Jomablue Smart Badge

The Jomablue Smart Badge is a physical PVC card embedded with an NFC chip. Once printed and issued to attendees, it acts as their digital business card for use during the event. At the time of printing, the badge is encoded and linked to the attendee, serving as an identifier. Importantly, no personal information is stored on the Smart Badge, so there’s no privacy risk if it is lost or stolen.

This data collected helps map the individual journeys of attendees as well as the overall flow of all participants. Some uses of the Smart Badge include:

• Identification: Upon check-in, the badge is used to identify attendees, displaying their first name, last name, and company.
• Lead Capture: Exhibitors can capture leads by tapping an attendee’s Smart Badge on a Jomablue Lead Capture Device
• Session Check-In: Event staff can check attendees into sessions by tapping their Smart Badge on a Jomablue Session Check-In Device
• Access to Content: Attendees can tap their Smart Badge on a Jomablue Touchpoint to access Session-Related Content, download posters or whitepapers, enter competitions, complete surveys, and obtain any other materials you wish to provide
• Item Distribution Management: Event staff can manage physical item distribution by tapping an attendee's Smart Badge on a Jomablue Item Collection device

Smart Badge Specifications

The Jomablue Smart Badge measures 85.6mm x 54mm with rounded corners. By default, it is white, but it can be customised with printed artwork or produced in a solid colour. If you choose a non-standard option, please allow 5 weeks from the order date until the event date for custom manufacturing. Consult your Project Manager to determine the best option for your event.

Lanyard slot:

• Dimensions: 15mm wide x 3mm high
• Distance between the top edge of the Badge to the top edge of the slot: 3mm

Long Edge Slot

Short Edge Slot

Artwork and Printing

Attendee information can only be printed on one side of the Smart Badge. This information is printed in black ink. Badge printing supports inverted printing of specific fields, allowing white text to be displayed inside a black box on a white Jomablue Smart Badge.

There is an option for printing custom colours or artwork on one or both sides of the Jomablue Smart Badges. The artwork must meet the specified requirements and include a 5mm bleed. Note that custom artwork or colours may incur an additional fee. Please consult your Jomablue Project Manager.

Important: Please leave at least 60% of the front face of the Smart Badge clear to ensure sufficient space for printing the Attendee's details. This assumes 3 lines of information (e.g., First Name, Last Name, Company). Additional space is recommended if more lines are needed. A background can occupy this area if it is uniform and suitable for printing.

Configure Jomablue Smart Badge Layouts

Jomablue Smart Badge layouts (e.g., the positioning, size, and style of all text elements on your Smart Badge) can be configured via the Portal.
To access the Smart Badge Layout configurator:

1. Navigate to Event Configuration > Settings
2. Click on the Printed Badge Layout tab
3. Click the New Smart Badge Layout button to start configuring your Smart Badge layout. You'll be presented with a screen where you need to fill out the following fields:
   
   
   

• Copy template from another event: You can select a badge layout from a drop-down menu list of existing events (see Copy a Smart Badge Layout below)
• Name: Enter a meaningful name for the Smart Badge Layout. This will make it easier to locate, especially if you have many Badge layouts for a single Event
• Layout Type: Select the orientation of the Smart Badge Layout. The options are Horizontal and Vertical. Choosing the Vertical option will change the preview on the right to a Vertical orientation.
• Category: This option allows you to apply the Layout to all People in your Event or restrict it to a specific Category. If you choose "Apply Layout to specific category," a drop-down menu will appear for you to select the desired Category.
• Priority: This option applies to Layouts that correspond to a specific Category. Since People may belong to multiple Categories, this field allows you to prioritise Layouts.
• Print Preview Badge Size: The selected badge size will be displayed as well as a preview of the configured layout. 

After completing these fields, click Save to save the Layout, and then proceed to edit the Layout itself. 

Using the Smart Badge Layout Editor

To edit the Layout, click on the Edit Layout button and you'll see this screen:

On the left, you can see the preview area displaying the elements you have positioned. On the right, there are several panels for the following purposes:

• Sample text: Enter sample text that appears in the currently selected field
• Elements: Add, select, or remove text elements to the Layout. Click the plus (+) sign next to an element to add it, or click on its name to select it. To remove an element, select it and then click the red cross icon.
• Dimensions: With an element selected, this panel allows you to view and edit its Width, Height, X Position, and Y position. The X and Y positions refer to the top-left corner of the field. For example, if both X and Y are set to 0, the field will be in the top-left corner of the Layout. Note that these dimensions reflect the bounding box of the element, not necessarily the printed text.
• Font: With an element selected, this panel lets you view and edit options like font size, style, family, case, and overflow method. Additionally, it includes an option to enable inverted printing for the selected element.
• Alignment: With an element selected, this panel allows you to adjust the text alignment within the element itself. You can align it horizontally (left, centre) right)  and vertically (top, middle, bottom).

Smart Badge Font Options

Each field has independently customisable font options, enabling you to design your Smart Badges as desired. The options are:

• Size: The font size. Depending on the selected overflow option, fields may print at a smaller size to fit the text within the bounding box.
• Style: Choose between Regular or Bold font
• Family: Select the font family. The built-in options are Corbel, Open Sans, and Helvetica (with Corbel set as default). The option [Custom] allows you to manually enter a font family, but please note that custom fonts require additional setup. Consult your Jomablue Project Manager for your options.
• Case: Choose the case of the font. The options include:
  • Default: No adjustment to the case
  • Sentence Case: Capitalises the first letter of the badge
  • Upper Case: Capitalises the first letter of each word
• Overflow: The method used when the text in a field cannot fit within its designated area.

There are two methods to handle this: Resize and Wrap.

• • Resize: Reduces the text size to fit within a single line inside the box, and it; 's indicated by a red exclamation mark when the text has been resized.
  • Wrap: Keeps the text size constant while allowing the text to flow onto new lines. However, using the Wrap method may eventually result in the text overflowing from the top and bottom of the field.
• Invert: When this option is enabled, this selected element will be printed in an inverted style. For example, on a white badge, the text will appear white with a black background.

An example of the two methods is illustrated below:

On the left, you will see the Resize method (indicated by the red !), and on the right, the Wrap method (which shows text overflowing from the box):

Copy a Smart Badge Layout

When creating a new Smart Badge Layout, you have the option to copy an existing Layout from another Event. To do this:

1. Click on the drop-down menu under the title Copy template from another event
2. Select a Smart Badge Layout from the list in the next drop-down menu

Note: To copy a Smart Badge Layout that contains Custom Fields, the current Event must include Custom Fields with matching keys. If they don't exist, a warning will appear with a link to the Custom Fields section of the Event, where you can create the necessary Custom Fields. Alternatively, you can use the Custom Field copying functionality to copy Custom Fields directly. 

Lanyard Options

The Jomablue Smart Badge is typically attached to a lanyard using the method below:

• Direct Attachment: The Smart Badge can be clipped directly to a lanyard, provided it has one or two slots or circular holes on one of its edges, depending on the lanyard type and desired orientation. This can be used with a backing card that clips to the lanyard behind the Smart Badge.

If lanyards with backing cards are used, they should be assembled before the event based on the expected number of attendees in each Category. This assembly can be arranged by Jomablue or by the client if preferred.

Some examples of Smart Badges attached to lanyards via these methods can be seen below.

What gets printed on a Jomablue Smart Badge
You can have any necessary data printed on the Jomablue Smart Badge. Custom fields and layouts are available, however, the standard fields we use are:

• First Name
• Last Name
• Job Title
• Company Name
• Badge Category Codes

The default typeface used on a Jomablue Smart Badge is Corbel. While custom fonts can be requested, they must undergo testing before approval. Please note that using custom fonts incurs an additional cost for setup and testing, which requires at least 5 business days.

Configure Category Settings

The Jomablue Smart Badge settings allow you to add Category Codes to a person’s badge and an optional Category priority.

For example, you might want to use different lanyard colours to identify attendees at an event:

• Delegates = Black Lanyard
• VIP = White Lanyard

Instead of printing the full words on the Smart Badge, you can print category codes: "BLK" for black and "WHT" for white.

What if someone belongs to more than one category?

This is where Category Priority comes into play. For example, if a person is assigned to both Delegate & VIP, only the category code with the highest priority will be printed on their Smart Badge.

Example:
Delegates will receive a black lanyard

• Category Code = "BLK"
• Priority = 1

VIP will receive a white lanyard.

• Category Code = "WHT"
• Priority = 2
  
  
   

In this case, if a delegate has both Delegate and VIP categories, “WHT" will be printed on their badge since it has a higher priority (2).

If a person belongs to multiple categories with the same priority value, the category code for the first category they belong to will be printed. This is undesirable and uncontrollable, so it's advised not to assign the same priority to multiple categories.

Note: The prioritised Category must be active on one or more Smart Badge printers.

Edit Category code

To edit the Category code, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the Portal > Event Configuration > Categories
2. Click on Event Settings for the desired Category
3. You can now set or edit the Category Code and Priority in Badge Setting

Insights Settings

Toggling this option will include the category in the insights reporting. For example, if you want to exclude the crew from all insight charts and data tables, set the Crew Category to "No".
Note: This setting only affects the Organiser Insight dashboard

Use Categories to apply different Smart Badge layouts

The badge for a person who belongs to multiple Categories will be based on the layout with the lowest priority value. For example, if a person is categorised as a VIP with a priority of 3 and as a Speaker with a priority of 2, the Speaker layout will be selected when their Smart Badge is printed.