Costa Mesa, CA – June 3, 2008 – Delphi Display Systems announced today that it has provided
outdoor display technology to be used to track people’s exercise habits around Seattle’s Green
Lake park. To use the system, an Orbiter Seattle tag is purchased in the park and serves as an
electronic lap counter. The three Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) stations located around
the 2.8 mile lake are used to record exerciser’s lap times. Individual results are displayed on color
outdoor LCD screens provided by Delphi. The screen tells them what their time is around Green
Lake and how many laps they have completed that week or month. People can compete against
one another by walking or running around
the lake at different times of the day and
comparing their results. The user can also
access their information on-line with a
password on the sensor tag's package.
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The Orbiter system also tracks and displays
reward points accumulated by each user
that can be redeemed for prizes. The top
five people in monthly distance can win a
30 day Metro bus pass, 10 gallons of gas, or
Carbon Credit donation or $40 for dinner at
a select restaurant. Other rewards include
passes to the Seattle Aquarium, Woodland
Park Zoo, Experience Music Project, resort
trips, specialty items, and snacks from
Green Lake concession stands.
"The whole point is to encourage people to get exercise and be rewarded for it. It pays you to do
that," said Greg Stewart, inventor of the Orbiter. "Orbiter found Delphi’s display technology
uniquely qualified for our unattended and automated Resorts, Parks and Recreation applications.
Delphi was the only company that could produce a full color display which could be seen in direct
sun light, was vandal resistant, operated reliably in all North American temperatures, was XP
compatible, and had the ability to interface to a sensor and communicate with our data cellular
modem."
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ORBITER SYSTEM. The message on the
screen says "Green Lake Orbiter is a fun and
rewarding way to keep track of your "Orbits"
around Green Lake.
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"We are very excited to be providing the display technology for this project", said Ken Neeld,
Delphi Display System’s President & CEO. "I believe this concept will be very popular with parks
around the country as the importance of health and fitness is on everyone’s mind today."
The Seattle Parks and Recreation department has authorized the installation of the Orbiter system
as an experiment to see how it is received by the public. With over a million visitors annually,
Green Lake is the second busiest park in the nation behind New York's Central Park. The
department wants the system to generate income with a percentage of the profits from sales of the
electronic tags going to the city.
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About Delphi Display Systems
Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, Delphi Display Systems designs and manufactures a
wide variety of outdoor digital signage products serving the quick service restaurant (QSR),
petroleum retail, and other market verticals. Applications include drive-thru order confirmation,
digital menu boards, gas-pump top video displays, outdoor information kiosks and more. For
more information on the company or the products they offer visit them on the web at
www.DelphiDisplay.com or call (800) 456-0060.
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About Orbiter
Orbiter produces a unique long range lap counting system for Parks. The system attracts new
walkers, bike riders, skiers and runners to the Resort or Park. The result is the perfect all weather
sports lap counting system that allows Parks and Recreation to provide a fun method of keeping
track of every event participant, by displaying their results accurately and instantly. Using unique
long range Radio Frequency Identification ("RFID") technology, the Orbiter offers an unattended
and automated 24/7 system that is affordable, fully automated, touchless, portable, easy to install,
and best of all, easy to use. The system encourages an active life style while providing automatic
"work out" results on an outdoor display provided by Delphi Display Systems located next to the
path. Distance and time information as well as the users nick name are "magically" popped up
on the screen when the user is within 30 feet from the display. For more information on the
Orbiter Seattle system, please visit their web site: http://www.seattleorbiter.com.
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