"Expo Core" Makes Fake Tickets Have Nowhere To Hide

Since the opening of the Shanghai World Expo, the cumulative number of visitors has exceeded 12 million, which means that more than 12 million Expo tickets have passed through the ticket gate, leading tourists to the world. According to the statistics of the organizer, since the opening of the park, only single digit tourists have been blocked out due to ticket bending or serious damage. "It can be said that it is the core technology of 'Expo Core' with independent intellectual property rights that makes Expo tickets pass the entrance examination," said Chen Jianbo, vice president of Shanghai Huahong Group, the designer and manufacturer of Expo tickets.

What's more pleasing is that the "Expo Core" is the first large-scale comprehensive application of RFID technology, which also provides various possibilities for the "post Expo era". At the theme event held by the Shanghai World Expo organizers on June 10, experts together imagined the future of the "Expo Core".

Fake tickets, nowhere to hide

[On site] As soon as the park opened yesterday, at the entrance and exit of Houtan, tourists gently inserted the Expo ticket into the gate. Within one second, a strip of "2010EXPO" indentation appeared on both sides of the ticket spit out by the gate, and the gate opened immediately, allowing tourists to enter the park smoothly.

Such an ordinary scene is behind the high-tech "Expo Core" in the ticket, of which the most important feature is high anti-counterfeiting. Chen Jianbo said that the key to anti-counterfeiting is that the "Expo core" in each ticket has a unique set of codes. The ticket gate verifies the ticket and opens the gate through the identification code. "Some people say that as long as the encoding program is cracked, tickets can be created - but this is also impossible." Fan Heng, general manager of Huahong Smart Card System Company, added that the encoding and encryption methods of each ticket are different, which can not only ensure the uniqueness of tickets, but also effectively prevent malicious cracking and tampering. Relying on the double anti-counterfeiting measures of coding, there has been no real fake tickets for the Shanghai World Expo so far.

[Future] "In the future, there may be no fake concert tickets." Experts said that through this large-scale use, the "Expo Core" represents that China's RFID technology has been quite mature and can be applied to other tickets, especially for concerts, concerts and other tickets with high unit prices. It is reported that at present, the means of counterfeiting tickets by criminals are various, and the cost of some counterfeiting means is not low. However, because the price of concert tickets is relatively high and the market demand is large, lawbreakers feel profitable, so they take risks. However, the high technical threshold of RFID and the complex coding method make it impossible for criminals to catch up. In addition, the relevant parties have developed a ticket verification terminal for tickets with RFID technology. As long as the buyer swipes the ticket on the terminal, it can distinguish the authenticity without using the ticket.

Flow of people, timely evacuation

[Scene] Just after 9:00 yesterday, Ms. Fang's family, who took the subway line 7 to the Expo Park, heard the subway broadcast: "At present, the entrance and exit of Changqing North Road is crowded, so tourists are advised to choose other entrances and exits to enter the park." Every day, whether at home, on the bus or on the subway, the public can access the Expo Park through TV Broadcast to obtain the real-time number of visitors to the Expo Park and the conditions of major entrances and exits. But at the entrance and exit of the park, we have never seen the security personnel count the number of people. How are these data obtained?

"This is also the credit of the 'Expo Core'." Chen Jianbo explained that another function of the 'Expo Core' is statistics, which can instantly transmit the information about entering the park to the headquarters of the park and then release it to the public. Moreover, relying on these data can also ease the flow of passengers. "When a large travel group enters the park through security check, the command center will receive the data from the 'Expo Core' in the team ticket returned from the entrance gate; if there are more individual tourists at the same exit at this time, the command center will immediately arrange buses to transport tourists to the more leisurely entrance."

[In the future] "The subway entrance and exit are no longer congested" may also be possible with the help of RFID technology. At present, Shanghai restricts the flow of some subway stations in some periods of time, an important reason is that there is no other way to dredge, and only the "one size fits all" mode of not letting the station enter. However, if the statistical function is added to the traffic card, the relevant parties can let tourists enter from different entrances and exits by means of broadcast reminders, shuttle bus transfers, etc. Experts said that RFID technology has been used in the traffic card to realize the non-contact swiping card to enter the station. In the future, as long as the entrance and exit gates and chips are slightly improved, the real-time data statistics function of the subway entrance and exit gates can be realized. The data can be refreshed once every two minutes and sent to the service center in time, providing a basis for the operation unit to take dredging measures.

Paper jam, environmentally friendly and durable

[Site] On the afternoon of June 10, sporadic drizzle wet the paper Expo tickets in the hands of tourists, but did not affect their speed of entry. Many tourists said that the two indentations on the tickets not only help distinguish whether the tickets have been used or not, but also leave them the unique marks of the Shanghai World Expo, which are practical and beautiful.

However, in the eyes of experts, there is another meaning of the difference between paper-based tickets and indentation, that is, the use of green technology on tickets. The "Expo Core" is only 1 square millimeter in size, and its thickness is similar to that of printing paper, so cardboard paper can hide it in it. The hard cardboard that can be naturally degraded in the natural environment and the plastic material that gives up the traditional ticket will be used. The small "Expo core" will bring more green tickets for the Shanghai World Expo. The design of indentation is different from the previous drilling method. One important reason is that it can avoid paper scraps, which not only keeps the entrance clean, but also reduces the burden of cleaning personnel.

[Future] Nowadays, there are many kinds of tickets. Some shopping malls and restaurants also provide discount cards, discount cards, shopping cards and other consumer cards. These consumer cards are often limited by the size and thickness of the chip. Even disposable cards are made of plastic, which will produce a lot of pollutants after being discarded. However, the practice of Expo tickets has provided new possibilities for consumer cards. Both the production materials and the verification methods can adopt more green means. Experts also revealed that the production cost of Expo tickets is not high, even lower than some elegant plastic consumer cards, which also provides a basis for the comprehensive promotion of green cards.