RedTacton Personal Area Network

Wendy Beatty Dianne Brotherson Rachel Corron

Agenda
Overview

What is it? How does it work?

Potential

Applications

Gun Control Consumer

Viability

Competitive landscape Projections

What is RedTacton?

HAN Human Area Network the last meter Transmits data utilizing bodys electric field
The body becomes its own Ethernet cable

High speed up to 10 mbps Very secure Uses a transmitter and a receiver, or a transceiver, which provides both functions

How it works
Point to Point Network

Transceivers exchange information no server Optical properties of electro-optic crystal varies based on electric field

Data received using photonic electric field sensor combined with electro-optic crystal and laser light

Step by Step
Transmitting

in the field Receiving transceiver recognizes the change in the electric field Electro-optical crystal uses laser to convert and read the signal

transceiver creates a change

Security
Requires Less

physical contact

Must be wearing the transceiver and touching something else with a transceiver

potential for wireless interference and between other RedTacton devices Allows for encryption and authentication Programmable
You decide what to share with whom and what devices you communicate with

Caveats
No

military experience Not members of the NRA Only experience with the military and guns is from TV and movie exposure

Staged Adoption
2008 Must-do Develop

the technology

Staged Adoption
2009 May-do Develop

the technology for a high-end military weapon Viper tank missile

Staged Adoption
2010 May-do Develop

the technology for standard military weapon M-16

Staged Adoption
2011 May-do Develop

the technology for other military equipment Howitzer

Staged Adoption
2012 May-do Develop

the technology police forces

Staged Adoption
2020 May-do Develop

the technology guns sold in the U.S.

Other Applications
Medical

- insulin pump Consumer

Turnstile
General

Security

Swipe card

Competitive Viability

Power of Buyers v. Power of Suppliers

Power is with the device manufacturers What is a device?
Cell phones, PDAs Any device we wish to communicate with

Buyers may demand monetary benefit to include new technology

New technology may require significant design changes R&D still needed
Government, Military, or medical professionals

Competition
Bluetooth Zigbee IrDA UWB Skinplex Verichip

Obstacles
Time

& cost Needs to gain popularity to pull instead of push Widespread marking campaigns and education Not useful unless many people adopt it

Predictions
Medical

This area has the financial resources available for Research and Development and it also has the potential to be beneficial to a large percentage of the population.

Predictions
Military

If the military adopts this technology is it likely the public would never see it.
Consumer

Applications

Necessary funding for continued R&D does not make this a likely scenario in the next decade

Questions?