Orange Solar Glocation Tent at Glastonbury
Orange pilots solar photovoltaic fabric and RFID technology in its solar concept tent at the Glastonbury festival in the UK. The tent can be located by its glow via text message or RFID tag. ...
... "The Concept Tent’s solar shell uses this technology to full effect with three directional glides which can be moved throughout the day to maximise its solar efficiency, capturing the optimum amount of energy which can to be used throughout the tent in a variety of new and exciting ways. To avoid festival-goers ever losing their tent, the Concept Tent would be fitted with innovative glo-cation technology. Glo-cation works by enabling campers’ mobile phones to identify their tent using either an SMS message or automatic active RFID technology (a longer range version of that used in London Underground Oyster cards); both would trigger a distinctive glow in the tent helping identify it from a distance. " ...Via Orange: Solar Concept Tent at Glastonbury