟、EMAP。2015年我们有100多项新活动。事实上，我们所有的客户都表示，市场上有一种更复杂的产品，我们将其描述为电子纸实时徽章。此申请是为了获得GB 83,835对GB 139,725的概念验证授权，以确定生产这种徽章是否可行，以便在有100,000名代表参加的活动(大型展览等)上使用。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，可以编程为代表勾选，也可以预先编程为领取。该徽章将充当One Tap，但也能够连接到兼容的移动设备并同步到云。许多其他服务是可能的，同时它可以重复使用，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。我们只需要最低限度的基础设施，只需要我们的徽章和iPad，而且我们在没有互联网的情况下运营，并在可用时进行同步目前还没有直接替代我们提议的复杂的纸质徽章，这表明制造一种徽章既有机会也有挑战，可以供每年参加全球社交活动的10亿人使用。我们提出的概念可以用于其他行业，航空公司已经就行李标签、安检胸卡的建筑维修员、员工胸卡的企业、资金转移和医疗保健行业进行了接洽。

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.