Abstract: A detection system for a doorway discriminates between persons who are authorized to go through the doorway and those who are not. An oscillator with a resonant L-C circuit includes metallic capacitor plates on opposite sides of the doorway to reduce the oscillator frequency when a person walks through and to provide a transient frequency increase if the person wears or carries a small metal object. A discriminating circuit is connected to the oscillator output to discriminate between persons in the doorway with and without such a metal object.