Unattended physical delivery access method and control system

A method for operating a location-sensitive mobile wireless device comprising:

• connecting to an unattended physical access control server (server) at an anchor point;
• authenticating and installing a credential;
• receiving at least one location identifier in the vicinity of a destination;
• sensing and storing at least one location enroute to the destination;
• sensing a location identifier in the vicinity of the destination;
• and
• transmitting to the server at least one location identifier using the credential installed at the anchor point.

A method for operating an unattended physical access control server comprising:

• connecting to a location-sensitive mobile wireless device at an anchor point;
• authenticating the device and installing a credential;
• receiving from the device at least one location identifier enroute to a destination;
• receiving from the device a location identifier in the vicinity of the destination;
• and
• transmitting to a physical access controller at least one command to cause a portal actuator to enable physical access.

An unattended physical delivery access control system comprises:

• a wireless mobile agent communicatively coupled to the following networked apparatus;
• an unattended destination portal;
• at least one location waypoint;
• at least one supplier origination apparatus;
• and
• a cloud-based physical access control server.

A method of operation for an unattended portal access system comprises:

• establishing a credential between at least one supplier origination apparatus and a mobile device;
• transferring destination, journey routing, and transit tokens to said device;
• transacting a transit token with at least one location waypoint;
• and
• performing at least one unattended portal transaction.