Airplanes have made traveling across the globe very easy. People from all sort of background are now able to travel using this facility. Huge discounts and membership packages from airlines or group of airlines make it easier for the general public to use the facilities. Airports now offer a lot more compared to what they used to offer back in time. From different eating outlets to shopping, all these things can now be found in airports. One thing,that most airports don't offer is the facility to relax during the hop over, or during connecting flights. Most of the hotels or the lounge room are either very costly or not so comfortable for an average person.
To solve this, Mineko Pharma & Engineering Limited, an England and Wales based firm is working on AirPod which is a capsule style designed unit which can be used for different purposes including taking nap and relaxing during the hop over and connecting flights.
About AirPod
AirPod sleeping pod or AirPod is a cubical size to fit a person or two which will provide various type of facilities across all the public spaces like an airport, hotels, etc.
Apart from providing private space in public places, AirPod comes with a lot of extra amazing features like Wi-FI, air-conditioned space, a touchscreen monitor, etc.
Although, AirPod can be made available at multiple public places, but in a strategic research conducted by the AirPod team, it was found that airports will be the best place to first implement the AirPod. This service might be extended to other public places in the future.
AirPod will specifically be great for people traveling on airlines who have a hop over or a connecting flight in between. This will be great for people because as mentioned above private spaces will be really costly and may not provide that much effect in terms of services.
Business Model
AirPod has a very simple business model. They aim to charge for the service they provide on various airports around the world. Apart from the investment in creating a single AirPod, it will cost close to nothing to the firm in deploying these across the airports. This is because of several advantages it has, which are mentioned below.
Advantages of AirPod:-
Very space efficient.
External sound reduction.
Amazing design to provide ease-of-comfort.
Affordable
Team
Grega Mrgole and MihaelMeolic are the two founders of AirPod and they also own the majority of the firm. The idea of creating AirPod originated from the mind of co-founder Mihael who faced several major issues in traveling. Grega, who had traveled different cities from around the world related himself to the problem faced by Mihael and they decided to create AirPod. Before starting to work on AirPod, the AirPod team successfully did a survey and found out that majority of person would use such a service during their journey.
Tokens and ICO
AirPod is a unique project that will be using blockchain to solve the problem more efficiently. To make the adapting more easier, APOD Tokens will be launched. These tokens will be used across airports at AirPod hubs. Apart from this, people can buy ownership in the AirPod available at various airports using APOD tokens.
APOD tokens will be sold in an ICO organized by AirPod. These APOD tokens will be built on the Ethereum blockchain platform and will be based on ERC20. The sale of APOD tokens will be done in two stages, Pre-ICO and the crowd sale ICO. A total of 200.000.000 APOD will be up for sale in the ICO. The token will be USD 0.10 and will come up with a bonus of 30% in this period.
Distribution of Tokens
For crowd-sale - 200.000.000 APOD (80%);
Founders Fund - 30.000.000 APOD (12%);
Supporters & Contractors Fund - 9.000.000 APOD (3.6%);
Bounty campaign – up to 5.000.000 (2%);
Advisers, Ambassadors – 3.000.000 APOD (1.2%);
Company reserve - liquidity pool: 2.000.000 APOD (0.8%)
AirDrop – 1.000.000 APOD (0.4%)
Concluding Verdict:
The idea of AirPod is slightly out of the box. However, the use of blockchain makes it more interesting. I think that if the idea is implemented properly, then it would be a great success considering the fact that there are people waiting for this kind of service. There is a very less regular investment in the product from the company which is a really good thing for the company. I would be really interested to see how they implement this idea.
For more details visit:
Whitepaper: https://air-pod.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/AirPod_Whitepaper_A4.pdf
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