RFID Tickets Sped Visitors Through Belgium's F1 Grand Prix
The race organizer used tickets embedded with 13.56 MHz RFID tags and handheld readers to scan tickets as visitors entered the stadium, thereby reducing queues and curtailing fraud.
15/09/2008
Published September 15, 2008, RFID Journal.
Early this month, 200,000 visitors at Belgium's Formula 1 Grand Prix used tickets with RFID-embedded tags that granted them entrance to specific parts of the Spa-Francorchamps stadium in southeastern Brussels, where the event was held.
The ticketing system, provided by RFIDEA for Spa GP, the ticket-selling division of the race's organizer, F1 Belgium, allowed visitors faster entrance to the stadium and their seats, while also reducing the risk of ticket fraud for F1 Belgium. RFIDEA furnished Spa GP with a link for Spa GP's database to access new ticket purchases, as well as software to enable printing of tickets and access control data to enable handheld interrogators used by stadium personnel to interpret whether a ticket holder could enter a specific section of the stadium. The tickets were printed by RFIDEA on Toshiba TEC printers.
On the day of the event, stadium personnel employed 85 Psion Teklogix WORKABOUT PRO handheld computers with RFID readers to capture each ticket's unique ID number. The handhelds transmitted that information wirelessly to the RFIDEA back-end server, and RFIDEA software enabled the system to access data linked to that ticket, such as the portion of the stadium to which the visitor had access, as well as the ticket date.
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