System for digital work and access control with chip card and reader
A system integrating smart cards and readers with an app addresses the lack of comprehensive solutions by enabling centralized management and enhancing efficiency in attendance recording, access control, and quality assurance.
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- DE · DE
- Patent Type
- Utility models
- Current Assignee / Owner
- HOGL PETER GEORG
- Filing Date
- 2025-07-22
- Publication Date
- 2026-04-23
AI Technical Summary
There is no widely available system that combines commercially available smart cards and readers to manage and leverage their potential across various applications such as attendance recording, access control, and quality assurance, requiring separate systems and procedures for each function.
A system integrating smart cards and readers with a specially developed app for centralized management, enabling functions like attendance recording, access control, automated substitution, and quality assurance without additional systems, and displaying status via the app.
Facilitates centralized management of staff and processes, reducing reliance on additional systems and enhancing efficiency in attendance recording, access control, and quality assurance.
Abstract
Description
Technical field
[0001] The invention relates to the field of digital access control, time and attendance recording, quality assurance, and organizational management in commercial, industrial, and medical applications. These include, in particular, mechanical engineering, the chemical industry, steelworks, government agencies, service companies, and medical facilities. Description of the invention
[0002] The invention is based on the combination of existing technologies – in particular commercially available smart cards (so-called starter smart cards) and readers – with a specially developed system solution for management, linking, and evaluation via an app. While smart cards and readers are already available individually, no widely available system currently exists that combines, licenses, and makes their potential available for a broad range of applications in the manner described.
[0003] The system allows, for example, the recording of working hours and attendance, access to production or security areas, automated substitution arrangements in case of absence, and an integrated function for quality assurance measures without separate ISO certification procedures. A person's status (e.g., sick, available, on duty) is displayed via the app and evaluated centrally. A family function can also be integrated.
[0004] The operator (e.g., a machine manufacturer or hospital network) can use the app and starter cards to centrally manage staff, access, and control processes – without relying on expensive additional systems.
Claims
[1] System for digital work and access control with chip card and reader, characterized by Individual allocation of access and working hours via a central app system. [2] System according to claim 1, wherein the starter chip card is capable of offline operation and data transmission to the app is carried out via a paired reader. [3] System according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a licensing system for billing the device manufacturers is integrated. [4] System according to any of the preceding claims, which additionally retains family functions, proxy functions and real-time status. [5] System according to one of the preceding claims which enables recording and traceability in accordance with quality assurance requirements without ISO certification. [6] Wireless digital quality assurance system in which communication between employees, machine and PC takes place without Ethernet or network cables - exclusively via starter chip cards and a radio reader. [7] System for wireless verification of work steps on industrial machines by means of a personal chip card which digitally documents when and by whom a processing process was started or ended. [8] System for machine release using a contactless chip card, whereby the device is only released upon successful authorization, without connection to the central company network. [9] Use of a portable reader with integrated software for real-time transmission of quality data via secure radio link to the local machine control or an assigned terminal. [10] Logging system that records, archives and makes available for traceability relevant production data via chip card readers, independent of the machine's network connection.