RE: Re: RFID Human Implants - Occupancy Detection

["Brendan" <jbh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Remember being very impressed by a demo of this when I
visited the
O R Labs in Cambs back in the mid/late 80s.
Pity never taken on.
Same story for many of the very bright ideas that emanated
from
Cambs in those days (incl e.g. the 'Red Box' (mains
modulating
plug-n-play home network concept).

Brendan


-----Original Message-----
From: David Buckley [mailto:db@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 January 2005 19:55
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: RFID Human Implants - Occupancy
Detection




--- 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...








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