Response time
The alert arrives with the identity, the zone and the position. The tag of the person dispatched then guides them by direction and distance. The time spent working out who is free and where shrinks accordingly.
Positioning tag · Festivals
A tag that shows where your friends are, and calls for help.
It is worn with the festival wristband. You pick who you want to reach, and the screen gives you a direction and a distance. If something goes wrong, pressing the SOS button sends your position to the medical post, accurate to roughly two metres.
- Target accuracy
- ≈ 2 m
- Smartphone
- Not required
- Mobile network
- Not required
- Target battery life
- The festival
01For festival-goers
Find someone without having to describe where you are.
On a site holding tens of thousands of people, the mobile network usually saturates on the first evening. The tag relies on neither the mobile network, nor GPS, nor your phone. It talks directly to the anchors installed across the site.
02Emergency call
One button, and your position goes out with the alert.
Someone collapses in the pit, someone falls at the campsite, a situation turns bad. A long press on the SOS button sends out an alert transmission. The site anchors receive it, compute the tag position, and pass the alert to the control room with the wearer’s identity and zone.
- Nothing to dial, nothing to describe, and no dependency on the mobile network.
- The medical teams wear the same tag. The responder’s own screen shows the direction and distance to the person who raised the alert, at night and through a packed crowd.
- In SOS mode the tag transmits with a reinforced signal, detectable in worse propagation conditions than a normal transmission.
- For as long as the alert is active, the tag transmits at a fast rate. Its position refreshes continuously, so the guidance follows the wearer if they move.
- The screen confirms to the wearer that the alert has been received and that a team is on the way.
03For organisers
Cut the delay between an alert and the arrival of help.
The same anchor network that serves festival-goers gives the safety team the position of its staff and of every alert. On an incident, the control room sends the closest person and guides them to the exact spot.
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A discreet press on the SOS button is enough: nothing to say, nothing to describe, no phone to take out. The alert carries the position, and a trained member of the team is guided to the person. It comes on top of the dedicated staff and safe spaces already in place.
Traceability and reporting
Response times, staffing by zone, history of alerts and positions. Enough to document an incident for your insurer or the licensing authority, and to support the follow-up given to a report.
04Going further
05What we are asking for
The project is at prototype stage. Your opinion matters now.
We are building the tag and the anchors. Before going further, we want to hear from people who run real events, and from festival-goers who have already lost their group on a Saturday night.
- 01Does this answer a real gap, or a problem you already solve some other way?
- 02What is missing before it could be used on your site or at your event?
- 03On what terms would you accept a trial on one edition?