Beijing 2008 olympic game was just closed. China government adopted a serial new technologies to ensure this game running smoothly. And the RFID is the most interesting one, it is disscussed broadly.
RFID technology is used in many different areas in Beijing, e.g. food security system, hotels, supply chain and hospitals, and so on. Among these, people are more interested in the hi-tech tickets of the game which combined RFID into it. And this related to all the audiences, it makes people can actually touch this new techonology.
Normally, there were more than fifty thousand people were entering the buliding like football field, or basket court, or gymnasium at the same time, so it was really hard to figure out this problem. Whereas, people found RFID tickets were actually very helpful. It soared the efficiency of this process. The RFID reader can identify the tickets as well as the tickets' holders within 0.1 second. Besides that, RFID ticket also enhanced the security of the game, people were asked to show their ID when they purchased the ticket, also in the meanwhile their personal information will be stored on a server. Later, when they entered the building, their ID and personal information will be checked. So this prevented the terrorist attacks effectively.
Here is a picture of the RFID ticket.
And here is a picture of the RFID reader.
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