Sports technology company uses RFID + video camera: capture your perfect figure
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Polish sports technology company Trickbox has deployed a Near Field Communication (NFC) RFID-based system provided by HADATAP in Poland’s Wakeboard Water Park (known as Wawawake) to monitor the time each tourist spends cycling in the park, and match visitors to photograph him or Her video. HADATAP uses JADAK’s SkyeTekSkyeModule NFC reader and its own cloud-based software to link the read data with ticketing and video material.
JADAK is a world-leading supplier of radio frequency identification (RFID), optical data acquisition and machine vision technologies. JADAK provides machine vision, RFID, barcode scanning, printing, and color and light measurement products and services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Wakeboarding is an extreme water sport that combines water skiing, skiing and surfing. The athlete uses a surfboard to surf while being towed by a rope connected to a motorboat or a closed circuit cable system. Wawawake is located in a lake near Warsaw, Poland. During the warmer months-usually from May to September-the park provides a place for water skiers to practice their skills jumping ramps and obstacles. Because it involves a lot of jumps and tricks, this sport is very suitable to be able to capture visitors frame by frame of video.
Samsung IP cameras automatically record each tourist’s performance in Wakeboarding extreme sports
Wakeboarding athletes like to watch their performance on these jumps, not only for fun, but also to evaluate their skills. Therefore, the park hopes to provide them with a way to watch such video clips during their visit.
Trickbox provides integrated technical solutions for sports parks like Wawawake. It started to develop the water park system this year and invited HADATAP to provide RFID readers and wristbands to identify tourists. HADATAP provided wristbands with integrated Smartrac NFC RFID tags, and installed JADAK SkyeModule RFID readers at the entrances and pavilions of the bridge. HADATAP’s cloud-based software analyzes the collected reading data, links it to billing and video, and forwards the information to Trickbox’s servers. The system was implemented in August 2016.
“RFID is used to link users to archived videos,” said Daniel Kamiński, chairman of the HADATAP board of directors.
Users can book and pay online first. Upon arrival at Wawawake, each tourist only needs to provide an ID card to get the RFID wristband associated with the booking. When visitors pass the bridge into the lake, they put their RFID wrists close to the RFID reader on the bridge, and the reader can read the information in the wrist, and then the software will start to track the time the individual is on the water, so that the use can be calculated accordingly condition.
Then they lined up on the bridge to use the Wakeboarding water skiing cycle, and high-speed ropes towed them along the water. The ID number encoded to the wristband tag is stored in the Trickbox software along with the participant’s information. As each visitor loops back and forth, multiple Samsung IP cameras automatically record his or her performance.
When the visitor finishes playing, just bring the RFID wrist close to another RFID reader. The system can then determine the time the tourist spends on the water and automatically deduct the fee.
The main challenge for this solution is the integration between the RFID system and the IP camera, Kamiński said. “We started close cooperation with video producers and opened the camera’s API to our system [应用程序编程接口], So that the participant’s RFID wristband tag ID is linked to the video material taken by the individual. This data is managed on HADATAP’s cloud-based server.
Visitors can later read the information in the RFID wristband through the reader installed in the kiosk in the rest area to access personal videos. When leaving the park, the visitor puts the wristband close to the reader/writer installed at the exit, so that the software can calculate the fee for the visitor.
Tourists jumping obstacles at Wawawake Extreme Water Sports Park
Visitors can also log in to the Trickbox website within seven days of leaving the park, and then use the ID number of the wristband to download, edit and share their videos via social media.
Luberecki pointed out that deploying RFID in water sports environments has some unique challenges. “This is a very new application area for RFID readers and wristband RFD tags,” he said. On the one hand, the humid environment brings challenges to the hardware. According to Luberecki, the wristband RFID tag must be waterproof and able to withstand the impact of gravity at high speeds or even when dropped.
Luberecki reports that Trickbox technology is well received by park visitors. “Since the first day they saw their super high-quality videos on site and at home, they were very excited.
For future installations, due to the long read range of UHF technology, HADATAP plans to use ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID technology instead of NFC to accelerate the reading of wristband data. Luberecki predicts that this use of NFC technology in conjunction with video cameras-shots that allow individuals to capture their sports performance-is a new technology trend.
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