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Access control and customer management with SkiData in France

  • CHALLENGE : Personalization and delivery of ski passes as a self service
  • MARKET : Leisure and entertainment
  • APPLICATIONS : Access control and customer management
  • EVOLIS SOLUTION : Evolis Kiosk
 

Self service ski passes, anytime thanks to the Evolis kiosk

“We’ve pioneered the idea of a hands-free ski pass that provides appreciable benefits for both the skiers and the ski resort”, explains Guy Tessereau, Deputy Managing Director, SKIDATA.

 These high-profile ski resorts highly rated by winter sports fans and die-hard enthusiasts are faced with the challenge of welcoming huge crowds during the ski season. To streamline access to the ski runs and optimize customer experience, these resorts, and many others, have called upon the expertise of SKIDATA to deploy fully automated vending machines to issue ski passes.

SKIDATA is a key player in this buoyant market, supplying vending machines that deliver personalized passes on plastic (or on paper) to ski resorts. These passes are often RFID-enabled, leveraging this wireless technology to grant or deny access to the ski runs, without requiring the skier to show his personal pass for visual identification or scanning purposes.

An Evolis Kiosk printer integrated into the SKIDATA vending machine supports the entire Pass personalization process. This printer core is tailor-made and benefits from 2 card feeders with a capacity of 500 cards, to print on rewritable plastic cards or disposable tickets.
Such passes can be supplied and updated on a 24/7 basis from a user-friendly menu that is freely available in the customer’s own language. This is a perfect alternative to irritatingly lengthy lines at counters and access gates to the ski runs. This fluid process, which is highly praised by skiers, is also a vehicle for flexibility

 

Evolis Kiosk: card printing for large-scale projects

Evolis Kiosk is an achievement of the Large Projects line of business at Evolis, where the objective is to design printers suitable for decentralized personalization of cards, often within the scope of large-scale deployments. Each project is unique, and a detailed requirement analysis is critical in determining if the project is technically and financially viable.

“Our job is to provide a customized printer, ready to be integrated into a comprehensive card issuance solution for major projects” , continues Sébastien Goubault.

Today, this activity runs smoothly and it has enabled Evolis to tap many new markets, such as security applications, loyalty programs, or transport passes (RATP Navigo passes in France). It has also facilitated several banks in the decentralized issuance of their payment cards.

 

 
Interview

Outstanding support and reliability

In the interview, Guy Tessereau, Deputy Managing Director, SKIDATA France, answer to this questions:

What are the core businesses at SKIDATA* ? Why did you select EVOLIS? Can you tell us about your future projects?

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