Case study · project completed
ALIST — exhibition registration
A website, a local network and hardware — one solution that ran exhibitions, conferences and events.
A system we built and operated for years for the K.B. Chernobilsky Group, serving dozens of exhibitions, conferences and events: online registration, payment collection, photographing registrants on site and producing orderly reports.
The project has ended, and this page describes the system as it worked — an example of joining a website, a local network and a range of hardware into a single solution.
The website
A landing page per exhibition
Every exhibition defined in the system got a landing page in its own design, and registration started there.
A barcoded ticket, with the invoice
Once registered, the visitor received the tickets by email, with a barcode on the ticket and a copy of the invoice. They printed them and arrived with them.
Reports for the organisers
The organisers signed in to the same site and saw how many had registered and how many actually turned up.
Three kinds of station on site
Staffed station
A host identified pre-registered visitors by barcode, registered new visitors and exhibitors, issued badges and infrared tags, photographed them for identification at the gate, captured business cards and charged credit cards.
Self-service station
A touch screen where the visitor did everything a host does — including the photograph, the payment and an invoice printed on the spot.
Entrance gate
At the hall entrance the guard saw on screen the photograph of whoever asked to come in, and whether they were cleared to. The photograph had been captured earlier at one of the other two stations.
The on-site deployment
The hardware the system drove
Cameras, barcode readers, credit-card readers, label printers, thermal invoice printers, a business-card scanner and infrared tag readers — all attached to the stations and driven from the system. On site itself we deployed a server, a switch and a wireless router, with a cellular modem for the link out.
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