PROJECT Project Area SECURITY AND ACCESS CONTROL

Achieved for PAOK

Requirement COMPLETE ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM FOR “” STADIUM

PAOK Thessaloniki, also known as team not only in Thessaloniki PAOK FC, is a sports society with its but also in Northern Greece. CLIENT PROFILE head office in Thessaloniki, Greece, The team official colours are black where it was also founded in 1926, and white, in vertical stripes. Paok CLIENT: by Greeks who took refuge from has won 2 national titles (1975/76 PAOK THESSALONIKI ( today). and 1984/85) and 4 Greece Cups. SECTOR: The society is known especially This cup was the last trophy won, SPORTS SOCIETY for its football team, which in 2002/03, versus Aris Salonicco. NTERNET SITE: plays in the major league of This year the team finished the www.paokfc.gr the Greek championship. season in second place in the Greek During the years, Paok has Championship and qualified in the become the most famous football next Champions League edition. CLIENT REQUIREMENTS

The Greek society’s main requirement avoid abusive entrances. installation stages to those of start-up was to find the best access manage- However it was necessary to have ac- and successive technical assistance. ment system for the Thessaloniki cess control and ticket management With this purpose, Paok has chosen “Toumba” stadium, where the team’s solutions that could be integrated com- partners such as TicketHour, a Greek home matches are played, in order to pletely, in a single system. company specialized in solutions for better supervise spectators flow and Paok FC has decided to rely on suppliers online ticket management, and Zuc- reduce as much as possible the violent that were capable to plan and carry out chetti Group that provided a complete scenes at the entrances gates, prevent such a system, from the planning and solution for access control at stadium and repress dangerous behaviours and entrances.

ACHIEVED PROJECT

The solution provided by Zucchetti UEFA certified and guarantee a rapid an efficient check of the total number has a structure of turnstiles controlled spectator flow (a single passage, for of entrances. The system also regi- completely automatically by a hardwa- a total of 800 transits per hour at any sters automatic entrances and manual re and software system developed and passing point). unblockings made by the steward; the- achieved in-house. The reading terminals are equipped refore the specified number is guaran- with double Barcode reader for a bi- teed to be the real one. HARDWARE directional title reading and with RFID SOFTWARE The entrances of the Thessaloniki multistandard 13,56 MHz reader. Mo- “”, with a capacity of reover, they have a display that indi- Handheld terminals as well as reading 28.000 spectators, were equipped with cates the total number of the persons terminals are equipped with the best 30 readers for BARCODE tickets and who entered the stadium, the flows per Zucchetti software for Access Mana- RFID MIFARE subscription badges, whi- sector and turnstile. gement, configured on-line and acti- ch control 14 double turnstiles and 2 vely monitoring passing points, in real If necessary (for example, for public or- single ones for the VIP and press areas. time. This means that the access rights der problems) the keypad can be used These readers unblock the turnstiles and white lists are directly and univo- for manually unblocking and deactiva- (therefore granting access) once the cally controlled by the application and ting the access point. authenticity of the access title has been transit data is directly registered by the verified. The system thus developed allows ve- software. rifying the authenticity of the access For some entrances WiFi Handheld Therefore, even if the access title is title, denying access to the stadium for Terminals have also been used. The read by handheld or reading terminals, those who use fake tickets and allowing full height and anti-climb turnstiles are the information is centrally managed.

Project info: Zucchetti S.p.A. Via Solferino, 1 – 26900 Lodi (Italy) Tel. +39 0371/594.24.44 E-mail: [email protected] INTEGRATION OF TICKET SYSTEM enabled at the entrance; thus it is im- The purpose of using a system based AND ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM possible to insert fake access titles, not on interface DB between the Automa- The interface between the Automated processed by the ticket system. tic Ticket System and Access Control Ticket System created by TicketHour The interface between the Ticket Sy- is to release both systems of the need and Zucchetti Access Control System stem and Access Control is practically to know the implementation and orga- was achieved through a protocol of established by the list of released ac- nizational details specific to the coun- control and action rules that guarantee cess titles and by the total number of terparty, which can thus be performed an immediate answer from the system rules for accessing the stadium. There- even asynchronously on systems and as well as complete security. fore, an interface Database is used to different environments simply acces- sing the interface table. Practically the sold tickets are imme- populate the systems’ tables/fields and diately elaborated by the system and to acquire the status of variable data.

Statistical data about the actual capacity are updated in real time Possible anomalies are highlighted on each gate with signalling explanatory icons in real time

WHY ZUCCHETTI?

Chrisostomus Gagatisis - General Stefanos Kakarantzas - Ticket Hour which allowed the sports company to in- manager Paok FC vice-president/CEO crease revenue. Moreover, considering the “The project has been accomplished and “We are very pleased with the success two matches held at Paok, with the system tested, perfectly respecting the schedule. obtained by our system and we personal- in function, we estimated that 2000 sup- Zucchetti access control system met all ly noticed the reliability and experience porters, who once could have entered the our requirements completely, allowing of Zucchetti staff that assisted us during stadium abusively, now had to purchase a the secure and organized management planning and installation. ticket in order to see the match.” of supporters flow to the stadium, consi- Paok F.C. is the first team in Greece to stently reducing risks for person integrity have an on-line ticket solution, completely and also entrance times.” integrated with an access control system

Project info: Zucchetti S.p.A. Via Solferino, 1 – 26900 Lodi (Italy) Tel. +39 0371/594.24.44 E-mail: [email protected]