The palace of sports Zenit implemented the system of biometric identification

On May 28, 2015 it became known of implementation in a complex of home stadium of Football Club Zenit of a system of video access control of fans on sporting events of SmartTracker.Arena. Integrator and the developer Center of Speech Technologies company^[1].

Project Progress

Installation of the SmartTracker.Arena complex as a part of which the software, video cameras and servers, proceeded from June to September, 2014. The complex is set at an input on Petrovsky Stadium where it is integrated with a management system for tourniquets, in several most problem, fan sectors.

Screenshot of a window of the program of identification, 2014

Project Results

Before tourniquets any fan shall look at the video cameras installed about them. If not to make it, identification will not be automatic and pass is blocked. The fan in this case will ask to take two steps back and to show the face. Blocking of tourniquets comes also in attempts of penetration on stadium of fans from the black list, but at the same time there is also an adequate notice of the stewards servicing a match and police officers.

On recognition of the personality a system needs no more than two seconds. According to representatives of football club, it does not affect capacity of a system of admission on stadium in any way. Fans already learned to look in video cameras even when approaching to tourniquets.

A system helps to identify offenders during the matches, not to allow on house games of Zenit of fans to which visit of stadium by a court decision is forbidden. For 11 home games played within the championship of Russia, the Champions League and the Europa League, a system identified more than 40 thousand admirers of a command and did not allow on stadium of 10 hooligans who tried to pass through tourniquets contrary to the injunction.

"Investments of club in creation of the SmartTracker.Arena system and its installation on fan sectors made about 4 million rubles. These costs already with interest paid off. We saved 10 million rubles on penalties for behavior of fans. We calculate that the scope the system of all sectors will cost us no more than 20 million rubles" — Maxim Mitrofanov, the CEO of F.C. Zenit told.

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