TICKET DISPENSER & ENTRY LANE CONTROL TOWER

This tower is designed to provide all the features that maybe needed for control at the entrance. It can accommodate any combination of the following devices:

• Ticket Dispenser: This can print a ticket with the data, time, lane #, ticket # etc. in regular print as well as bar-code formats. This ticket can be issued automatically or as soon as the flashing "Touch-for-ticket" button is used.

• Card Reader: that can read the access card of monthly parkers. This card reader can be a separate unit that is mounted on the front of the Tower or can be an embedded AMSmart reader that offers long read range (about 12" from the front surface of the tower) and is also usable as a read/write device with the "Prepaid" (Debit) cards used by some transient parkers.

• Back-lit LCD Display: A large character, 4line LCD display provides user instructions in up to two languages at every step of the transaction.

• Optional Voice Instructions: A separate voice module is available that will offer instructions in audio. Surveys show that some parkers prefer voice instructions over instructions provided on the LCD display.

• Credit Card Reader: Shall accept any major credit card.

• Intercom: Most towers include one of the following two forms of intercoms:

  1. Hardwired Intercom station that is connected to a master station located nearby in the building.

  2. Telephone Intercom that automatically dials a number and gets assistance from the person on that number. This is ideal where the Help is coming from a remote location or from a guard who is carrying a cell-phone while on roving patron on the premises.

• Interlocks: The system offers many different interlocks for proper operation. Some of these include

  1. Card/Ticket/CC interlock: This assures that the parker can only use one of the access modes available to him. So a card user cannot take a ticket and so on.

  2. Vehicle present interlock: None of the control options will be active unless there is a vehicle present on the arming loop in front of the tower.

  3. Ticket Such-back Interlock: If a ticket is issued but not retrieved, the system will automatically suck-back this ticket and reset the gate system for the next parker.

  4. Specialized Interlocks: Depending on the application, different interlock systems can be programmed in the controller.

• TCP/IP Controller: The heart of the system is this high-power controller that monitors all the activity in the lane and provides the interaction to the central PC via a LAN/WAN interconnection that is standard in most locations (the conventional RS485 communication option is also available).