Patent ID: 7145433

Claim:
A system for controlling transportation or controlling access of persons and/or goods in a building, comprising: at least one story terminal for recognition of at least one identification code of a person or an item; at least one insertable bus module having a data bank for a user profile, a first of the at least one bus module comprising at least a job manager; a lift control independent from the at least one story terminal; a signal bus for interconnecting said at least one bus module, at least one story terminal, and lift control; and one data memory for storing at least one user profile of the person or item or processor for associating a user profile with a recognized identification code, at least one of the story terminal, lift control, and an input/output bus configured for receipt of the at least one bus module, the at least one bus module communicating with the at least one story terminal by way of a signal bus, the at least one story terminal, lift control and at least one bus module each forming nodal points of the signal bus.