At next week’s Cartes show in Paris, contactless technology company ASK will announce that ASK TongFang, its joint venture created in 2005, has been selected to manufacture contactless inlays for the 12.2 million RFID tickets of the XXIX Olympiad. Tickets, including anti-counterfeiting printed security features, will be provided by China Bank Note.
ASK’s partner Tsinghua TongFang has donated the whole RFID system to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee which includes the RFID inlays, gate readers, software and service.
Advanced technology such as RFID is part of the security used throughout the Olympic games, and is one of the breakthrough features of the Olympics. ASK and Tsinghua Tongfang hope the games will boost contactless technology deployment in China.
ASK already contributed to the Olympic Games in 2006: for the XXth winter games, Turin public transport authorities and other players implemented contactless technology using ASK contactless cards and tickets.
According to the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee (BOCOG), security is a high priority in the preparation of the games, and RFID tickets will be used for the sales and verification of tickets to eliminate counterfeiting.
ASK Tong Fang RFID tickets are based on ASK’s technology, which uses silver ink printed antenna and flip chip die attach, manufactured at the joint venture manufacturing plant in Miyun, near Beijing.
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