No turnstiles in the lane
A small node on the lane post and an industrial unit in the lift hut. Power and data over a single cable.
Business and guests
Lift access control
Validate passes in the boarding lane with the device, without turnstiles or cards
The challenge
Turnstile and access control systems are among a resort's biggest costs: readers and barriers in every lane, civil works and cabling, cards that are bought and lost, and maintenance and expansions tied to a single supplier. And the data from every passage stays inside their software.
What you control
- Validated passages per lift and hour, and rejections by reason
- Status of every node and gateway and their synchronisation
- Live comparison with your current system (shadow mode)
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Hands-free
The pass travels on the device on the board or skis: nothing to take out of a pocket to board.
Works offline
Every pass is signed: the lane validates it even if the network drops and syncs on reconnection, without losing or duplicating a passage.
Clone-proof
Challenge-response on every read, anti-passback and cancellations that reach every lift.
Your sales stay the same
Passes come from your sales system via API, webhook or CSV. Ticket offices, prices and payments are untouched.
Risk-free pilot
During the pilot it runs alongside your current system in shadow mode: you measure agreement and coverage before deciding.
Everything it does
- BLE validation in the boarding lane with the device on the board or skis
- Signed passes that validate offline
- Challenge-response against clones, anti-passback and cancellations
- Pass import via API, webhook or CSV from your sales system
- Pass linking at sale, in the app or at the ticket office
- Shadow mode alongside your current system, with an agreement report
- Per-resort switch and mode: off, shadow or active
- Passages and arrivals to Lift tickets, throughput to Queues
- Pseudonymised pass references, configurable retention and per-resort deletion
- Passages per hour
- Rejections by reason
- Validation latency
- Nodes online
- Agreement with the current system
- Coverage
What changes compared with a turnstile system
Traditional access control is proprietary hardware in every lane. Snowlytics turns it into software running on small, standard hardware that is cheap to expand.
| Turnstile system | With Snowlytics | |
|---|---|---|
| In the lane | A turnstile with reader and barrier in every lane, with civil works and cabling | A node on the post, with power and data over a single cable |
| The pass | A card or media that is bought, handed out, lost and replaced | The device on the board or skis, linked to the pass |
| Boarding | Taking the card out or holding the pocket to the reader | Hands-free: validated as you pass |
| If the network drops | Depends on the server connection or local lists | The pass is signed: validated offline and synced on reconnection |
| The data | Stays inside the supplier's software | On the same map as queues, lift tickets, safety and radio |
| Expanding or changing | More hardware from the same supplier and its maintenance | Another node on the post; the gateway is standard industrial hardware |
How it works
- 1
Your sales system sends the passes
Via API, webhook or a CSV from your sales system. The platform keeps only a pseudonymised reference.
- 2
The platform signs and distributes them
Each lift receives the signed list and the cancellations, and keeps them to work offline.
- 3
The lane validates on the spot
The node reads the device over BLE and the gateway checks signature, validity, lift and anti-passback.
- 4
Every passage, on the platform
It reaches the dashboard, Lift tickets and Queues exactly once, even through outages.
What you need
- An export or an API from your sales system (a CSV is enough to start)
- Permanent power and a network point in each lift hut (4G backup optional)
- Cable from the hut to the lane posts
- Skiers with the Snowlytics device linked to their pass; anyone without one gets in as today
Start with a pilot in shadow mode
We install the nodes on one or two lifts next to your turnstiles. Your system stays in charge and ours only records what it would have decided. With the shadow report (agreement, false positives and negatives, coverage) you decide with your own resort's data.
Pricing depends on the lifts and lanes: we prepare the proposal together with the pilot.
Request a pilot
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to remove my turnstiles?
No. The pilot runs alongside them in shadow mode, and replacement is decided with the agreement and coverage data from your own resort.
Does it open or close the barrier?
Not in this version. Every read results in a record, never a command to a barrier. Actuating a boarding gate requires certified hardware and is the lift operator's decision and responsibility.
What if the network goes down?
Every pass is signed, so the lane validates it offline. Passages are stored on the gateway and sent on reconnection, never lost or duplicated.
Can a pass be copied?
Every read is a challenge only the linked device can answer, and anti-passback prevents the same pass being used twice in a row.
Does it replace my sales system?
No. Ticket offices, prices, online sales and payments stay as they are: the platform only validates access.
What personal data does it keep?
No pass reference in clear: it is stored pseudonymised with a key unique to your resort, with configurable retention and full deletion of the resort.
Works with
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