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Major event will utilize wearable technology to allow people to pay for goods

Lullapalooza 2014 will be supporting mobile payments through the use of wearable technologies. The event’s organizer has announced that those attending the festival in August will be able to use high-tech wristbands to make transactions. This represents one of the largest events in which mobile payments and wearable technology are combined. While wristbands with imbedded RFID chips are not something new to mainstream events like Lullapalooza, they are most typically used to grant people access to particular areas and not for mobile payments.

RFID-equipped wristbands will make mobile purchases possible

Plastic wristbands equipped with RFID chips are to be used to the festival. Once a visitor enters the festival grounds, they will be able to use these wristbands as a way to pay for goods at the various stalls at the event. These wristbands can also be used at the events bars and payments are made through the use of mobile terminals that are capable of reading the wristband’s RFID chip.

Festival goers need to upload their financial details to the Lullapalooza website before they can use their wristbands

Before the wristbands can be used, festival goers will have to upload their financial information into the Lullapalooza website. Once this has been accomplished, the wristbands will be sent out before the beginning of the festival. The wristbands will not only accommodate mobile payments, of course, and will function as a way to monitor festival entry as well. This is one of the more common uses for such wristbands and RFID chips are typically used to admittance more so than for mobile transactions.

Wristbands could make paying for goods at the festival safer and easier

Mobile payments have become quite popular in a variety of sectors, but they are new to prominent events like Lullapalooza. Making transactions easier for festival goers is one of the reasons the event has opted to use its new wristbands. The wristbands also remove the need for people to carry around physical currency, which could cut down on the instances of theft that occur at the festival.

The massive U.S. music festival will be able to complete transactions without the need for plastic cards.

The organizer of Lollapalooza 2014 has now announced that it will be issuing wristbands to its attendees that include wearable tech, so that they can use them throughout the event which runs from August 1 through August 3.

These plastic wristband wearables will each contain their own unique RFID chip.

Once the visitors to the festival have entered the grounds, the wearable tech will give them the ability to make mobile payments at various stalls and bars through the simple tapping of the device against a terminal. They must then enter a pin in order to confirm the payment, and this will eliminate the need for carrying cash or credit cards in order to buy items, food, and drinks.

The wearable tech will be set up for the attendees ahead of entering the Chicago Lollapalooza site.

Ahead of entering Grant Park, where the music festival is held, the participants in the event will be able to use the official website for the festival in order to be able to upload their credit card details. The wristbands will then be issued to the attendees in advance so that the attendees can link their own mobile payments details with their wearables.

On the day of the festival, participants wear the wristbands so that their entry to the event can be monitored and so that they can use the device in order to make the purchases they want, without having to carry cash on them and without having to take out their plastic credit cards every time they want to buy something.

C3, the company that is behind the organization of the Lollapalooza festival – as well as a number of other concerts and events – believes that it won’t be very long before using wearable tech will become the norm not only among the festivals that they organize, but among others, as well. The practicality, traceability, and convenience of the technology provides important benefits to organizers, sellers, and attendees in a highly cost effective and user friendly way.