The art of making an entrance

In our modern world, people are now very used to the principal of technology controlling the access and security of our lives and this includes the use of speed gates, speed lanes and turnstiles within our place of work, where we socialise, where we exercise and even the transport hubs we use in between.

The word ‘turnstiles’ is the generic industry term, but depending on how we perceive or use them they are also referred to as other names, including the following;
ticker barriers, ticket gates, card barriers, pass card barriers, speed lanes, pedestrian barriers, security lanes, reception gates, reception barriers, access control barriers and automatic pedestrian gates. Other manufacturers may also refer to them as SpeedLane™ or FastLane™, but ultimately they are all devices or systems that control the access or flow of pedestrians.

Although turnstile is a word that perhaps conjures up the picture of a utilitarian full height metal galvanised cage, with rotating metal bars that rotate as you pass through at a sports stadium, or a waist height horizontal rotating tripod device at the library. The term ‘turnstile’ can now also generically refer to speed gates or speed lanes that are sleek, modern and contemporary pieces of equipment designed for a modern world and made from glass and stainless steel and sometimes incorporating plastics.

So whatever terminology you prefer or know them as, welcome to the modern world of turnstiles. These are now pieces of equipment that can be finished in a material sympathetically to blend into their surroundings or wrapped in advertising to stand out as a marketing media.

We can control and integrate turnstiles with a range of different access control systems using a wealth of media from out ID cards, fobs, tokens and biometrics, to our mobile phones and credit cards.

In the world of modern speed gates and speed lanes, anything now seems possible, you just need to be speaking to the right company.