Applications in Event Management

Football World Cup

Be it Football world cup, rock show , college Fest or any other large scale event it is always challenging to manage the same.The challenge faced by the organizers is to mange the the crowd of people out of which many are fanatics and emotionally attached to the event. Many of the same try entering the event without the genuine ticket and to restrict such activities is a tough task faced by the organizers.It has also been noticed due to the large demand which causes shortage of ticket many people are being fooled by the counterfeiters who sold them fraudulent tickets.

considering the present scenario, the problem we are facing is that normal printed tickets are to be manually checked. This requires large number of authorized people at the entrance gates who will check the tickets of each and every person which could be time consuming.Besides this these tickets can be easily counterfeited and it is often seen that organizers themselves can't distinguish between real and fake tickets thus allowing the entry at the same seat to two different persons resulting in a brawl inside the event.Bar coded tickets were introduced for automated gate keeping resulting in faster process of ticket checking but still the bar-codes can be counterfeited with ease.

Printed tickets with RFID inlay can be the solution of this problem. This tickets looks similar to a printed one but it has a passive RFID inlay within it. This inlay is a read only tag identified by the reader even from a distance hence it is possible to implement both automated doors with reader or security guards with hand held readers to facilitate the process of ticket checking.

RFID Ticket Reader Doors

The advantages this RFID inlay tickets have are  :

•  No possibility of counterfeiting as it impossible to guess the original serial number and to make or source RFID inlay matching the original one.
• Faster scanning of RFID tags on tickets at access gates enables in smooth crowd management

RFID Ticket at Beijing Olympics

Future Scenarios:

Beijing Olympics had successfully implemented RFID tickets which has paved the way to use these tickets to such events in which large crowds are expected.These tickets could even be extended to local transport system such as metro trains which handles large crowd on daily basis.