Wireless wearables and related systems and methods
Disclosed herein are wireless wearables and related systems and methods. The wireless wearables are devices worn by a user (and/or attached to clothing and/or accouterments of a user) and are configured to receive and send data based on one or more wireless communication technologies, such as for authentication for a variety of purposes. The wearables may include, by non-limiting examples: rings (finger rings and/or toe rings), necklaces, earrings, piercings, clasps, watch bands, charms, cuff links, pins or clip elements attachable to clothing, pins or clip elements attachable to a bill of a hat, and clip or magnetic elements attachable to glasses (eyeglasses, sunglasses, virtual reality glasses, augmented reality glasses, and so forth).
1. A wireless wearable method, comprising:
sending a wireless wearable, packaged within a container, to an event organizer, the wireless wearable comprising a wearable item fully encasing a Near Field Communication (NFC) chip;
receiving, at one or more servers communicatively coupled with a database, from the event organizer, through one or more interfaces of an event organizer computer communicatively coupled with the database, a first code associated through the database with the wireless wearable;
receiving at the one or more servers, from an attendee, through one or more interfaces of an attendee computing device communicatively coupled with the database, a second code associated through the database with the wireless wearable;
receiving at the one or more servers, from a checkpoint device communicatively coupled with the database, an NFC code of the NFC chip; and
sending to the checkpoint device, from the one or more servers, in response to receiving the NFC code of the NFC chip, an indication of whether the attendee is authorized for entry into an event;
wherein the first code is a first QR code (QR 1 ), wherein the second code is a second QR code (QR 2 ), wherein the method further comprises storing in the database, in response to receiving user input at one or more user interfaces displayed on an administrator computing device communicatively coupled with the database, the NFC code of the NFC chip, QR 1 , QR 2 , a first identifier (ID 1 ), and a second identifier (ID 2 ); wherein the method further comprises, through the database, associating the NFC code and QR 2 with ID 2 , associating QR 1 with ID 1 , and associating ID 1 with ID 2 .
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, in response to receiving user input at the one or more user interfaces displayed on the administrator computing device, associating a batch number with the wireless wearable through the database and associating an indicator of the event organizer with the wireless wearable through the database.
3. A wireless wearable system, comprising:
a finger ring comprised of an elastic polymer and having a Near Field Communication (NFC) chip embedded therein;
an admin computing device communicatively coupled with a database and displaying one or more interfaces for storing and associating data within the database;
wherein the database has stored therein a first identifier (ID 1 ), a second identifier (ID 2 ), a first quick response code (QR 1 ), a second quick response code (QR 2 ), and an NFC code of the NFC chip; and
wherein, through the database, ID 1 is associated with QR 1 , ID 1 is associated with ID 2 , and ID 2 is associated with the NFC code and with QR 2 .
4. The system of claim 3 further comprising a container for the finger ring, wherein QR 1 is located outside the container so that it is visible before the container is opened.
5. The system of claim 3 further comprising a container for the finger ring, wherein QR 2 is located inside the container so that it is not visible until the container is opened.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the container further comprises a metallic foil shield configured to prevent reading the NFC code of the NFC chip until the finger ring is removed from within the metallic foil shield.