"Never lose your people."
A wristband that finds your crew when the signal dies. Launching at partner events in 2027.
Every festival. Every time. The moment you've been waiting for — spent wandering, texting into the void, missing it.
Pick up a Lokato band at the door of a partner event, or add it to your ticket. A thin LoRa + Bluetooth chip lives inside the wristband — nothing to carry, nothing to charge.
Tap your band to your phone to activate it in the Lokato app. Scan a friend's QR, both sides confirm, and a private link turns on. No one can see you without your yes.
Open the map and see every friend as a live dot with a glowing area around it — wide when they're somewhere at a stage, tight when you're closing in. Your band talks to Lokato gateways around the venue on 915 MHz, so it works when every phone around you has zero bars.
"Lokato bridges the gap between wristband scans and real-world behavior — without sacrificing privacy."
Lokato is a paid add-on your attendees already want. In 2027 we deploy at partner clubs and block parties and share the door. From 2028, it ships inside your VIP or GA+ credential with a 30% revenue share on every unit.
Crowd flow, dwell time, stage movement, group clustering — anonymized, aggregated intelligence your wristband scans never captured. Aggregated before storage; no individual traces, ever.
Reduce lost-attendee incidents. Improve crowd navigation. Give first-time attendees the confidence to explore freely.
Totem Labs (62K users, Rolling Stone, WIRED) and CrowdCompass (Shark Tank S17, TIME Best Inventions 2025) proved people will pay to find their friends. Both sell a separate gadget you have to buy, charge and remember. Lokato is a wristband — and from 2028, it comes with your ticket.
| Feature | Totem / CrowdCompass | Lokato |
|---|---|---|
| Form factor | Separate puck to buy, carry & charge | Embedded in wristband you already have |
| Purchase barrier | $69–100 per device, bought online in advance | At the door, or with your ticket |
| Technology | Sub-GHz mesh + GNSS (device to device) | 915 MHz LoRa + BLE to elevated venue gateways |
| Works indoors | Limited — GNSS/GPS dependent | Yes — venue gateways, no GPS required |
| Works without signal | Yes — peer mesh (max 8 friends) | Yes — gateways + satellite backhaul, unlimited crew |
| Revenue to festival | $0 — pays festival nothing | $58K–$134K per 40K event (30% share) |
| API / B2B model | None — consumer product only | $10K–$30K per event API license |
| Data analytics | None | Full crowd analytics — $10K/year |
| Festival app integration | None | Door sales now · SDK into your app from 2028 |
| Awards & PR | Shark Tank · TIME · Rolling Stone · WIRED | Partner-venue pilots 2027 |
Totem and CrowdCompass validate that festival-goers will pay for friend location. Lokato removes the purchase barrier (it's a wristband, not a gadget), sees your whole crew at once, and is the only one built to live inside the festival credential — paying the operator on every unit.
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