SAINTCON 2015 · United States · 2015

SAINTCON 2015 Wi-Fi Show Badge

Cisco CMX-linked attendee badge with LCD, buttons, schedule, and challenge score

The SAINTCON 2015 badge was a purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled attendee show badge described by Cisco as a conference-scale experiment: roughly 550 participants carried LCD-and-button badges that used Wi-Fi location data for zone awareness, schedule lookup, and live Hacker Challenge score display.

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EventSAINTCON 2015

SeriesSAINTCON

LocationWeber State University, Ogden, Utah

CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

Cisco write-up author

Daryl Coon

The Cisco article attributes the SAINTCON badge write-up to Daryl Coon.

Source

badge integration write-up publisher

Cisco

Cisco's write-up documents the Wi-Fi enabled show-badge concept, Cisco CMX linkage, badge interface, attendee scale, schedule, score, and zone behavior.

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event archive publisher

UtahSAINT / SAINTCON

The official 2015 archive establishes SAINTCON 2015 dates, Weber State University / Ogden context, and event-site source trail.

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Why It Mattered

It pushes the SAINTCON electronic-badge lineage back another year and records a distinctive network-aware conference badge: the badge was not only a PCB souvenir but part of the venue infrastructure, combining attendee interaction, scheduling, scoring, and Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences location context.

Hardware

Cisco's write-up describes a purpose-built badge with a roughly 2.25 inch LCD screen and several input buttons, issued to about 550 attendees. It characterizes the badge as Wi-Fi enabled and paired with event infrastructure for attendee movement and zone data; this pass did not recover a component list, PCB source, battery details, schematic, or production firmware image.

Software & Apps

The Cisco source says the badge used Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences location data to personalize the screen by zone and could display the conference schedule, the attendee's Hacker Challenge score in real time, and the attendee's current zone within the venue. No badge firmware repository, API description, or backend source was recovered in this pass.

Lore

The official archive places SAINTCON 2015 at Weber State University in Ogden from October 27-30, 2015. Cisco frames the badge as the second year of SAINTCON's show-badge program and says organizers wanted to use event-infrastructure telemetry as part of the attendee experience.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge interface source-backed

LCD and button interface

The Cisco write-up says the badge included a roughly 2.25 inch LCD screen plus several buttons for attendee interaction.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2015 Wi-Fi Show Badge

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event information app source-backed

Schedule, score, and zone display

The badge could display the conference schedule, live Hacker Challenge score, and current location zone within the venue.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2015 event services

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location services integration source-backed

Cisco CMX venue telemetry context

Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences data supplied the venue-location context used to personalize badge behavior and analyze attendee movement.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2015 wireless infrastructure

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network-aware attendee badge source-backed

Wi-Fi enabled show-badge platform

Cisco describes the SAINTCON show badges as purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled badges carried by about 550 attendees and tied to Cisco CMX infrastructure.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2015 attendee badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

image-rights boundary note

Cisco and official archive pages contain event or badge-related media, but this pass did not recover a badge photo or official render with complete reusable image license, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance.

The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying Cisco blog, archive, or event media without explicit reuse permission.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy, Cisco badge write-up media, and SAINTCON 2015 archive media.

missing rights-cleared image note

No SAINTCON 2015 Wi-Fi Show Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and SAINTCON 2015 official archive and Cisco Wi-Fi show-badge write-up source trail.

source-depth caveat note

The official archive proves the event context and Cisco proves a real Wi-Fi enabled show badge, but this pass did not recover a public schematic, BOM, PCB source, firmware image, badge-team repository, production manual, or final application source.

The record preserves verified behavior and integration claims without inventing components, radio details beyond Wi-Fi, PCB layout, battery design, firmware internals, or backend implementation.

Confidence: official archive plus partner technical write-up
Status: needs badge-team archive
Timeframe: current SAINTCON 2015 pass
Source note: SAINTCON 2015 archive and Cisco badge write-up.

Resources

Badges? We got badges! partner badge write-up · Cisco source documenting SAINTCON's purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled show badges, 2.25 inch LCD screen, buttons, 550-attendee scale, Cisco CMX integration, schedule display, live Hacker Challenge score, and venue-zone awareness. SAINTCON 2015 archive official event archive · Official archive source for October 27-30, 2015 event timing, Weber State University / Ogden context, schedule, workshops, villages, and pre-registration badge-pickup context.

Sources

Cisco: Badges? We got badges! Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge evidence for the purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled show badge, LCD and buttons, attendee scale, Cisco CMX linkage, schedule, score, and zone-display behavior; cited without image reuse. UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON 2015 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for October 27-30, 2015 timing, Weber State University / Ogden context, and event-site source trail.