Patent ID: 7119682
Filing Date: 2006-10-10
Classification: E05G,E06B,F42D

Abstract:
1. A facility for crowd screening and protection configured for monitoring a plurality of individuals walking through the facility, and for detecting prohibited articles and substances carried by an individual of the plurality of individuals, comprising: a laterally-fenced walkway (FW) having an FW entrance open at a first upstream end, and an FW exit open at a second downstream end of the fenced walkway, compelling individuals to walk in single line queue over the fenced walkway, a confinement structure (CS) having a CS interior separated from a CS exterior by a peripheral wall accommodating an open CS entrance opening adjacent the FW exit, and an open CS exit opening, the facility being configured for permitting passage of individuals, solely from the FW entrance to the CS exit opening, via the FW exit and the CS entrance opening, at least one one-way passage control device, disposed in the CS interior, operable in a first passage mode for permitting free-passage of an individual, and in a second releasable locked mode for releasably confining a single individual at a time to the CS interior, a monitoring unit (MU) configured for management, control, and operation of the facility, including: