Music festivals are a summer staple; from August 2nd-August 3rd thousands of music lovers converged in South El Monte, CA to take part in the HARD Summer 2014 Music Festival. GoToTags partnered with our good friends at Access Event Solutions to help deploy over 12,000 NFC wristbands that made the attendee experience simple, streamlined and fun.
Smart clothes are heading your way courtesy of Swedish clothing designer, Four Levent. The company has launched a new line of Swedish designed shirts for men with wearable NFC tech built into the cuff using NFC laundry tokens from GoToTags.
NFC tags have been used for transportation applications in the past, primarily for ticketing purposes. Now NFC tags are going a bit farther and becoming part of the transportation system itself, in this case with commercial trains.
GoToTags teamed up with Sunrise Identity, Sprint and NXP to bring an NFC-based virtual shopping experience to a major US consumer coffee company.
Every year the University of Michigan hosts MHacks, the world’s largest 36-hour hackathon.With 1,700 students registered, MHacks 2013 was set to have record-breaking hackathon attendance. U of M reached out to GoToTags for NFC silicone wristbands that attendees could wear throughout the duration of the hackathon.
CBS and SXSW featured a Steven King horror television show; talk about a combination! GoToTags teamed up with mobilehere to provide NFC and QR enabled cards which were handed out to thousands of SXSW 2013 attendees.
Alaska Airlines prototyped the use of NFC tags and NFC readers for admittance into their Seattle boardroom. Typically when you enter the boardroom you must show your ID and boarding pass to an agent to verify entrance qualifications.
In October 2012 GoToTags and Access Pass & Design teamed up to bring even more excitement to the annual Backwash Reno Craft Brewing Competition. Every year, a roomful of craft brewers (generally fathers and sons) get together to show off their best beers and compete for two prizes: Most Popular and Brewer’s Choice.
A passionate and innovative customer of GoToTags is using NFC cards to create agricultural tracking systems, the process to aid in tree identification within Costa Rican rainforests. Agricultural tracking systems are a critical part of preserving the rainforests; you can’t manage what you can’t measure.
GoToTags attended WIMA USA 2011, an event highlighting consumer trends and evolving RFID technologies. We wanted to showcase the potential of NFC by turning the conference into a physical world scavenger hunt and mobile game.