Patent ID: 8779889
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: G07C

Abstract:
1. A system for regulating access to one or more resources by a plurality of users, the system comprising: a plurality of portable access keys, each portable access key being provided to one of the plurality of users and having a variable access parameter associated therewith; a subsystem for each of said one or more resources, comprising: a controller, arranged to set an access criterion for the access barrier of each of said one or more resources based on the determined access queue characteristic; wherein the controller is further arranged to set the access barrier of each of said one or more resources in its open state if the variable access parameter determined by the detector meets the access criterion; wherein the plurality of users do not need to pre-register to gain passage through the access barrier of each of said one or more resources; wherein the variable access parameter of each of said portable access keys is defined as a number of units, and the access criterion for each of said resources is defined by a threshold level of said units; and wherein the controller is configured to adjust the threshold level in response to an adjustment in the access queue characteristic.