ATM Security System with Consumer Permission Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing ATM security systems fail to effectively alert policing authorities during emergencies and protect consumers' non-public personal information from unauthorized dissemination.
Innovation Solution
An ATM security system that includes a housing with a controller, a backup server, and mechanisms for capturing and transmitting emergency events, allowing real-time distress signals with location, time, and facial images to be sent to policing authorities while ensuring the privacy of non-public personal information, using a consumer permission determining mechanism to share sensitive data only with authorized consent.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If the ATM security system transmits real-time distress signals including consumer information to policing authorities, then the response time to emergencies is improved, but the risk of unauthorized dissemination of non-public personal information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses an intermediary mechanism (the security system's controlled transmission protocol) to transfer information from the consumer to the policing authority. The system acts as a mediator that filters and controls what information is transmitted, ensuring that only necessary emergency data is shared while protecting sensitive non-public personal information from unauthorized access or dissemination.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameters of information transmission by dynamically controlling what data is included in distress signals based on emergency conditions. It transforms the transmission from potentially including all consumer data to selectively including only essential emergency information, thereby reducing the risk of unauthorized personal information dissemination while maintaining effective emergency response.
2Measurement precision
If the ATM security system captures and transmits detailed emergency event data, then the accuracy of crime investigation is improved, but the quantity of sensitive information at risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential elements needed for crime investigation (facial images, location, time, basic event data) while leaving out unnecessary sensitive personal information. This selective extraction maintains the accuracy required for effective crime documentation and investigation while minimizing the quantity of sensitive information that could be compromised.
3Reliability
If the ATM security system implements comprehensive monitoring and alerting capabilities, then the safety of ATM users is improved, but the complexity of the security system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The security system is designed with multi-functionality, where a single integrated system performs multiple functions: capturing emergency events, determining consumer permission, transmitting distress signals to policing authorities, and protecting personal information. This universal approach improves user safety through comprehensive monitoring while avoiding the complexity of multiple separate systems working in coordination.
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AI summary
An ATM security system preferably a mechanism is provided for capturing and transmitting an occurrence of the emergency event to a backup server. Another mechanism is provided for determining whether a consumer granted permission to a financial institution to share the non-public personal consumer information with the policing authority upon detection of the emergency event. Yet another mechanism is provided for routing a real time output distress signal to the policing authority upon capturing the emergency event in such a manner that the policing authority receives a location, a date and a time of the emergency event. Such a real time output distress signal includes a facial image of the consumer at the emergency event. Notably, the real time output distress signal includes the non-public personal consumer information only if the consumer granted the financial institution permission to share the non-public personal consumer information before occurrence of the emergency event.