electronic wrist bands

[guypjfreak]

Ive not been to Boom but my son goes every year and was telling me about there new bands that tag you in and out ..also you can only go out a certain amount of times .

when do you reckon glasto will have theses and what are your thoughts on them .....the only thing that i dont like about this idea is as i NEVER take a festi band off they may get a bit shall we say chunky on my wrist lol

 

 

[razoid]

Only go in a certain amount of times? Thats crazy! Everyone will have to walk in single file soon

[guypjfreak]

yea sounds mad...apperently theres a thingymebob in the band and if you try to go out of the festi more than x amount of times the band say NO lol

def stop swapping bands and getting people in tho aggg

[sophlamb]

At Primavera you get a normal fabric style band and also a little card that you have to scan in. I think this is probably because you don't stay on site and there is a last entry time each night. I love it because I like to keep the cards as I take my wristbands off as soon as I'm home, but I'm sure some people must have lost the cards during the festival!

Edited April 8, 2016 by sophlamb

[Cammers]

Rock Werchter has a similar system although I'm not aware of restrictions.

The band itself is fabric but with a little plastic sleeve slotted in to it that you have to scan on your way in and out (the security get very annoyed if you don't scan!). I presume it is used for monitoring numbers within the arena which maximises safety and helps the festival manage staffing numbers on the fly.

They also have little totems outside or close to all the stages and if you scan in, it will link to your facebook and post where you are and who you are about to see. I personally don't like that idea but I guess it's just the festival's method of catering for the self glorifying, social media addicts who can't spend one weekend without a status update.

[russycarps]

1 minute ago, Cammers said:

They also have little totems outside or close to all the stages and if you scan in, it will link to your facebook and post where you are and who you are about to see. I personally don't like that idea but I guess it's just the festival's method of catering for the self glorifying, social media addicts who can't spend one weekend without a status update.

is it April 1st???

[Spindles]

It's all an act Russy.  We know you livetweet the whole festival, your instagram gets 200 pics an hour and you have a tractor battery at the tent to recharge your various smartphones.

Edited April 8, 2016 by Spindles
I hear voices.

[parsonjack]

Aren't the 'Locals' wristbands already fitted with an electronic tag to swipe in/out?

[brettredmayne]

It was mentioned before that glastonbury looked into this with cashless payments but the festival Gladly never went through with it.

Sure download tried it once and it was a disaster.

[Spindles]

It would fuck over a lot of traders to go cashless at Glastonbury, particularly in the Green fields.

[DeanoL]

I can see them introducing RFID bands but purely for tracking movement- the amount of insight you could get into the logistics side of things could be huge. And Michael seems quite in to that sort of thing.

[sassy2012]

I was working with the wristband team at Boom last year and no there isn't a limit on how many times you can leave/re enter. The chip holds info of the ticket holder to stop ticket fraud. You also know exactly how many people are on site at any one time that's it

[jparx]

3 hours ago, Cammers said:

Rock Werchter has a similar system although I'm not aware of restrictions.

The band itself is fabric but with a little plastic sleeve slotted in to it that you have to scan on your way in and out (the security get very annoyed if you don't scan!). I presume it is used for monitoring numbers within the arena which maximises safety and helps the festival manage staffing numbers on the fly.

They also have little totems outside or close to all the stages and if you scan in, it will link to your facebook and post where you are and who you are about to see. I personally don't like that idea but I guess it's just the festival's method of catering for the self glorifying, social media addicts who can't spend one weekend without a status update.

Oh my god. That literally sent a shiver down my spine. 

[Pbird81]

1 hour ago, jparx said:

Oh my god. That literally sent a shiver down my spine. 

Anything that automatically posts to social media would be terrifying:

"Pbird81 is at the Cider bus"

"Pbird81 is still at the Cider bus"

"Pbird 81 is still at the Cider bus"

"Pbird81 is skanking badly [vine link]"

"Pbird81 is doing Ukelele Kareoke [vine link}"

[Flysheet]

Download did it for cashless buying and no one could load them up, meaning they couldn't eat or drink for bloody hours!

[russycarps]

2 minutes ago, Flysheet said:

Download did it for cashless buying and no one could load them up, meaning they couldn't eat or drink for bloody hours!

Yeah I imagine beating the shit out of people on the dancefloor is thirsty work too!

 

[Thevorpalblade]

Lollapaloosa Berlin had cashless last year. Awful. The wristband chip is credited first.

Step 1. Go to bar...

Ask barman 'how much credit is left'.

Decide if you got funds.

No... then go away and top up electronically (if there is a signal), or top up with cash at one of only 2 cash tills.

Return to bar, buy drinks and then you're supposed to remember balance. Or return to step 1.

Unspent monies can only be reclaimed several days after the festival has finished. Not before. It's just a scam (yes another one) to profiteer from punters.

[balti-pie]

1 hour ago, russycarps said:

Yeah I imagine beating the shit out of people on the dancefloor is thirsty work too!

 

Knobhead 

[Thevorpalblade]

I haven't heard that one. Is it better or worse than Murder on the Dancefloor courtesy of Sophie Ellis-Bexter.

(I wonder if she would've expected a name-check here).

[stuartbert two hats]

4 hours ago, parsonjack said:

Aren't the 'Locals' wristbands already fitted with an electronic tag to swipe in/out?

Which locals?

 

[parsonjack]

2 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Which locals?

 

Villagers I think......

[stuartbert two hats]

I expect it'll happen eventually, but Glastonbury is behind the curve on these new fangled technology things for a few reasons:

• The size - there is a lot of geographical area to cover with network connectivity
• The scale - at peak, there are a lot of people coming in. If they rely on this tech and they can't let anyone in for a couple of hours, there will be huuuge queues.
• Limited Benefits - Glastonbury really doesn't care about Facebook, limited number of in/out or any other daft things. It's not a day festival, it's a five day marathon.  All they care about is making sure people who have paid get in and nobody else.  
• Manpower- Despite the (fairly true) protestations that Michael makes that the money is spread very thin, there is cash around. Glastonbury has a large headcount and isn't forced to look at technological efficiencies in order to make the festival viable.  They can afford to wait until the technologies are well proven before jumping in.  They just don't have to.  Glastonbury has plenty of places make cuts before they would have to risk the entire entry process.

Personally, I think we're 5-10 years away from wireless technologies being stable enough for them to make the plunge;

[barcelonista1899]

I certainly didn't see any electronic villager wristbands last year.

The only bit of technology I heard they were trialling last year was some sort of pin-pointing locations on site with a code- like GPS co-ordinates but more accurate... no idea on the ins and outs of it though. 

As I think has been mentioned on here before,  the current method works because there is no reliance on a network or anything, simply manpower. The 3 part ticket (wristband,ticket and pass out) system whilst a bit of a pain works on the most part. 

 

[mandolin]

Didn't they try some sort of an easy pass-out wrist band last year?  Seem to remember hearing something about it for Worthy View residents.  Wasn't electronic but stopped the need for the 3 part ticket system.  Wonder if they'll expand that this year.

[parsonjack]

9 minutes ago, barcelonista1899 said:

I certainly didn't see any electronic villager wristbands last year.

 

Ok I may be mistaken but there was def some other type of wristband for fast entry.....at Gate B there was a separate lane which I stood in until the security guy told me I didn't have the correct type of band.....he said they had a chip in them and folks going through appeared to be simply beeping in.....