Ticketing meets olympic standards
General Manager of Fieldays Barry Quayle says that it’s all about getting people in quickly and readily.
A swift, no-nonsense entry through the Fieldays gate is almost guaranteed this year as at peak times up to five people per second are admitted to the event.
The equipment that scans and tracks more than 120,000 ticket barcodes is based on the technology used during the Sydney Olympics and is responsible for a 35% increase in the speed of exhibitor and visitor entry to Fieldays.
General Manager of Fieldays Barry Quayle says that it’s all about getting people in quickly and readily.
“I remember when we had queues 400m long and 2-3 wide at the main gates before 8am that would 50 minutes to clear. Now we’ve got a third more people lining up before 8am and there’s no queue after eight minutes.”
Exhibitor Margaret Bishop, from Newman Engineering who came in at 6:30am yesterday morning found that the system “works really well” but did note that in seven years they have been attending Fieldays they’ve discovered that arriving early and going through the exhibitors gate is the key to getting in quick.
But even at 7am the line wasn’t moving fast enough for some. Exhibitor Daryl Norrish, national sales manager of Paddon said that scanning each individual ticket in a car took more time than he would’ve liked.
“Three or four minutes is too long to wait around.”
The ticketing and event access management system STREAM, developed by Fieldays in conjunction with the computer science department at the University of Waikato, not only scans and tracks the barcodes but also allows visitors and exhibitors to buy their tickets online and print them at home and has also been adapted so it can be used at other events.
