This document discusses technology that connects travelers during their journeys. It describes GEIOS's products like GEIOSCONNECT, GEIOSMOBILE, and GEIOSIDENTITY which provide platforms and services for travelers. It also discusses using technology like passive cards and smartphones to facilitate traveler flow and management through services, tracking, and recommendations. Finally, it outlines GEIOS's work developing a transactional system using NFC cards, terminals, and a cloud platform to enable access and payments for travelers.

1. The connected destination
Travel Tech Con 2016
GEIOSCONNECT GEIOSMOBILE GEIOSIDENTITY GEIOSPULSE

2. Michael Frischkorn
1973 2001 2009
Born
20151994
Freelance Engineer
Co-Founder & CTO
eFonds Group
Co-Founder & CTO
HolidayInsider
Founder & CTO
GEIOS
Product & Technology

4. Made with in Bavaria
AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

5. Technology connecting travelers.
GEIOSCONNECT GEIOSMOBILE GEIOSIDENTITY GEIOSPULSE
White label web platform
for travelers
White label native
app for travelers
IoT based platform for
destination services
Dashboards and
analytics on travelers

6. Liquid lifestyle

7. Access

8. Liquid experiences

9. Create more memories

10. The
connected
destination

12. What things?

13. Alibaba

14. Hoeft & Wessel Group

15. Hochschwarzwald Tourismus GmbH

16. http://www.emotion-technologies.de/

17. San Francisco

18. Skidata / Oberstaufen Tourismus

19. Table Talk Technologies

20. http://www.cletech.eu/

21. ISO/IEC 14443 NFC is a
standard
Physics, frequency, initialization, Collision & Transmission
Protocol

22. Waiting crowds
http://www.mikelrodriguez.com/crowd-analysis/

23. Parking space
Univ. Prof. Dr. Roth - SIS/DSHS

24. Public WIFI
Loop21

25. Lightning sensor
Nowcast / University of Malta

26. Interfaces are
not standardized

27. API
HELL

28. RESTful, SOAP, XML
RPC, Flatfile, CSV,
legacy stuff

29. There will be no
standards.

30. Legacy systems

31. GEIOS

32. Systemtechnik GmbH

33. Politics

34. NIHS

35. Build an architecture
that can handle many
APIs and prevents you
from regression hell

36. Obstacles

37. Flow frequency

38. Network coverage
Sparrow

39. Power supply

40. Passive card vs. smartphone
Smartphone/wearable
Expensive - only part of travelers
own devices
No real branding
Energy - empty battery
Slow flow
App install needed
Only NFC - not for Apple right
now
2
Passive card
Cheap - 100% of travelers get one
Branding/souvenir
Passive / no energy problems
Fast guest flow possible
No install
Magnetic strips for legacy could be
combined
1

41. PLEEEEAAAAASE!

42. WHY?

43. 1.
Coming home
TV, Netflix, alarm, light color and dim, minibar, snacks,
temperature air and water, access

44. 2.
Traveler flow

45. http://www.businessinsider.com/this-heat-map-reveals-the-secret-to-ikeas-store-design-2014-1

46. www.swisscom.ch

47. Google maps

48. Google maps

49. GEIOS / Mapbox

50. GEIOS / Google maps / Mapbox

51. 3.
Traveler flow
management

52. Traveler data

53. High frequency traveler data
Markus Schmitt
male, age 46
dob: 04/11/1969
Sandra Schmitt
female, age 41
dob 02/01/1974
Julia Schmitt
female, age 8
dob 12/08/2007
Johanna Schmitt
female, age 6
dob 03/07/2009
GEIOS session POI checkin WIFI login Hotel Checkin / Checkout
07/05/2015 07/20/2015

54. Tripprints
Demographic
data
Accommodation
data
Season &
weather
In destination
data
Social
signals
Personal
recommendations
trip
budget

55. Insights growing over time
July 2016
Germany
March 2017
Italy
June 2017
Norway
December 2016
USA
November 2016
Switzerland

56. Network effects

57. Match travelers

58. Personalize tips
Online Offline
1 2

59. 4.
Service design

60. In the wild

61. Disney Corporation

62. Disney MagicBand
Disney Corporation

63. Disney MagicBand
Disney Corporation

64. https://learn.adafruit.com/magic-band-teardown/inside-magic-band

65. Three concurrent systems
13.56 MHz
passive near field
RFID
Access, Payment
Works for all guests
915 MHz
passive UHF RFID
Short range
positioning, e.g. waiting
lines
MagicBand users only
2.4 GHz
active radio
Every minute a ping,
100ft+ location tracking
MagicBand users only
1 2 3

66. Lower frustration

67. People spend more, if
you abstract them from
money

68. +8% per capita guest
spending

70. Physical device at the host
WIFIBluetooth
SAM
Modules
Relay
switch
Ethernet
USB
MCU
Flash
RAM
RGB
LED
BUZR
NFC
CPU
Antenna - 13,56MHz RFID
ISO/IEC 14443 A/B (proximity < 10cm)
ISO/IEC 15693 (proximity < 50cm)

71. Virtual reader
Hardwarevendorfirmware Embedded GEIOS application
Datastore
Business logic
Data processing
Session Management
Updates
Transactional
GEIOS Identity Protocol
MQTT
NFC protocoll
Traveler card or app
GEIOS Cloud
SSL/TLS TCP
connection

72. We built a transactional
layer on top of MQTT
GEIOS Identity Protocol
(GIP)

73. Physical card
EM4233
SmartMX
with DESFire
emulation
Antenna Antenna
ISO/IEC 14443 A/B
proximity < 4 inches
ISO/IEC 15693
proximity < 20 inches
1 2

74. Physical card

75. Card file system
Skidata
reserved
AXESS
reserved
Flexspace
shared
GEIOS
shared
GEIOS
reserved
Shared
Public
transport
reserved
SmartMXDESFire EM4233

76. 600,000
NFC cards
2
8,500
terminals
1
Up to 500,000 concurrent travelers
Next year

77. From prototype to reality

78. Don’t do hardware!

79. Reliability
+ Certifications
+ Mass production
+ Verification

80. Partner

81. Housing

84. Additional revenue for
the destination
management company

85. Growth of utilization for
service providers

86. 15% growth in
overnights

87. What is next?

88. Smombies

89. Robotics

90. https://dangerousthings.com/shop/xnt-ntag216-2x12mm-glass-tag/
Bio hacking

91. Internet of things

92. Internet of humans

93. Michael Frischkorn
mfr@geios.com
linkedin.com/in/frischi