Steamboat Ski Resort using RFID Tag Bracelets for guests

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-05-2005/0003332083&EDATE=

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With the Steamboat MountainWatch location package, which costs as low as $25 for a family of four for a week's visit, each guest receives a Steamboat MountainWatch wristband, which combines a Texas Instruments 23mm passive, low frequency transponder and an RF Code Mantis(TM) series active RFID tag. The Steamboat MountainWatch product is offered free of charge to everyone under 16 years old who is enrolled in the Kids' Vacation Center, Steamboat Ski &
Snowboard School and KVC Child Care.
The Steamboat MountainWatch wristband communicates information, including a person's location, via radio signals to a series of RFID readers and makes the information accessible through the half dozen Steamboat MountainWatch touch screen kiosks situated throughout the resort. RF Code's TAVIS(TM) data management software collects and consolidates data from the active RFID tags, while SafeTzone's patented Real-Time Location Module draws associations among the passive and active data to identify and locate each member of a group.
While the active tag communicates a person's location, the passive RF tag automatically identifies visitors as they approach the touch screen kiosks and scan their wristbands, linking them to onscreen icons marking the individual location of any member of their family or group within the resort and resort base. The instant, real-time location of group members and amenities enables new levels of visibility and safety for groups and families. The system's coverage includes Gondola Square and the entire base of the mountain up to the Christie II & III lifts. At the top of the mountain, coverage includes all restaurants inside and outside, and the bottom and top of each lift.

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When I'm skiing w/ the family it is hard to keep tabs on who's where, cell phones don't work at most ski resorts, and if anyone needs something and doesn't have car keys.....


I like it.

(motorola and others)?

Some skiing friends of mine say they work pretty well, but I haven't tried them myself.

For finding someone who is lost in a snowbank, good idea. Not the rest of it.

It's the avalanches. There are quite a few out here a year. Rescue efforts cost big bucks, and have a high rate of deaths. So these would both make skiing a lot safer and keep local taxes down.

It's a good idea. :thumbsup:

But when they insist we need them embedded under our skin, well, than I say we draw the line.

right now. Oh no....don't have them inject it under your skin (yuck, too 'mark of the beast' like).....just have the vet tape it there. Nothing permanment, it'll just be there for 'good purposes' only. No one will E V E R get a chance to abuse it. <naive/off>

is any "glob" of snow a person is lying under.

These "watches" are intended to be worn while not skiing. That part, I don't like.

The reality underneath is this:



(apologies that I don't know how to reduce the pic size - the message is still the same large/small).

this is NOT photoshopped.. straight from the AP...Bless 'em:)

Look at how his ears are bent down. Looks painful, but it hasn't occurred to boy genius that MAYBE he has the headphones on wrong.

Best laugh I've had today! Thanks.
:rofl: