Re: RFID Human Implants - Occupancy Detection

["David Buckley" <db@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "White, Peter" <peter.white@b...>
wrote:
> You could just buy 7 of them and stitch them into your pants.

Pulling two threads together here in a holistic sort of way

VNC, which Mr Doxey has just been pointed to in the '[OT] MAC - VNC
server type application' thread was part of the software developed for
the (then) Olivetti Research Labs Active Badge project.

Basically, everyone were a badge, which had a IR transmitter in it,
and the building was full of IR receivers.  There were also IR
receivers next to all the displays.  So, "The System" knew where
everyone was, all of the time.  So if a phone rings - any phone - its
for you - pick it up.  If you walk up to a display, it'll have your
stuff on it.  Thats why they did VNC.

You could even query where people were over the web...

Olivetti research labs got bought by AT&T, and the project has just
seemed to have evaporated.  A few years back I did some serious
research to try and track it down, and the only current commercial
active badge project is an American company who make the things to
track old folks round nursing homes...