[Technical] Designing an Access Control Application for Convention Event Management
In order to implement a crowd management system which is capable of capping the number of attendees in a given area, provides for security in making sure that the system can't be subverted by a bad actor from outside, and which is fast and easy to train new users on, you can use the commonly available cell phone, a custom web app, and cheaply printed custom tear-off tickets with sequential UPC to build a scalable, robust implementation. Requirements Controlling entry into a public space, a number of things have to be present in order to be possible. Note that this discussion doesn't discuss controlling or tracking exits from an event space. An area with clear bottlenecks, of at most two-person wide entries Staff interested in and empowered to control entry at the bottlenecks A means of controlling and tracking individual entries to the space A cell phone or tablet with camera for each controlling staffer Staff within the space interested in , trained, and empowered to contr...