More than half arrive before 10 a.m.: a year of check‑in data

Ten to eight at the gatehouse

It's 7:50. Two service technicians stand at the plant entrance, followed by a courier with a parcel and a job applicant. None of them is pre‑registered. The guard phones their hosts while the others wait. One technician's host is in a meeting. After ten, the entrance is quiet until the afternoon.

How many people and check‑in points an entrance needs depends on when people arrive. So we looked at a year of check‑ins on aReception kiosks, hour by hour.

The morning peak decides how you staff the entrance

By 10:00, 57% of the day's people have checked in. The busiest hour is 8:00 to 8:59, with 17.5% of the day's traffic. The remaining 43% spreads over the rest of the day.

At a site with 100 people a day, that means 57 before ten, and around 18 in the single hour between eight and nine.

Weekdays account for 98% of check‑ins. On weekends, the entrance is almost empty.

For planning the entrance, that means one thing: the daily average tells you little. The weekday morning peak before 10:00 decides how long the line at the gatehouse gets.

Almost nobody is pre‑registered

Only 1.6% of check‑ins came with pre‑registration, an invitation the host sent ahead. Everyone else signed in on the spot, at the kiosk.

People without pre‑registration are often not new faces. An earlier analysis of kiosk data from August 2026, covering 5,770 visits at 14 installations, found that a quarter of people account for half of all arrivals. They typically return within 2.5 days. So half of all arrivals are people who already know the entrance.

How long a check‑in takes

The median check‑in at the kiosk takes 1 min 20 s: half of check‑ins are shorter, half are longer. At a site with 100 people a day, a new person arrives on average every three minutes in the busiest hour.

For comparison: in the ASIS International study published with FacilityOS in 2026, 56% of respondents said a visitor check‑in takes 1 to 5 minutes at their site. That is their estimate; our median is measured.

In the 7:50 scene, four people stand at the entrance. If they check in one after another, the last one starts after about four minutes. At peak time, the line depends mostly on how many people arrive within the same few minutes, not on how many come all day.

How we counted: a check‑in is one record of a person arriving at an aReception kiosk. The data comes from 14 customer accounts, 12 of them in manufacturing and automotive, from October 12, 2025 to October 11, 2026, 10,207 check‑ins in all. Vehicle entries are not included. The sample is small and almost entirely from manufacturing, so the numbers apply mainly to manufacturing sites.