There are some terminologies used within the Floorsense system which is explained below:
Where a locker bank is setup by the administrator to support Adhoc Reservations (for all, or just a subset of lockers) it will allow any Swipe card user to obtain a locker on demand, on a first come, first served basis until all the lockers available for adhoc use are consumed.
A locker can be requested simply by swiping a card which the internal kiosk card reader can read (usually tuned to customers particular brand of building access card). On this happening, an Adhoc Reservation is created, the locker door is opened, and the locker is removed from the pool of available lockers for other users.
The user can release the locker reservation at any time during use when accessing their locker.
If the reservations expires prior to the user releasing it, the locker door can be opened by the card a final time, or depending on the Administrator settings it may automatically open, or require the
Administrator to open it for the user.
The kiosk will warn that the reservation has expired so closing the door will release the locker back into the available pool. The card will then no longer be able to open the locker, however swiping the card again will create a new reservation, and the default algorithm will most likely assign the same locker.
Adhoc Reservations are generally for a short time period - for example, 1 hour in a classroom, 2 hours for gym, 1 day for an Office workplace. The time period is set by the Administrator. The default behaviour if a reservation expires is to keep the door closed, but only allow 1 more open by the owner (to clear the locker). The Administrator however can change the default behaviour to open the locker automatically at the end of the reservation.
If the card user is finished with the locker before the reservation expires the user can Vacate the locker by tapping the release button on the kiosk screen after swiping their card.