I-Teco to Supply Sochi 2014 Olympics
September 30, 2013
Russian IT company I-Teco has been revealed as a supplier to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics as the Unified Identification System.
The deal was agreed by the President of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, symptoms Dmitry Chernyshenko, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of “I-Teco”, Aleksey Remizov.
The UIS will allow accredited persons to have convenient and efficient access to a range of services at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The services supported by the UIS are: Electronic food vouchers for a simplified and accelerated process of obtaining food by Games staff and deferred printing which allows the press to implement delayed printing of pending documents on any printer with a high level of privacy in the media center. Under the terms of the agreement, a Unified Identification System (UIS) will be used at all Olympic venues. The system will provide user authentication based on radio frequency technology.
Specialists of “I-Teco” will both operate and maintain this system which forms a small part of the wider integrated Sochi 2014 Games-technology solution developed and managed by IOC TOP Partner Atos.
During the Test Events in Sochi this year, trial operation of UIS were successfully completed, and the work of the “I-Teco” project team received high praise from the Organizing Committee of the Games.
The President of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, Dmitry Chernyshenko, said: “The I-Teco identification system is one example of a comprehensive approach to creating efficiency for the members of staff at the Games. The experienced specialists of the Russian developer and provider, I-Teco, with whom we will cooperate with as a single united team, will ensure the successful management of the wide range of technical tasks required”.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of “I-Teco”, Aleksey Remizov, added: “For our company, the provision of unique IT services to Games participants has become, to a certain extent, a challenge: to demonstrate the huge intellectual potential in resolving the most complicated humanitarian tasks on the basis of our own innovative developments. I’m sure our professional team will support the highest level of reliability, comfort and efficiency of the service.”