Hardware-independent · No biometrics
TurniGate doesn't sell hardware. It uses the access records your existing turnstile already produces to show who is in the building right now, who hasn't arrived and where everyone is in an emergency.
Keep your hardware. Upgrade what it can do.
The turnstile, panel and reader stay where they are, and you keep working with the company that installed them.
Device health
Role view: Administration
Preview drawn with sample data. After setup it shows your own gates and classes.
The problem and the solution
A card reader only tells you that a card was read. It does not tell you who is late for Period 1, which area is full, who is missing, or who is safe in an emergency. TurniGate is the software layer that turns the raw signal into those answers.
Turnstiles, readers and panels emit raw signals.
Every vendor format becomes one canonical event.
Timetable, late thresholds, zones and roles are applied.
Attendance, occupancy, alerts and the emergency roll.
Raw signal
“Card 8F:22 read at 08:41”
No identity context, no timetable, no direction, no confidence. One line in a hardware log.
TurniGate event
“Elif K. · 8-A arrived late via Gate B (+14 min)”
Matched to a person, linked to the timetable, flagged late, attendance draft updated, parent informed.
Core capabilities
Each card answers a question a school asks every day. The small screens on the cards are drawn with sample data.
Not how many people came in by the end of the day, but who is inside right now. Students, staff, visitors and contractors appear in one list.
Gate records pre-fill attendance. Every row shows where its data came from: the gate, the teacher, a manual entry or an import.
Entry and exit notifications are only the start. Everything a parent initiates is in the same app.
The appointment book and the gate decision are no longer disconnected; the security screen shows who is expected that day.
In an evacuation, the list is where confusion starts. As soon as an emergency is declared, the presence list is frozen; later movements are kept separately so the two never mix.
See every connector, lane and panel — and know which ones you can trust.
The whole school day
The work around the access signal lives in the same product: school bus and location, card printing, the SMS quota, card matching and the officer's screen at the gate.
Parents see their child's route on a map and get a notice when the child reaches or leaves a defined place.
Each school receives half of its yearly SMS need, calculated from its student count, as a gift: 180 messages per student per year.
| Students | Yearly gift SMS |
|---|---|
| 250 | 45,000 |
| 500 | 90,000 |
| 1,000 | 180,000 |
| 2,000 | 360,000 |
The school's card printing runs end to end with its contracted card and photo vendor on a single line.
The school pastes its list of national ID and card numbers into the product's own screen; the server does the matching.
The gate display faces the security officer, not the students. Each pass shows the card holder's ID photo in large size.
The moment a card is read, the camera facing that direction takes a snapshot, which reaches the parent together with the pass record.
How TurniGate works
No new turnstiles, no rip-and-replace. TurniGate sits above the hardware you already own and makes its signal legible.
Existing panels and readers connect through push events, scheduled pulls or the vendor's own interface.
push · pull · vendor interfaceEvery vendor dialect becomes one canonical event: who, where, which direction, when.
{ person, gate, direction, time }Timetables, late windows, zones, roles and escalation turn the raw event into something meaningful.
late = period start + thresholdAttendance, occupancy, notifications, visitor and emergency screens — each filtered by role.
parent · teacher · admin · securityIntegration transparency
What TurniGate can see depends on the wiring, the protocol and the panel configuration. We state plainly what each path delivers — and what it cannot.
Real-time push: the panel sends events to us itself.
Scheduled polling: we query the panel at regular intervals.
Vendor interface: we read the data through the panel's own interface.
| Protocol | Direction | Tamper alerts | Encryption | Commands to reader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiegand | One-way | Not measured | None | Not measured |
| OSDP v2 secure channel | Two-way | Available | Yes, when the channel is enabled | Available |
| File-based import | Depends on the record | Not measured | At the transport layer | Not measured |
| Vendor interface | Depends on the vendor | Depends on the vendor | Depends on the vendor | Depends on the vendor |
An unknown or unsupported capability is shown as “not measured”, never as present. We give the definite answer during the on-site survey.
Go to the compatibility pagePrivacy by architecture
In principle decision 2026/921 of 29 April 2026, the Turkish Personal Data Protection Board banned processing biometric data for entry-exit and working-time tracking. We treat this not as a compliance item but as a founding principle of the product.
Fingerprint and face recognition are not used in any version: the data schema has no such fields, the API rejects this data and the adapter strips it out.
Role-based access · same event, filtered view
Permissions and data minimisation are enforced in the platform itself, not only in the interface.
Roles
If you know your panel brand and reader protocol, we answer based on measurement. If you don't, there is still a way forward, and we don't guess.
At twenty past eight in the morning, can you answer three questions: who has arrived, who hasn't, and where is everyone if something happens?
School management pageIf the decision is yours, ask for the answers in writing, including which functions are free in every plan.
Parent association pageYou install the turnstile, we provide the software. The hardware business stays with you.
Partner pageIt takes the access records your existing turnstile produces and turns them into a live presence list, occupancy data, a draft attendance register, parent notifications and an emergency list. The turnstile, panel and reader stay where they are.
No. Your existing turnstile and panel stay in place; TurniGate works with the access records they produce.
No, and we don't offer it as an option either. In principle decision 2026/921 of 29 April 2026, the Turkish Personal Data Protection Board banned processing biometric data for entry-exit and working-time tracking.
No. Records collect in a queue and are corrected in the panel. When the user presses “Prepare”, a package is created; a staff member enters the records into the official system and then marks the package as “entered”.
As soon as an emergency is declared, the presence list is frozen. Later movements are kept separately and the two lists are never merged.
Parents can do the same things in the mobile app and in the browser: notifications, permission requests, the dismissal plan and the handover report.
Whichever you choose, the goal is the same: to see together what can be measured at your gates.
No hardware purchase required.
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