Unless they don't use typical barcode scanners. I'm thinking photo recognition scanners - they point the camera on their smartphone at the screen of the barcode

Unless they don't use typical barcode scanners. I'm thinking photo recognition scanners - they point the camera on their smartphone at the screen of the barcode to be scanned; the app sends the decoded data to the server and gets a success or denied along with ticketholder info (name, etc)....