Every September and October, over 15,000 tennis fans enter the Beijing National Tennis Center to attend the China Open. In the past, patrons had their paper tickets checked visually by stadium employees at the entrance. This process often led to long queues as visitors entered the stadium. A number of security issues also happened. Some individuals would counterfeit tickets, while others would enter the more expensive seating area.
In 2010, China Open started to apply an RFID solution for access to a fenced-in area where athletes, media and VIPs were permitted. All VIP tickets were equipped with 13.56 MHz high-frequency (HF) RFID chips. VIP visitors waved RFID-enabled tickets past Chainway handheld computers carried by personnel at 4 specific gates of the stadium. The handheld terminals consist of an RFID interrogator and a bar-code scanner. In the event that the RFID reader fails to detect an RFID chip's presence, it will scan the bar code on the ticket front.
Visitors ordered tickets online, by phone, or personally went to the ticket office in Beijing. They could choose from 14 options in 4 categories-grand stand, ground pass, packages, and VIP.
All tickets printed category, section, row, seat number and the entrance of the stadium the seating was for. VIP tickets had an RFID tag encoded with a unique ID number and a 2D barcode. When a valid VIP ticket was placed near the handheld computer, the ID number is captured and then forwarded to the back-end system wirelessly. This back-end system authenticated the ID in the database so the handheld terminal gave a positive sign on the screen. If none effective information was captured by the handheld computer, the system would send an alert.
It allowed visitors faster entrance to the stadium and their seats, while reducing the risk of ticket fraud.
All of the RFID transaction data is stored in the system, and can be accessed online in real time. In that way, interested parties can log onto the system and view the number of people who have entered the stadium, as well as how quickly, in which entrance, in real time.
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