Here's a winner if ever I saw it - Findercodes.
For a while, I tried to get involved in a GPS tracking/locating business, especially aimed at real time tracking of children for parents. It didn't happen -largely because of the need and cost to manufacture - but there's certainly a business there.
People lose things all the time and mostly, they are of little value to anyone except the owner. Leave something on the bus, lose a dog/camera/phone, a scarf, a jacket and so on. Findercodes now solves that issue.
Using QR codes attached by way of a sticker, key ring or ironed on, they contain all of the owner's details and are easily scanned into a smartphone. If they don't have a smartphone, they can enter the code manually and it will tell them who owns the item and how to contact them. The pet market alone is huge.
It does require of course, someone to scan the item but largely people will and certainly organisations (airport managers, air lines, bus companies and so on) will.
You can also add a reward to the QR code if you wish, so the reward is seen when it's scanned.
Findercodes are a very simple idea that has lots of applications -such as for books in a library - and costing only 25 usd for 5 tags, it makes sense. Findercodes is going to be a standard and uses QR codes cleverly. QR codes are something we almost wrote off.
There's plenty of software out there and technology.
It's now a matter not of inventing more, but rather, cleverly applying what we've got.
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