The advantages with the combination use of active RFID ZONER™ badge and passive RFID includes:
- Close to 100% read rate over a adjustable zone from 10 ft and beyond.
- Besides the ability to provide non-obtrusive and non-intrusive monitoring of session attendance, the system is now capable to monitor exhibition hall isle traffic to help the show organizer in assessing the layout for future shows.
- Optional mutual alerts to bring the buyers and the exhibitors together when the attendees is within 10 ft of the exhibitor booth.
Trade-shows and events that have seminars and other special sessions can benefit from our RFID badge and reader by encoding these privilleges on the badge without the need to issue special tickets. Our RFID badges have READ/WRITE capabilities, so updating a badge after a participant purchases a pass to an event can be done in seconds.
ATTENDEE BADGES ARE NOT JUST FOR LEAD RETRIEVAL APPLICATION ANYMORE
While the same card and badge with 2-D barcode can still be functioning just the same for bearing the demographic data of the attendees and visitors, additional functions can now be imparted on the same badge embedded with long-range read distance UHF RFID chip-antenna. With the dramatic improvements with anti-collision and dense-reader protocols developed over the last few years for the EPC applications, the read distance with long-range reader-antenna can reach as far as 15-30 ft. While used as attendee badge worm by human body, the read distance is generally decreased substantially but can now be engineered to provide adequate read range with minimal orientation dependence for an effective portal width of 10-ft and wider with multiple portals.
When needs for even longer read range and dramatically enhanced visitor security, the active RFID solution of ZONER-RELAYER badge reader solution may be used in conjuction with the 2-D barcode or passive HF card-badge. Mutual interests alert is one of the few benefits that are made feasible with AVANTE patented RFID solution for the exhibitors. The AVANTE LRS-reader signals an attendees with product interest match is nearby (not name or badge ID). The second generation of AVANTE tradeshow and event management with RFID also combines the benefits of both passive RFID for lead retrieval application and active RFID badge for attendance audit and management.
The following diagram is an illustration on the use of the ZONER™ combo badge in attendance reporting of hall and isles traffics, break-out sessions attendance, and CEU or other educational credits training records.
The AVANTE RFID Portals offer automatic, non-obtrusive and non-intrusive attendance monitoring
Monitoring tradeshow and event attendance using RFID badge and reader is a patented application of AVANTE. Each attendee badge contains an active RFID ZONER™ chip that beacons or response upon polling near a RELAYER™ portal reader within a typical 10 ft range. A passive RFID chip embedded along side provides the traditional lead retrieval data application in this combo badge.
Many information derived from the captured data on attendance records may be useful for the organizer to plan and improve the execution of their future tradeshows and events.
