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Alternative to GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is sought for online tracking application

Country of Origin: Spain
Reference Number: TRES20180131001
Publication Date: 8 February 2018

Summary

A Spanish (Catalan) company comercializing an innovative solution for running races management seeks a solution to decrease its GSM costs and make their product more competitive. Their timing technology currently relies on GSM and they are looking for decreasing the costs using a reliable technology to provide their customers a more competitive tool. They are looking for a commercial agreement with technical assistance or a technical agreement with a company able to provide a more accurate tool.

Description

A Catalan company located in Barcelona is currently offering a global solution to manage races providing an online platform for inscriptions, results and live tracking. Participants detection is based on Standard NFC (Near Field Communication) capable smartphones or RFID  ( radio frequency identification) detectors. Each runner wears a NFC/RFID tag allowing tracking and generating the final ranking of the race. These NFC/RFID wearable detectors need to be connected to internet to send data. Currently they use GSM network (Global System for Mobile Communications) but they would like to find a more accurate technology to avoid unneeded data ( plans, calls), overcome fleets managements issues and decrease costs.
The catalan company is not looking for deploying its own network but using existing solutions to allow data comunications between detectors and internet. They are looking for a comercial agreement with technical assistance with a company able to provide an existing device easy to adapt to their needs. They are open to a technical cooperation agreement with an device provider company able to design an accurate solution matching their needs.

Expertise sought

The catalan company is looking for a technology to provide its clients a more accurate way to track race participants. They are interested in reliable detectors and sensors able to provide tracking and timing datas cheaper than the currently used GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) network.
The company should be able to provide the device matching the catalan company needs in a short term delivery.

Requested partner

The partner sought is a device provider or designer able to provide a more competitive solution than the currently used  GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) for time tracking. 

Tha catalan company is open to a commercial agreement with technical assistance if the products is already on the market and need some changes to match the final customer needs.

They are open to a technical cooperation agreement if the the developement of an accurate solution recquires a short time development.

Cooperation offer is closed for requests