Theme park gamification, guest tracking and access control system

A method for allowing a person to gain self-verified access to a premises by sequentially passing through a first and a second premises access point without requiring the person to divulge any of personal data including biometric data to the premises or the first or second access point, comprising the steps of:

• 1) providing a premises self-access app for use by the person on a mobile computing device available to the person, where the app is capable of determining a current geographic location;
• 2) providing to the app, determining by the app, or otherwise including with the app access control data, where the access control data at least includes one biometric type considered sufficient for confirming the person's identity;
• 3) requiring that the person use the app to provide initial personal registration data to the app prior to first entering the premises through the second access point and at a current geographic location determined at least in part by the app to be outside of the premises, where the initial personal registration data includes at least one registration biometric of the person, where the at least one registration biometric is of a type matching the at least one biometric type, and where the personal registration data is not shared by the app with the premises or the first or second access point;
• 4) requiring that the person use the app after passing through the first access point into a confirmation area to provide subsequent personal confirmation data to the app prior to entering the premises through the second access point, where the subsequent personal confirmation data includes a at least one confirmation biometric of the person, where the at least one confirmation biometric is of a type matching the type of the at least one initial registration biometric, and where the subsequent personal confirmation data is not shared by the app with the premises or the first or second access point;
• 5) using the app while the person remains within the confirmation area to compare the at least one confirmation biometric to the at least one registration biometric of the same biometric type in order to determine an indication of identity match for use as access control data, and
• 6) using the app to provide the access control data to the second access point at least including or based upon the determined indication of identity match, where the provided access control data does not include any of the personal information including the biometric data, and where if the indication is affirmative the second access point permits the person to enter the premises and if the indication is not affirmative the second access point does not permit the person to enter the premises.

A system for allowing a person to gain self-verified access to a premises by passing through a succession of first and second access points without requiring the person to divulge any of personal data including biometric data to the premises or the first and second access points and without requiring that the person come into physical contact with, or remotely interact with, a premises access control device for confirming the person's identity, comprising:

• personal means for allowing the person to self-conduct a validation process conforming to premises rules preestablished for validly entering the premises, where the premises rules cause the personal means to 1) restrict any one or more steps in the validation process to physically occur within a confirmation area defined or otherwise inferred in the premises rules, where the perimeter of the confirmation area is substantially bounded to restrict and control entry by the person into the confirmation area and exit by the person out of the confirmation area, where the confirmation area can only be reasonably entered from outside of the confirmation area through the first access point not leading from the premises and the confirmation area can only be reasonably exited from inside the confirmation area through the second access point leading into the premises or through a third access point not leading into the premises, where the first, second, and third access points provide information for updating a current status associated with the validation process, and
• premises access means comprising the first, second, and third access points for interacting with the personal means to ensure that the self-conducted validation process was sufficiently conducted in accordance with the premises rules, where the premises access means permits the person to enter the premises if the validation process was sufficiently conducted and otherwise does not permit the person to enter the premises, and where the personal means does not provide any personal data including biometric data with the premises access means.