Zoo follows children everywhere with Bluetooth
Children lose becomes in zoos or fun parks past time thanks to Bluetooth. A zoo in the Danish Aalborg has uses makes the first with a system that to love the mobile telephones of parents their children in the holes.
That lifted with so-called BodyTags, developed through the Danish tracking-specialist BlueTags. This are small Bluetooth-stations that with a clip at the clothing of children are to be affirmed. Reception stations, that have been divided about the to trace location, detecteren the children in their neighborhood and steer their location to a central data boss via a wireless local network.
Parents their mobile telephones register by the system and get to see then the location of their children within 20 seconds after a request per sms. The Danish zoo goes the system, the first of its child, from July use with 200 stations and 500 reception stations that a territory cover of 85,000 square meter. “We are very enthousiastic about the possibilities of BlueTags-system and in spite of that we the first be that the system in use take”, declares Henning Julin, manager of the zoo in Aalborg. “I expect that many of my colleagues with zoos and fun parks in the whole world with interest to this system look.”
“The system loves in the holes or a child an exit the location approaches and can the parents, the administrators and the protections personnel warn”, tells Godfather Lund, spokesman of BlueTags at socraweb. Lund gives closed that the first versions of the station easily are to be removed or are to be exchanged through naughty children. “Only the next version becomes a wrist tie that not to remove is without that an alarm goes down”, according to Lund.
Parents can according to the BlueTags-spokesman with this system relax and more enjoy the entertainment. Furthermore children get to go finds Lund the chance on exploration from in their own tempo.
Other positions consist moves of an optioneel sms-message, each turn as a child to someone else reception station. “The reach of as source the station as the reception station is at to fit”, says Lund. “We can till on two or three meters keep up where a child the reception territory enters, but also larger areas start and they let aboutlap the precision to increase.”
The price for the use of the tags is according to the spokesman of BlueTags to fix through the owners of the location, and can possible per sms be calculated as that applicable is. “The software in the system can at most 100,000 stations at the same time trace, but the present hardware can but approximately 2000 stations on. Next to recreation-locations, we aim with this solution also on airports and hospitals”, decision Lund.