Tennis Masters Cup 2005 organizers were relieved as RFID tags were implanted on each Shanghai Qi Zhong stadium ticket and it curtailed counterfeiting significantly. The interrogators present at all the 16 gates of the stadium read all the details from the ticket like date of the match, seat number, unique ID and enabled the automated gate to allow the crowds who were not les than 100,000 in numbers.





Texas Instruments RFID (TI-RFid) Systems supplied the 13.56 MHz Tag-it HF-I RFID inlays, compliant with ISO 15693 standard, that were embedded in the tickets, and TI worked with a number of local vendors to deploy the ticketing solution, according to Jeff Kohnle, TI-RFid’s director of sales and marketing for the Asia Pacific region.



Jeff Kohnle, director of TI-Rfid said that the tickets were heavy and of an airline ticket size. He was excited when he said the spectators did not fold or ripped the tickets instead they kept it as souvenir.



Keyed up with the success of the game the Shanghai Ba-Shi Group nest years wants to unveil a high end ticket that patrons can use as a alternate payment device from the point of sale shops like food or other items. It will be linked through RFID interrogators.





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