Had some experience in Olympic Games and World Cops to
hundreds of thousands of people coming through in any one day.
And with that comes a huge amount of infrastructure you have to build.
One of those big pieces has always been the security
screening. So when we, as an industry,
started really thinking about public assembly security.
Many of us went to the magnetometers.
It was the technology we could use at the moment.
Found that with the Walker metal detectors,
there'd often be lines that sometimes held some people
missing the puck drop. It took an enormous amount of time.
Students were lined up. We saw a crunch at the gates. That
wait time was certainly north of twenty,
thirty minutes to get in.
For a hand wand to be accurate you've gotta be less than one
inch off the body. That's not customer friendly.
It's not. It's intrusive.
We averaged about forty percent had to go back through.
Then there was another percentage that had to even go
through a pat down.
If you don't make it in when the theatre starts,
you have to wait until intermission to get back in.
We try to push people to show up earlier and earlier.
That's not what they see.
They see that we cause them to be late. People are tired of
the long lines and then the same with the staff.
With our traditional mag setup, you needed a hundred and fifty,
two hundred and fifties, two hundred and eighty staff
members. Just for the mags themselves.
You're asking them to turn in their wallet and, you know,
throw their goodies in a box,
not a particularly customer-friendly experience.
We want to be on the cutting edge of technology.
We wanna demo products.
We want to be on the forefront of what the new technology is.
We want to implement that for our fans. To be quite honest,
we looked at a lot of different systems.
We traveled throughout the country.
A lot of different security shows and Evolv really is the best out there.
When we saw the evolve solution,
we were really excited with the opportunity of of lowering
friction in the entry process.
The twelve units that we brought in replaced a hundred
traditional, magnetometers.
We're processing a lot more people and we're catching a lot.
We know that the technology is working because of the
potential weapons that we are finding.
Our staff already knows where to look and what they're checking into.
This really is feels like a free-flowing experience.
It's quick. It's clean.
It's unobtrusive.
But yet we're keeping you safe and secure,
and you're here for the experience.
When I know that everybody has a good time, that's the job
satisfaction that I take out of this. In the end,
they shouldn't really remember this security process,
they should remember the event.