When you use a train station or attend a football match or even you visit an amusement park, you definitely find a tripod turnstile gate. These types of the tripod are cost effective and compact for the solution of the entrance. It comes with high reliability and very low amount of power consumption. Tripods are supremely effective for the external and internal area use, a custom design resolution of a standard version. It is best to use at the place there constant and large flow of mass.
These types of barriers are used to control access and to make to easier your life by giving the proper reception to the staff at your office entrance or at the entrance of any industrial installations, administrative buildings, offices, banks or at many other places. These are reliable, quick and user-friendly. Their tried-and-tested organize technology may regulate people flow with the easy process even at the busiest time schedule of a day. Tripod turnstiles are compatible with every kind of ID readers.
Turnstile and its history
It was Clarence Saunders, who has first used the turnstile at his shop. He is the founder of Piggly Wiggly Chain and he used that in the 20th century to avoid mass hysteria and overcrowding at his shop. His shop was the first supermarket so the crowd was very obvious and to produce security he has chosen the option of Turnstile and the tripod turnstile has invented just after that.
The technique of turnstile caught very soon as a reason to controlling the exit and entry and before that these were being utilized in the large and crowded venues. Tripod turnstile was first used at the sporting venue of UK, in Glasgow’s Hamden Park Stadium. It was officially used or installed at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach in 1915 to control the crowds of summer.
Reason to use turnstiles as Access Control System
Turnstile is initially used to crown control but with the modern inventions, the use of turnstile gate increased widely even for other purposes too.
- For creating the fare gates to paid access entry
- To restrict the access of pedestrian in a crowded venue
- For increasing the security level.
- To prevent the exit or access to any emergency situation
Types of Turnstile gates
The use of turnstile is very wide nowadays.
It can prove as more effective to your organization, but you can make it more beneficial by using this with other security systems like intercom, CCTV, and barriers. There are different types of turnstiles which are used for various purposes including admission control of a venue, crowd control or to provide complete security.
Full Height Turnstiles: Full height turnstile is worked like the revolving door and the height of each door is 2 meters. The height of the turnstile makes this impossible to jump over the barrier by anybody. These types of turnstiles are mostly used in the sports arena of the world, especially in the football stadium. It can be accessed by the methods of numbers such as the scanner or the manual system card reader. These gates are best to provide strict entry system security.
There also the swing gate and drop arm in this list.
