Biometric Entry Control for Flexible Multi-Region Facility Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems in complex housing structures face challenges in managing flexible reservation of common facility usage and ensuring security, particularly in biometric authentication for residents and visitors.
Innovation Solution
An entry control apparatus and system that utilizes biometric information acquisition, registration, authentication control, and unlocking mechanisms to manage access to multiple regions within a facility, allowing for flexible usage reservations and secure entry.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If biometric authentication is implemented for security control, then security is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent embeds multiple authentication levels within a unified biometric authentication system. The accessible range information is nested within the biometric authentication result, allowing the system to first verify identity through biometrics and then determine access permissions based on pre-stored accessible range data, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high security
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary registration of accessible range information during the application approval process. This pre-action stores the authentication result and accessible regions in advance, so that during actual access control, the system only needs to retrieve and compare this pre-stored data with current biometric authentication results, simplifying the real-time control logic while ensuring security
2Adaptability or versatility
If accessible range registration is implemented for flexible usage, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal access control framework where the biometric authentication system serves multiple functions: identity verification, accessible range determination, and access permission granting. The accessible range information stored in the system can be flexibly configured for different users and regions without requiring separate control systems, achieving multi-functionality while managing complexity through a unified approach
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary registration of accessible range information during the application approval process. This pre-action stores the authentication result and accessible regions in advance, so that during actual access control, the system only needs to retrieve and compare this pre-stored data with current biometric authentication results, simplifying the real-time control logic while ensuring security
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AI summary
An entry control apparatus receives an application of a user who uses a specific region, from a terminal of a legitimate user of a facility, acquires biometric information of the user when the user is a user other than the legitimate user, registers an accessible range including regions included in a route from a gateway of the facility to the specific region, and biometric information of the user into a storage device in association with each other, controls first biometric authentication of biometric information acquired from the user at a gateway of a predetermined region, with biometric information registered in the storage device, and issues, when the first biometric authentication has succeeded, and the predetermined region is included in the accessible range associated with biometric information of which the first biometric authentication has succeeded, an unlocking instruction to the locking system installed at the gateway of the predetermined region.