Vail Goes RFID

By Paul Kedrosky · September 10, 2007 · ·

You know, I need to invest in more companies that sell to ski resorts. I got to thinking the preceding this morning on the news that Vail has partnered with SkyeTek to provide RFID technology for automated lift pass scanning this coming ski season.

I look forward to saying things like, “Yeah, I’m up at Vail doing diligence this week. Am making sure this RFID reader works well during a big powder dump in the Back Bowls.”

[via PRNewswire]

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Comments

  1. mike says:
    September 10, 2007 at 12:52 pm

    indeed!
    In the Patagonian powder last week in Bariloche we decided we needed a real-time, open-data mapping of the (now commonly electronic) lift pass data. In the evening you can sit around the bar and review your best runs of the day; see who got the most miles before 10am. (we’ll have a mobile view, natch). Plot your whole season across all resorts.
    I’m going to assign myself the QA role for this one.