Door lock with remote vein reader

A biometric door lock system for an enclosed space comprising:

• an enclosure (10) having a plurality of side walls (16), a floor (18) and a top panel (74), the side walls (16), floor (18) and top panel (74) are connected together to form a storage chamber, an opening (20) is provided in one of the side walls (16), floor (18) or top panel (74), a door (22) is moveably connected to the enclosure (10) for selectively covering the opening and to provide ingress and egress to the interior space of the storage chamber when in an open position,
• a lock mechanism (26) constructed and arranged to selectively lock and prevent the door (22) from being opened and to selectively unlock to allow access to the interior space upon identification of the user, the lock mechanism including a door lock controller (100), the door lock controller including a proximity switch (134) positioned to sense the position of the user's hand for initiating the imaging module (128) wherein the user need not contact the imaging module (128) to operate the lock mechanism (26) the lock controller including an imaging module (128) for identifying the user attempting to open the lock mechanism, the imaging module (128) mounted remote from the lock mechanism (26), the imaging module (128) electrically communicating with the lock mechanism (26) to provide user identification to the lock mechanism (26) for remote operation of the lock mechanism (26), the imaging module (128) including a light source for selectively directing light having an infrared or near infrared wavelength toward the user's hand causing the vessels in the hand to contrast with adjacent tissue, a camera (137) positioned in the imaging module (128) for taking an identification photographic image of the contrasted vessels for comparison to a vessel control photographic image (116) stored in the internal memory of the imaging module, wherein the door lock controller (100) processes the identification image data, wherein a match of the two contrasted identification photographic image and the vessel control photographic images causes the imaging module to electrically communicate with the lock mechanism (26) to unlock and allow access to the interior space of the enclosure (10).