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Published: Sep 16, 2005 01:40 PM
Thu - June 26, 2003
Phone call of the wild
Aalborg Zoo in Denmark is to pioneer a
system that uses parents' mobile phones to track their young.
A
Danish zoo will soon pioneer a
system to track child visitors using Bluetooth-enabled
tags that
clip to children's
clothing:
[B]ase stations scattered around the site detect nearby offspring and relay their location to a central database via wireless LAN. Parents register their mobiles with the system, and can get an update on their progeny's position within 20 seconds of sending a query text message.
The zoo will deploy the system -- the first of its kind in the world -- in July, with 200 tags and 50 access points covering the 85,000 square metre attraction ..."The system will spot when a child is near an exit from the park, and can alert the parents, the administrators and the park's security," Peter Lund, vice president of business development at BlueTags, told ZDNet UK ...
... Other features include an optional automatic SMS sent every time a child moved from zone to zone.
This is a great example of using technology to solve an apparent real-world problem. Still, one wonders why parents can't simply keep track of their children in the first place? I pity the emotions of the first parent whose petulant child, outside line of sight, removes his tag and tosses it into the lion pit.
[B]ase stations scattered around the site detect nearby offspring and relay their location to a central database via wireless LAN. Parents register their mobiles with the system, and can get an update on their progeny's position within 20 seconds of sending a query text message.
The zoo will deploy the system -- the first of its kind in the world -- in July, with 200 tags and 50 access points covering the 85,000 square metre attraction ..."The system will spot when a child is near an exit from the park, and can alert the parents, the administrators and the park's security," Peter Lund, vice president of business development at BlueTags, told ZDNet UK ...
... Other features include an optional automatic SMS sent every time a child moved from zone to zone.
This is a great example of using technology to solve an apparent real-world problem. Still, one wonders why parents can't simply keep track of their children in the first place? I pity the emotions of the first parent whose petulant child, outside line of sight, removes his tag and tosses it into the lion pit.