- Here is my summarization of the UbER - Badge I learn from its homepage.



- UbER - Badge is a platform to develop powerful platform for developing new application in person to person event interaction.

- The design of UbER - Badge takes from various successful badges made by MIT Media Lab.
- 1997's Thinking Tags.
- 1998's Meme Tag.


- The UbER - Badge has IR and RF connection.
- This badge will be used to explore multihop "viral" message paging and passing.
- There is a gradient based people locater.
- Also passive accumulation of interest of the badge wearer.

- This badge is equipped by multiple communication channels.
- This badge is equipped with a radio transceiver for random access and broadcast communication.
- The IR (infrared) is used for line of sight detection.


- The badge is equipped with microphone.
- The badge also has decent volatile memory to log activity.
- More over this badge is easily to be hacked because it has a modular circuit.

- The display of this badge is meant to be seen from several meters away.
- The design of the badge should be as ubiquitous as possible to that the wearer can focus on the conversation and not into the technological aspect of the badge itself.

- The display element can be independently addressed to allow to present information such as these
- Graph.
- Simple alpha numeric.
- Simple graphical structure.




- This badge uses Texas Instrument micro controller.

- There is this chip for RF communications.

- There is also component to do IR communications.

- Additional/sensory modules.
- 3 ways navigator switch.
- Audio input.
- Audio output.
- DataFlash memory up to 256 MB.
- LCD.
- Microphone.
- Motor vibrator.
- RS232 for data acquisition.
- Stack connection (I think this is made to connect to their measurement unit).

- The applications of UbER - Badge.
- Analytic of social networking means to create something like networked diagram for people in social meeting, ....
- Formation of affinity groups means to track an individual and then that individual's group so that the clustering within the community can be known.
- Location of individuals means to track individuals (like last time they are spotted by the badge).
- Viral message passing means to transfer message from badge to badge until they are arrived at their destination.

- The applications of UbER - Badge.
- As a wearable electronics.
- Real time display of social interaction.
- Real time information visualizations.
- Storing contacts.
./20161106-2306-cet-state-of-the-art-10-uber-badge-21.pdf
./20161106-2306-cet-state-of-the-art-10-uber-badge-22.ppt
- UbER - Badge presentation.
./20161106-2306-cet-state-of-the-art-10-uber-badge-23.pdf
- UbER - Badge official research paper.
./20161106-2306-cet-state-of-the-art-10-uber-badge-24.pdf
- Developer guide for UbER - Badge.
- As you can see within the document the price (at that time) for just the micro controller is around 99 US Dollars.
./20161106-2306-cet-state-of-the-art-10-uber-badge-25.pdf
- UbER - Badge project proposal.