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Taylor Swift Taps IoT for Concerts
- Network World, Tuesday, October 20, 2015 11:33 AM
If you go to a Taylor Swift concert, you could have a front row seat to an Internet of Things use case. On Swift’s 1989 Tour that is criss-crossing the globe, concert-goers receive a wristband upon entrance to the venue. At some point during the show it magically lights up, coordinated to songs from the queen of pop music. What’s really going on here? As this Slate article explains, its powered by a company named PixMob, which specializes in wireless LED technology. The wristbands use infrared transmitters to control the LEDs on the wristbands (that’s the same infrared that’s used by remote controls to change the channel on your cable box). The PixMob LEDs can also be controlled by RFIDs.
