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(11) | EP 0 965 952 A3 |
(12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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(54) | Personnel location control system with informational control message presentation |
(57) A personnel placement and location control system for controlling movement of one
or more individuals to a particular designation. In a preferred embodiment, the location
control system functions as a personnel guidance and location control system for controlling
and guiding one or more individuals in a selected path to a waiting point and then
to an activity in advance of that waiting point or otherwise to a particular destination.
The system relies upon a plurality of indicators or markers which may be secured to
a floor or ground surface or which may be formed on or secured to floor coverings
on that floor surface and which define guide paths for the one or more individuals.
Various floor covering segments can be also secured in desired combinations to achieve
a desired guide path. In one embodiment, a pocket forming section is provided in the
floor covering for receiving a substrate containing informational material. This material
may be in the nature of instructional material or otherwise promotional or advertising
material. The information receiving substrate section is capable of receiving individual
substrates bearing such information in a manner in which they can be readily introduced
or removed from the floor covering material. Moreover, these information bearing substrates
can be a series of advertisements in a pathway or, otherwise, they can identify places
or locations for one or more individuals to stand for either waiting to advance to
an activity or otherwise to stand at that activity. |