Other Receiver Shapes
The mechanism is already explained on the previous pages.
The difference to the message receiver:
We have them in two different shapes (square and rectangular) right now and
we can create them in a lot of shapes and sizes.
Common to all:
They forward the message to a transceiver station also using the 2.4GHz band but not in W-LAN mode
since this requires too much energy.
The transceiver station forwards the messages to your local network using W-LAN
and there you can connect it to your order processing system.
You can also forward the message to the PointerNet where it is automatically
forwarded to the sender's Smart Phone.
There a message pops-up (the App is already paired with the pointer) ands asks for confirmation which
the PointerNet sends back to you automatically.
If you only want to receive information, e.g. the sender wants to drop his business card (VCF) during a fair,
then there is no need for such a confirmation (double opt in).
QR Codes are Past!
Forget scanning a QR code which is placed next to a product or next to a picture in the museum or
somewhere else.
Simply direct the pointer towards our receivers and click. A newly generated message ID is dropped.
The owner (more so his computer) of the receiver can react like sending information back to you
(again text, sound or videos) and the item is added to the shopping cart on your mobile phone.
Or he may ask you for purchase confirmation.
He can bring the item(s) to the boarding gate (e.g. on Chicago Airport, where this is usual) or deliver them to your
home address or any address currently selected within the PointerNet or you may pick-up the items at the exit.
All this also works at night and is fully automated.
The PointerNet can do the payment processing for the retailer and you decide which payment information
you have entered within the PointerNet for your Pointer.
Since we use ultra low power and ultra short data transfers (light is pretty fast) the receivers
and their internal rechargeable battery (USB Type C for charging and control but not for the message transfer)
work for around one month or so, depending on how much people click. But the more they click, the
higher is the willingness for recharging from the owners :-)
Though if you like, you can also use a USB Type C cable for permanent power.
To be able to point at the receivers (only the small ones, the larger ones like at the exit of the parking house you can hit without much trouble)
you can enable the red visible beam in message sending mode.
This is automatically suppressed in gaming/presentation mode.
For payment processing we could cooperate with PayPal or Adyen
or anybody else except Wirecard :-)
At the KfW Bank's booth at Expo 2000 the "IntelliTags" (predecessor of our new message receivers) were in use
to recognize the visitor having clicked and the visitor has got an SMS.
At that time, they have been wired but the rest worked exactly as described here with the exception of the SMS which we would no more use :-)
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