The 2009 Chicago Dragon Boat Race for literacy is a multi-cultural event where people from all walks of life gather at the Ping Tom Memorial Park to enjoy races, music, fun and friends. This race was the perfect opportunity for us to test our SmartEvents™ application.

Lygase placed a series of tags that were color coded for men, women, kids and seniors and incentivized the crowd to wear the tags for a chance to win a cash prize of US $50. This allowed Lygase to be able to track time that each attendee had spent in various locations of the park that the sensor technology was setup. There were a number of readers (antenna) placed around the park, as people walked through the park their signal was being picked up by the reader that was within read range (30ft). Areas that were monitored included; entrance, registration, canopy, river-walk, playground, etc.

The data that we collected from our field test showed that we were accurately able to determine the dwell time of all wearing tags. It was interesting to analyze the data to determine the number of people at different times of the day who were under the canopy listening to the band, how long the kids and moms stayed at the playground and time spent at all the other locations. With the data that we obtained, we were able to generate meaningful analytic reports in the form of pie charts, bar charts and table charts.

Since then, we have added to our product offering and have plans to do our first SmartEvent™ live in Orlando, FL for a large trade show in April 2010!