A method of operating a carwash includes driving a vehicle to a point of sale station of the carwash, purchasing a carwash transaction, and taking a first picture of a license plate number of the vehicle after the completion of the purchase of the carwash transaction at the point of sale station. The license plate number is associated with the carwash transaction as a carwash ticket. The vehicle is then sent to a carwash queue disposed downstream of the point of sale station. The carwash ticket information is sent to a carwash tunnel. A second picture of the license plate number of the vehicle is taken right as it approaches the carwash tunnel. The license plate number is associated with the carwash ticket and the vehicle is washed according to a wash dictated by the carwash ticket.

A system in accordance with present embodiments includes a plurality of virtual queuing stations associated with respective attractions within a theme park and a virtual queue control system configured to maintain respective virtual queues for the respective attractions and in communication with the plurality of virtual queuing stations. The virtual queue control system is configured to receive communications from the plurality of virtual queuing stations and add guests to the respective virtual queues based on the communications.

A gate system control device is a gate system control device configured to control a gate system having an exit gate, and includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and a controller. The first sensor senses that a passport of a person who is in the gate system is placed on a placement region. The second sensor senses that the person is moving. The controller controls the gate system. When the first sensor senses that the passport is placed on the placement region and the second sensor senses that the person is moving to the exit gate, the controller causes the gate system to execute processing for notifying the person.

Techniques for tracking a customer within a waiting queue include receiving, at a computing device, an indication of each of a plurality of electronic display devices (EDDs) establishing wireless communication with a portable electronic device (PED) associated with the customer, wherein each of the plurality of EDDs is mountable on a stanchion, and wherein the plurality of EDDs defines the waiting queue, and determining, using the computing device, a parameter associated with the customer traversing the waiting queue based on the indication. In various implementations, the indication includes any of one or more times, a number, and an order associated with the plurality of EDDs establishing the wireless communication with the PED and the parameter includes any of a duration of time, a distance, an average speed, a change in average speed, and a rate associated with the customer traversing at least a portion of the waiting queue.

A system is provided and generally includes a server, an associate computing device, and a customer computing device. The server may receive data from the customer computing device indicating that a customer is picking up items from a predetermined location. The server may compute an estimated wait time for the customer based on one or more machine learning processes. In some examples, a number of unexpected customers that may arrive is determined. The machine learning process may compute the estimated wait time based on the number of unexpected customers. The machine learning process may be trained with historical data. The estimated wait time is transmitted to the customer computing device, and is displayed to the customer. In some examples, the server sends a list of customers waiting to be serviced to the associate computing device. The list may be prioritized based on estimated wait times for those customers.

The disclosure relates to devices, systems, methods and computer readable media for providing network management of remote card handling, and physical manipulation. More particularly, the disclosure is directed to networked devices, systems, methods and computer program methods for remotely, physically modifying a card while leaving a physical record of the modified card for inspection and validation and delivering the manipulation results to a user, and/or other third parties, for example, scratch lottery cards and ballot cards.

The present invention relates to a boarding system and method which include one or more repositories, a processor and one or more electronic devices. The one or more repositories is designed for storing passenger, booking and passenger carrier characteristics of a specific scheduled journey in a passenger carrier. The processor is adapted to calculate grouping of one or more passengers boarding the passenger carrier, an optimised boarding order, and boarding times for every group of passengers based on one or more of said characteristics. Each passenger or group of passengers is notified to go on board through the one or more electronic devices.

Provided is an information processing system including: a detection means for detecting a position of a customer; and a display information generation means for generating display information used for displaying a notification to guide the customer to a place where the customer is going in accordance with a position of the customer.

A system for fulfilling orders under non-persistent network conditions includes point-of-sale terminals and a server. Each of the terminals generates state changes corresponding to one or more orders, queues the state changes in one or more durable order queues that correspond to the one or more orders, and transmits the state changes in the one or more durable order queues, from oldest to youngest, when operably connected to a network. The server is operably coupled to the terminals via the network, and receives the state changes, and transmits the state changes to the terminals. The server includes a queue processor that queues the state changes in a plurality of durable terminal queues that correspond to the terminals, where the state changes are transmitted to a first one of the of terminals, from oldest to youngest, when the first one of the terminals is operably connected to the network, and where the state changes are maintained in durable terminal queues corresponding to other ones of the terminals while the other ones of the terminals remain operably disconnected from the network.

Provided is a moving body queue management system that can plan an estimated queue line of moving bodies in consideration of a main trajectory. Provided is the moving body queue management system that manages a queue of the moving bodies, the moving body queue management system including: an information management unit configured to manage moving information regarding movement of a moving body; and an estimated queue line planning unit configured to plan an estimated queue line for guiding the moving body to the queue based on the moving information such that at least a part of the queue of the moving bodies crosses a main trajectory.