Our RFID production; Smart Tickets.

Our Smart Tickets production provides a most cost effective solution than the traditional smart cards, with the same effectiveness. The top quality graphic layouts, very appreciated by the sponsors, combined with a high level of resistance to atmospheric factors, obtained using selected materials, allow an innovative use, telling and with an high impact, of the RFID technology.

AGJ Smart Tickets for Sking and Snow Board

AGJ Smart Tickets for Transportation and Multiservices

AGJ Smart Tickets for Football

T*Tickets

AGJ T*Tickets are the perfect tool for mass transport, major sport events, theme parks and museums, also for occasional users and time limited happenings. T*Tickets are entirely made of paper , with a very high graphic quality, perfect for event sponsoring, can be personalised by BOCA printers or similar printers.

AGJ T*Tickets

AGJ Smart Tickets and T*Tickets include MIFARE Ultralight, STM and EM4035 chips; we are, of course, prepared to include any other chips you would require.

MONZA: FORMULA ONE Gran Prix, the problems and the solutions

10th and 12th September 2004, 12th and 14th September 2005: a huge crowds of Formula ONE fans pour in the circuit during 3 days of sessions and races. AG Julia tickets with tag have been used for the last two years.

Problems to be solved:

1. The environment's distinctive features:
   • A very modern circuit placed inside the hystorical public park of Villa Reale
   • The Park of Villa Reale is the biggest fenced park in Europe
2. Only one event in a year:
   • Need to use only structures which must be removed immediately after the end of the race
   • No test possibility
3. Lack of computer network:
   • No availability of electric and network connections
4. Very wide area:
   • 14 entrances, 26 stands and 8 resticted access zones spread across a ver wide area
   • very high number of access in a very short time: more than a half million transits in 3 days.
   • the ticket holders are free to walk about anywhere to exit and re-enter the stands and the circuit
5. No trained personnel:
   • 350 tickets service staff with no specific experience from whom cannot expect to recognise fake tickets
   • no professional or trained personnel
6. High prices for tickets:
   • very high risk of counterfeit

The solution

A RFID transponder (or "tag") which contains a very small memory chip combined with an antenna in miniature and the reading/writing devices in conjunction with their own antennas. The reading range can, according to the power supply and the operating frequencies, vary from few centimetres to a meter.
Safe access control obtained with the combination of:

• White list on every hand-held device
• Certificate on microchip
• Transit log

SR176 chip manufactured by ST Microelectronics on board of every smart ticket:

• ISO 14443/B
• 64 bits UID
• 176 bits R/W memory
• 6 lockable blocks

The software

The software with a single click manages and updates , for both the promoter and the point of sale availability and prices of every seating area. With the solution of all counterfeit issues thanks to smart tickets, the promoter was able to start pre-sale very early (spring 2004) by using our ticketing system and printers, upgraded with our RFID kit.

The results

• 280.000 smart tickets
• NO FAKES
• 550.000 transits
• NO QUEUES
• Not even a 3 hours rainstorm that occured on the morning of the race, when most fans were entering the circuit, stopped us from obtaining these results

How it works:

The transponder, to be put in operation, has to be powered and starts working only when passes through an electomagnetic field created by the reader/writer antenna. The transponder antenna receives energy by the induced electromagnetic field and powers the transponder integrated circuit which answers to the query receiving and sending stored data.

There are transponder which can just send but not store data, other which can both receive and store information. The size of the integrated circuit memory of the transponder can vary from few to thousands bytes. The choice about which integrated circuit to use is link to the type of application required.

The main appication are:

• Access control;
• Ticketing, presale and prepaid subsrciptions systems;
• Antifraud and antitheft.

Advantages:

This system is especially fit for ticketing and access control: the microchip has a unique code based on a world standard and can not be deleted or cloned. When the transponder has been applied to a single ticket or to a subscription you have a definitive and automatic identification, furthermore the access to gates are speed up: you need just to near the ticket/subscription to the dedicated reader (fixed or palm) to open the access system (gateways, revolving doors, etc.) Through a dedicated data management software you can have a access to an extremely huge number of information in real time which can allow to handle in very proactive way all the selling channels. "Smart ticket", "smart card" and "smart label" give the opportunity to prepare adequate marketing strategy taking advantage of the chip features in respect of a number of different reloaded cards (like loyalty cards, fidelity points initiative, electronic money, etc.)

This type of organisation offers further advantages:

• Increasing and monitoring of selling points
• Less risk on unsold
• Personalization of tickets "on demand" to cut distribution and warehousing costs
• Up-to-date picture of the presale, presences, entries and access ways.

Security

• Deletion of forgery
• Automated control
• Riskfree in respect of theft or loss
• Drastic reduction of the abuses due by recycled ticket, exit stamps, etc.
• Secured software and connections

On which base a trasponder is chosen?

• Considering the distance between the ticket/subscription and the reader
• If is a one off or will be reuse.
• Depending on the size and the form
• Depending on the resistance against atmospherical events (humidity, temperature, etc.)
• Depending on the quantity and quality in storing data
• Depending on the capability to read more the one transponder at the same time
• Depending on the quickness of reading
• Depending on the protection of the data stored with cryptograh protocols.

Most utilised TAG:

Typical frequency	Typical maximum distance	General features	Tag Size
125 Khz (LF)	Max 0,5 mt.	The inductive low frequency tag is quite expensive, mainly in respect of big production, because low frequency require a much expensive antenna. Good resistance in respect of the action of metals and fluids	The bigger TAG in the market
13,56 Mhz (HF)	Max 1 mt	This frequency is the most used worlwide because of the diffusion of the smart cards. Less expensive that the inductive LF tag.	Medium

The Chip market

The ISO 14443 chip, in the options A and B, is the one used for ticketing and pubblic transport, mainly for the short range of reading, 15 cm. The 15963 chip (long range) has not normative limits in respect of reading distance, which is just linked to the physical laws, and is used mainly in the logistic world and for access contolling (like skipass, hanfree access, etc.) Both chips work on 13,56 MHZ frequency and soon will be available with UHF band (about 878 MHZ) to be used mainly in the logistic area.

The following list concern to most used chips with the relevant memory features.

Producer	Chip	Iso	Bits	Type
Philips	MIFARE 1k	14443/A	4000	r/w
Philips	MIFARE 4k	14443/A	16000	r/w
Philips	MIFARE UltraLight	14443/A	384	r/w
Innovision	Jewel	14443/A	768	r/w
Infineon	SLE66R35	14443/A	16000	r/w
STMicro electronics	SR176	14443/B	176	r/w
STMicro electronics	CTS	14443/B	176	r/w
STMicro electronics	SRIX4K	14443/B	4096	r/w
STMicro electronics	LRI512	15693	512	r/w
STMicro electronics	LRI64	15693	64	OTP
EMMarin	EM4135	15693	2400	r/w
EMMarin	EM4035	15693	3200	r/w
Fujitsu	MB89R116	15693	16000	r/w
philips	I-CODE SLI	15693	896	r/w