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

Security

Requires physical contact

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

Less 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?