Touchatag

Touchatag

Touchatag (previously TikiTag[1]) is an RFID service for consumers, application developers and operators/enterprises created by Alcatel-Lucent. Consumers can use RFID tags to trigger what touchatag calls Applications, which can include opening a webpage, sending a text message, shutting down the computer, or running a custom application created through the software's API, via the application developer network. Touchatag applications are also compatible with NFC enabled phones like the Nokia 6212.[2][3] TikiTag was launched as an Open Beta on October 1, 2008.[4][5] And it was rebranded to touchatag on February 15, 2009.[6] Touchatag also sells RFID hardware, like a starter package with 1 USB RFID reader and 10 RFID tags (stickers), for which the client software is currently compatible with Windows XP and Vista, along with Mac OS X 10.4 and up.[7] Touchatag is currently carried by Amazon.com, ThinkGeek, Firebox.com and getDigital.de along with Touchatag's own Online Store.[8] Touchatag also markets their products' underlying technology for enterprise and operator solutions. Touchatag announced an agreement with Belgacom PingPing on jointly developing the contactless market and announced a commercial pilot with Accor Services.[9]

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Service

Touchatag's core offering is the touchatag service, based on the "application correlation service" and allows tag, reader and application management. For consumers, the web interface allows to link RFID tags (and 2D barcode tags, more precisely QR Code) to applications. Application developers can use the correlation API to use the ACS functionalities to create contactless applications.[10] For businesses, this ACS is extended with an RFID/NFC tag and reader catalogue, and applications like loyalty, interactive advertising and couponing.[11]

Hardware

The reader provided is an ACS 122U Tag Reader, from Advanced Card Systems.[12] The tags shipped with the reader are MiFare Ultralight tags.[12]

Software support

Official clients

Touchatag hardware is supported by its makers on Microsoft Windows and MacOS X platforms, and requires registration on the website to work. An unsupported application is also available for Linux platforms.[13] Like the MacOS X application, the Linux application uses PCSC-Lite for hardware access.

Unofficial clients

  • TagEventor is an open-source client from the Autelic association that works on Linux platforms, and does not use the web service from touchatag. It uses the PCSC-Lite daemon and can be run in foreground or daemon mode to make tag events available to user-space applications.

Programming libraries

  • touchatag-processing is a Processing library from Augusto Esteves that allows users to connect and read from multiple touchatag readers on the Windows platform. This library works with simply the reader's drivers, so there's no need to install any official or unofficial clients.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". touchatag. http://www.touchatag.com/faq#n184. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  2. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". touchatag. http://www.touchatag.com/faq#n252. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  3. ^ "DEMO: Meet Alcatel-Lucent’s Services Play". Gigaom.com. 2008-09-08. http://gigaom.com/2008/09/08/demo-meet-alcatel-lucents-services-play. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  4. ^ "About". touchatag. http://www.touchatag.com/about. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  5. ^ "Tikitag promises to bring RFID tags to everything". Engadget. http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/tikitag-promises-to-bring-rfid-tags-to-everything. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  6. ^ "Tikitag renamed Touchatag, adds QR codes to repertoire". Engadget. http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/tikitag-renamed-touchatag-adds-qr-codes-to-repertoire/. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  7. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". touchatag. http://www.touchatag.com/faq#n346. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  8. ^ "touchatag". touchatag. http://www.touchatag.com/e-store. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  9. ^ "Welcome to the business site | Touchatag Business". Touchatag.com. http://www.touchatag.com/business. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  10. ^ http://www.touchatag.com/developer
  11. ^ "Welcome to the business site | Touchatag Business". Business.touchatag.com. http://business.touchatag.com. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  12. ^ a b "SupportedReadersAndTags - tageventor - Project Hosting on Google Code". Code.google.com. 2009-10-24. http://code.google.com/p/tageventor/wiki/SupportedReadersAndTags. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  13. ^ http://groups.google.com/group/touchatag/web/linux-client-setup

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