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What are turnstiles?

Turnstiles are a kind of pedestrian access blocking device (access control management equipment), which is mainly used to control and manage the pedestrian flow and regulate pedestrian access in various scenes in real life. That's the answer about what are turnstiles?The most basic and core function of a turnstile is to pass only one person at a time, which can be used at the entrance passage of various charging and access control occasions. Turnstiles are generally composed of a mechanism, chassis, blocking rod, control module, and some auxiliary modules such as alarm, counting, traffic detection, and so on.

Mairs types of turnstiles have ultra-high cost performance and provide high-quality services, so our security turnstiles are very popular in many countries and can be seen in many cities around the world, such as Germany, Australia, Poland, Romania, Canada, Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, Moldova, UK, Italy, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, USA.

Turnstyle or Turnstile?

Turnstyle or turnstile? In fact, “turnstyle” is the writing habit of people in some places, or it can also be said that it is a wrong spelling of turnstile, which actually expresses a meaning. Therefore, we don’t have to worry about turn style or turnstile and how to write this word turnstyle or turnstile. If you need a turn style or turnstile, you can contact us. We provide various pedestrian access turnstile gate. Of course, we can also customize types of turnstiles according to your actual needs.

Although turnstyle is a wrong way of writing about the turnstile product, we need not pay too much attention to this situation, because there are many wrong spellings in the world due to various regional and cultural reasons, but people can understand the correct meaning. In addition, most countries in Europe are used to spelling like a turnstyle, while the United States and Canada are used to spelling like a turnstile. These two words can express the same meaning.

The function of turnstiles

The function of turnstiles is to control the flow of people and regulate pedestrian access. Say it in more detail, the basic core function of the turnstile is to pass only one person at a time.

This is the biggest function of turnstiles. However, with the continuous development of pedestrian turnstiles in recent years, the emergence of intelligent pedestrian turnstiles has changed the disadvantage of a single function. Intelligent pedestrian turnstiles can be associated with card readers, fingerprint recognition, iris recognition, face recognition, etc to form an intelligent pedestrian turnstile gate, which can avoid the investment of many human resources such as manual ticket checking, at the same time, it can also be linked with the attendance system and monitoring system to form an intelligent management platform.