Data Goggles for Wireless Access Control Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Monitoring and controlling access control systems is challenging, especially when staff must operate a computer while attending to customers, leading to difficulties in continuous monitoring and control, particularly in scenarios like ski areas where flexibility and scalability are required.
Innovation Solution
The use of data goggles connected wirelessly to access control systems for real-time data communication, enabling users to monitor and control access through voice, gesture, eye-tracking, or touchpad inputs, with integrated cameras and display devices for barcode, RFID, or Bluetooth Low-Energy access authorization reading, and offline validation using stored positive/negative lists.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If staff operate a computer to monitor access control systems, then monitoring capability is improved, but staff cannot simultaneously attend to customers, reducing service quality
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of staff manually monitoring computer displays with an automated optical monitoring system using data goggles equipped with cameras and image processing algorithms. The system automatically captures images at access control points, identifies persons of interest, and presents them to staff through the goggles, eliminating the need for staff to continuously watch multiple screens while maintaining monitoring reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system performs self-service by automatically capturing, processing, and analyzing access control images without requiring continuous staff intervention. The data goggles system autonomously identifies persons of interest, filters relevant information, and presents it to staff only when needed, allowing staff to attend to customers while the system monitors itself
2Ease of operation
If data goggles are used for monitoring access control systems, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The data goggles serve multiple functions: they capture images from access control points, process and analyze the images using onboard algorithms, store relevant data, and present information to staff. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require separate devices into a single integrated system, managing complexity through functional integration
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements nesting by integrating the image processing and analysis algorithms within the data goggles hardware. The goggles contain embedded processors and storage that are nested within the larger access control system architecture, allowing the system to process data locally while remaining part of the overall networked access control infrastructure
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AI summary
A method of monitoring and controlling an access control system (12) comprising a server (18) and an access control device (22) connected to the server (16) for data communication. Data goggles (1) monitor and control the access control system. The data goggles are connected wirelessly to the server (16) and the access control device (22) for data communication and receive data in real time from the server (16) and/or the access control device (22), which enable monitoring of the access control system (12). The data is displayed to the user of the data goggles (1) by a display device (10). The access control system (12) is controlled by commands which are inputted by the data goggles (1) and transmitted to the server (16) and/or the access control device (22). The control commands are input either by voice control, by gesture control, by a touchpad or by eye tracking.