MADE BY SMART TECHNOLOGY GROUP

SAFETY DURING

WORLD YOUTH DAY KRAKOW 2016

ONLY WITH

SMART RFID

How to provide safety during World Youth Day Krakow 2016 for: 1,5 million pilgrims, 20 thousands volunteers, hundreds VIPs and 1 pope?

STARTING POINT

Security and smart organization of mass events, including those religious ones, is the concern of many scientists and researchers.

They have developed the detailed report for Hajj coordination (Muslims pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia).

However, the biggest disadvantage is often too big mismatch between scientific recommendation and real possibilities or available budget.

STARTING POINT

Then… why not use the already existing and available tools, that could be simply matched for World Youth Day?

This is how Smart Technology Group engineers approached the issue of safety during this event.

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Using their 8-year experience in wireless technologies, they suggested the complex system based on SMART RFID.

STARTING POINT

SMART RFID is the brand of products that use up to 5 wireless technologies: RFID, Bluetooth, WLAN, GPRS oraz ZigBee.

SMART RFID

data acquisition data transfer

THE PILLING CHALLENGES

Najpoważniejsze kwestie związane z bezpieczeństwem podczas ŚDM to:

• pilgrims location in real time,

• unexpected gathering of too big number of pilgrims in one place,

• traffic jam,

• missing single pilgrims or group disorganization,

• faintness,

• sudden evacuation and people localization in order to provide everyone with safe way to

evacuation point.

The great – literally – challenge is the expected scale of event. It is estimated that 1,5 milion people will participate in WYD. Therefore, the previous methods will not work.

THE PILLING CHALLENGES

IDENTIFICATION DATA TRANSFERHow to in real time and in every weather conditions,

in a field properly identificate everyone from the group of 1,5 milion people?

How to fast and effectively sent gathered data to WYD Headqarters?

IDENTIFICATION

Only:

precise and individual (name&surname) of every pilgrim and volunteer,performed in real time,working in every weather condition, even extreme ones (downpour, cloudiness,

heat waves),covering every zone, from Krakow to Brzegi,

identification will guarantee the full security for all participants while WYD organizers will be provided with maximum knowledge on every events during WYD.

IDENTIFICATIONAVAILABLE SOLUTIONS

WiFi

WiFi module is built in every smartphone. It

means that localization and identification with

this technology would be quite easy and would

cover the great number of participants.

The simultaneous usage of several thousand phones with WiFi turned on

will surely result in network overload.Network failure means the complete loss of control by event organizers.

Not every pilgrim has such a modern phone for regular and relatively fast WiFi connection.

But…

IDENTIFICATIONAVAILABLE SOLUTIONS

Bluetooth and beacons

WYD participants should download event mobile application.

After it, organizers using Bluetooth could locate every phone in

every moment.

This technology has the same flaws as WiFi.

The great number of smartphones using network at the same moment

Will undoubtedly lead to network breakdown just in a few hours.

Phones have to have Bluetooth 4.0 and every of 1,5 mln pilgrims or volunteers would have to be constantly in the

reach of beacons.

But…

IDENTIFICATIONAVAILABLE SOLUTIONS

Active RFID

Radio identification is known for its precision. Therefore

equipping pilgrims with active tags which emit signal would

guarantee absolutely very exact localization and identification.

The price of single active RFID tag is very high.

WYD budget would simply crash if such expensive

purchases would be needed.

But…

IDENTIFICATIONDOSTĘPNE ROZWIĄZANIA

RFID UHF

Every pilgrim and volunteer would receive in mandatory package lanyard

or ID card with RFID tag built in.

The greatest passive tags advantages:

they are cheap (contrary to active tags);

don’t need power (contrary to active tags and beacons)

they are small, light and handy;

they work in every weather conditions.

DATA TRANSFER

For correct localization and identification the technology is needed which will be:

• failure-free• reliable• fast• working in real time• covering the whole area of event.

In other case, WYD headquarters will receive piecemeal or incomplete data or such data will never reach headquarters.

DATA TRANSFER

AVAILABLE SOLUTIONS

WiFi

There is one thing that completely eliminates

WiFi in this case: very high probability of

network overload.

DATA TRANSFER

AVAILABLE SOLUTIONS

Bluetooth and beacons

When thousands of pilgrims and volunteers will

simultaneously use their smartphones, network

will be soon overloaded.

Data will never reach headquarters.

DATA TRANSFER

AVAILABLE SOLUTIONS

Ethernet

Ethernet is praised for its high speed transfer and reliability.

However, the hard infrastructure is needed to use it.

In case of such big event, taking place in many locations in

Malopolska region, it would be physically impossible to use it.

DATA TRANSFERAVAILABLE SOLUTIONS

ZigBee

The uniqueness of this technology is based on using mesh

network for data transfer. Data from transmitter A will reach

receiver X even from hundreds of metres. This is one of the

best results for all wireless networks.

ZigBee does not overload any network therefore failures

typical for WiFi or Bluetooth are practically impossible.

WHAT NEXT?

To provide

full identification in real time

reliable data transfer

there is needed the system of pilgrims localization that will simultaneously

use two technologies:

RFID UHF and ZigBee.

SOLUTION? SMART RFID!

The only solution with such combination is

First and only solution combining

RFID UHF and ZigBee.

SOLUTION? SMART RFID!The pilgrims localization system based on SMART RFID would use simultaneously two technologies: RFID UHF and ZigBee

Physically, system would be based on:

tags

antennas

RFID UHF readers

central server

TAG FOR PILGRIMS AND VOLUNTEERS

Every pilgrim and volunteer receives a mandatory package with

lanyard or ID card with RFID tag built in.

Tags durability guarantees that they will work correctly during

whole WYD, no matter what weather will be. Tags are

inexpesive, too.

Tag would be personalized with unique EPC number (Electronic

Product Code). Thanks to that it would be possible to assign

every person with individual ID, and then – easy localization

such person from headquarters.

SOLUTION? SMART RFID!

SMART RFID allows to use other wireless technologies, as well.

It would be possible to use Bluetooth as it would allow WYD

organizers for an extra contact with pilgrims who have phone

with event application and Bluetooth.

Such pilgrims, passing under antennas assembled on the

routes, would automatically receive updated official

information on day schedule, previous day summary or simply

short messages that would systematically build positive image

of Poland and whole event.

AS BONUS

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