For organisers
A network of anchors covers the site. Your festival-goers use it to find each other in the crowd, your responders to reach the casualty directly, and anyone in trouble to raise the alarm without having to speak.
A group that loses each other is an evening spoiled, and usually a trip to the information point. With the tag, everyone sees the direction and distance to their friends, with no network and no phone. It is the service the audience notices, and it runs on the same installation as the rest.
An alert carries a position accurate to roughly two metres. The responder is guided to the spot by the screen on their own tag, at night and through a packed crowd. That is minutes saved on every call-out, and a delay that becomes measurable.
One press on the 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 you already have.
The tag is handed out where you already hand something out: at the wristband desk, over the same counter, against the same deposit. It is one more step in a process that already exists.
The tags belonging to one group are paired in a few seconds at the gate, and returned on the way out. No account to create, no app to install, nothing to configure.
Two arrows to choose who to reach, one SOS button. There is nothing to explain beyond what fits on the slip handed over with the wristband.
The same anchor network takes the tags of security and medical staff. You add dispatch and team tracking when you decide to, with no new installation.
Several systems answer part of the need. The table below sets out what each one covers, including the point where Bermud is the most demanding.
| Capability | Bermud | Smartphone GPS app | Consumer beacons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accuracy in open ground | ≈ 1 m | ≈ 5 m | ≈ 5 m |
| Accuracy in a dense crowd | ≈ 2 m | 10 to 20 m | 10 to 50 m |
| Reliance on the mobile network | None | Total | None |
| Reliance on GPS | None | Total | Yes |
| Guide someone to a precise point | Yes | Degraded in a crowd | Degraded |
| Infrastructure to install | Yes, an anchor network | None | None |
When the crowd is dense, the GPS signal is harder to pick up, which costs accuracy. With Bermud anchors installed on site, the tags need neither 4G nor GPS. They stay reliable however many people are packed into the same place.
The coordinates and movement history of tag wearers are not stored by Bermud: they are available in real time only. The organiser remains the data controller, Bermud acts as a processor.
If you equip your teams, tracking the position of employees during their shift falls under employment law. It calls for a purpose limited to safety, information given to the people concerned, and consultation of employee representative bodies before deployment. We provide the material to put in front of them.
The installation complies with European decision 2024/1467, which governs the outdoor use of ultra-wideband. Tags transmit at around one thousandth of the power of a mobile phone, and far less often. We provide the figures and the standards behind them, IEEE 802.15.4z for the radio layer and ETSI EN 302 065 for European conformity, ready to put in front of the public or staff representatives.
An hour is enough to look at your site plan, estimate how many anchors it would take, and see what the system would change about your call-outs. The prototype is being built, there is nothing to sign.