Systems and Methods for Electronic Ticketing, Monitoring, and Indicating Permissive Use of Facilities

A networked arrangement of devices comprising:

• a plurality of wearable electronic devices, where each of the plurality of wearable electronic devices comprises a wireless network adapter, a visual indicator having a state, an accelerometer and a wirelessly readable identification tag, and one or more processors executing programming logic;
• a plurality of terminals, where each of the plurality of terminals comprises a visual display, a user interface, an wireless identification tag data reader, a network adapter, and one or more processors executing processing logic;
• a server system comprising a network adapter and one or more processors executing programming logic;
• a primary network;
• and
• a secondary network, where the secondary network is a wireless network;
• where the wireless network adapter of each of the plurality of wearable electronic devices communicates with the secondary network, where the network adapter of each of the plurality of terminals communicates with the primary network;
• where the programming logic of each of the plurality of terminals is configured to:
• receive identification data from the wireless identification tags of the wearable electronic devices;
• send the identification data to the server system via the network adapter;
• receive transaction data from the server system via the network adapter;
• and
• display a message through the visual display;
• where the programming logic of the server is configured to:
• receive the identification data from one of the plurality of terminals via the network adapter of the server system;
• determine an account associated with the identification data;
• process a transaction associated with the determined account;
• send the transaction data to one of the plurality of terminals via the network adapter of the server system;
• send status data to the wearable device via the network adapter of the server system;
• where the programming logic of each of the plurality of wearable devices is configured to:
• receive status data from the server system via the respective network adapter of the respective wearable device;
• and
• wait a period of time specified by the status data and then alter the state of the visual indicator.

A method of providing visual indication of permission for a user to access an area comprising the steps of:

• reading identification data from a wearable device secured to a user;
• receiving user input data from a user interface of a terminal;
• sending the identification data from the wearable device and user input data from the terminal to a server system over a primary network;
• determining an account associated with the identification data;
• processing a transaction utilizing the user input data and the account;
• sending status data to the wearable device over a secondary wireless network;
• and
• altering a visual indicator of the wearable device to indicate permission to access an area.

A networked system comprising:

• a plurality of wearable electronic devices, where each of the plurality of wearable electronic devices comprises a wireless network adapter, a visual indicator having a state, a wireless transponder, and one or more processors executing programming logic;
• a plurality of terminals, where each of the plurality of terminals comprises a user interface, a wireless data reader, a network adapter, and one or more processors executing programming logic;
• and
• an apparatus comprising a network adapter and one or more processors executing programming logic;
• where the programming logic of each of the plurality of the terminals is configured to:
• receive identification data from each of the plurality of wearable electronic devices;
• and
• send the identification data to the apparatus via the network adapter;
• where the programming logic of the apparatus is configured to:
• receive the identification data from one of the plurality of terminals via the network adapter of the apparatus;
• determine an account associated with the identification data;
• process a transaction associated to the determined account;
• send status data to the wearable electronic device via the network adapter of the apparatus;
• where the programming logic of each of the plurality of wearable electronic devices is configured to:
• receive status data from the apparatus via the respective network adapter of the respective wearable device;
• and
• alter the state of the visual indicator of the respective wearable device.