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Thanks to an RFID-based tracking system, parents can drop off their kids at an indoor playground, then view them in real time at kiosks located throughout the store. Feb. 11, 2008—Kuwait retailer MS Retail is offering an RFID-based tracking system at its new children’s superstore, Baroue, to enable parents to monitor their kids as they play in the store’s playground. The system is provided by Mideast systems integrator TagStone using Ubisense RFID readers, tags and cameras and Ubisense’s Spatial Location Platform software.
Baroue is a 6,500-square-meter (70,000-square-foot) store selling 20,000 products for children, including toys, clothing and infant accessories. Dubbed as the store that offers “extravagance for kids,” it is designed to encourage families to take their time when visiting. Baroue features a juice and coffee bar, a photo booth and workshops, as well as a playground featuring a giant sea serpent kids can climb on, straight and spiral slides, a “magical” harp that plays without strings, a sand pit and a jungle gym. At the playground, parents can leave their children with staff members who provide childcare. Parents can then monitor their kids from one of five information terminals located around the store, says Hergen Meyer, TagStone’s business development manager.
At the entrance to the Sea Serpent playground, each child is assigned a wristband in the form of a plush toy lion. Inside the wristband, according to Charles Sturman, Ubisense’s marketing VP, is a Ubisense ultra-wideband (UWB) battery-powered RFID tag. The parents are given a ticket with a number corresponding to that child’s unique ID number. As a child plays, the wristband transmits a stream of extremely short 6-to-8 GHz signals encoded with that child’s ID number. The signal is picked up by several of the 20 RFID readers deployed throughout the playground. The ID number and transmission strength are forwarded to the store’s back-end system via an Ethernet connection. Ubisense software interprets the data as it is captured, then calculates the child’s location within 5 centimeters (2 inches) by measuring the tag’s elevation and angle of transmission, as well as the transmission’s time distance of arrival (TDOA) at several readers. As parents shop, they can stop at one of the store’s information kiosks and input the ticket’s ID number. A screen displays a map of the playground with a small dot indicating their child’s exact playground location. The parents can then press another prompt to display digital images of the child at play. Sturman says the use of ultra-wideband RFID is essential to pinpointing a child’s location within a few centimeters. “Ultra wideband is used for sending a pulse with a very short signal,” he says. “With that short pulse, you can measure how long it took to receive that signal,” and determine the location with great accuracy.
Previously, TagStone piloted a UWB system at an exhibit hall, locating employees as they moved around a large room. However, Meyer notes, this is the first use of a UWB RFID people-tracking system with cameras. Similar systems have been deployed for logistics tracking (see RFID Helps Cordes & Simon Document Shipments). According to Sturman, Baroue’s child-tracking system has not had any glitches since operation began. “The only problem has been availability,” he says. The playground’s capacity is limited because the store has a total of only 200 RFID wristbands (at a cost of about $80 apiece), which means that no more than 200 kids can use the playground at any given time. As a result, children and parents queue up for the playground in very large numbers, sometimes causing a delay. |
I’m Thinking to get for me Wii Console and Wii Fit Bundle . I liked this guy :
This guy made me love this Wii Fit i saw it on amazon [link]
I want to change the operating system on my Asus Eee 900 PC but because It doesn’t have CD Rom I’m Searching for away to use flash memory instead and i found this video on youtube [link]
References:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13257/Boot-Windows-XP-from-a-USB-flash-drive
http://www.techmixer.com/install-windows-vista-from-bootable-usb-flash-memory-drive/
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm
Finaly I found USB charger in hawaly because I was asking alot for the usb charger for my Nokia N95 in kuwait like feature “ALMOSTAQBAL” souq sharq branch and he don’t know what I’m talking about !
Any way today finaly i found it in hawaly bin khaldon street shop called XP Mobile Centre he is in front of babtain (casio)
Tel:2618686 ,2616868 ,2615757
Fax: 2615757
Email: info@xpcenter.com
There is article about nokia usb charger [link]
update : I bought it for 3 KD
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I just bought new one because I need one and i saw it before first time in best buy in hawally and i loved it . Second time in the meeting with Intel company they showed us . But now I need to decide weather I install Linux or Windows but mostly I will install Windows because I need to use my WNet GPRS connection.
And All Thanks for TWOFORTYEIGHTAM for showing me where can I buy the best one in his post [link] . I bought the same one he bought except the charges was about 165.170 KD (608.40 USD) with 3 days delivery plus 10.5 KD for aramex shop and ship so total 178.9 KD .
Note: The exchange rate from NBK visa .
It is cool product .
you can connect your home TV, Security Cams (DVR) to your ADSL internet and you need minimum upload 256 KBPS this mean if you are using Qualitynet or UnitedNetwork you must subscribe with at least 512 KBPS because the upload speed is half the download speed . (check it here)
- How many computers can the SlingPlayer software be installed on?
- What do I need to get started? (connection speed mention also)
- Can I use the Slingbox with a wireless router?
- Can the Slingbox record shows to my computer’s hard drive?
- Supported Devices
All can be answer in FAQ
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I also the user reviews on amazon it have average of 
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TagStone and Ubisense collaborated to create an accurate, reliable and secure solution for MS Retail’s flagship Baroue, the regions first one-stop-shop for children and parents, enabling parents to monitor their children while they play. Built upon Ubisense’s proven precision RTLS system, parents are able to monitor their children in a playground area and can check the whereabouts and activities of at info kiosks around the store.
Opened on the 20th of September 2007 at the newly developed Avenues Mall, Kuwait – Baroue features a giant Sea Serpent playground the length of four London busses, and is over 40ft high. The playground features straight and spiral slides, a magical harp, sand pit and jungle gym.
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