First fully offline data transfer by Constantijn van Oranje at CES
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Las Vegas, January 10, 2024. By scanning a special moving digital code at the Dutch pavilion at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, Constantijn van Oranje, Special Envoy for Techleap, was the first to receive a file completely offline on his phone.
The technology for this offline way of data transfer is a development of the Eindhoven-based company LiveDrop. The company has spent the past 3 years developing an innovative and patented technology that enables communication when the internet is unavailable or the user does not want to use an online connection. This one-way data transfer method is very secure because it is impossible to inject the sender’s device with malware during the data transfer.
With LiveDrop’s technology, random files, such as photos, PDFs, and Office documents, can be displayed in the form of an advanced data matrix that resembles the well-known QR code. This data matrix can then be scanned by the recipient, whether it's an iOS or Android phone, and the technology ensures that the original file is then available to the recipient. This makes error-free file sharing possible, without the need for a so-called handshake between sender and receiver. The technology also works on Windows and Linux and is currently being tested in healthcare through a pilot with Jeroen Bosch Hospital and healthcare organization Vivent.
At CES, LiveDrop is launching the LiveDrop Offline Sharing app for iOS and Android this week. The first version can send files up to 150KB, and receiving a file takes only a few seconds. LiveDrop is one of 70 Dutch startups that are part of the Dutch RVO delegation and is at CES seeking future business partners and end customers, particularly in the domains of healthcare, defense, and cybersecurity.