Electronic Cigarette Access Control Using Server-Based Age Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic cigarette systems lack effective identity authentication methods to ensure that only authorized users, particularly those of legal smoking age, can use the device.
Innovation Solution
A control method for electronic cigarettes that involves obtaining identity authentication information, sending it to a server for verification, and controlling the device based on the authentication result, which includes device-specific information and user identity verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If identity authentication is implemented using existing methods, then the holder can be verified, but the authentication cannot confirm whether the user meets legal smoking age requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component between the electronic cigarette and the user's identity information. The server stores comprehensive user data including age verification, and handles the authentication logic centrally. This allows the electronic cigarette device itself to remain relatively simple while achieving reliable age-based authentication through the mediating server that processes identity verification requests and returns authentication results.
2Reliability
If comprehensive identity verification is performed, then unauthorized access is prevented, but the authentication process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex identity verification logic and data storage requirements from the electronic cigarette device itself, placing them in an external server system. The device only needs to handle simple tasks such as capturing the user's fingerprint and communicating with the server, while the server performs the comprehensive verification including age validation, identity matching, and authorization decisions. This extraction reduces device complexity while maintaining thorough verification.
3Reliability
If multiple authentication factors are required, then security is improved, but the ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple authentication factors (fingerprint biometric data and identity information) into a single integrated authentication process. The user provides their ID card to the terminal, which automatically captures both the visual identity information and the fingerprint data, then sends both to the server for simultaneous verification. This combining of authentication methods into one unified action maintains high security while preserving user convenience.
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AI summary
A control method for an electronic cigarette, which relates to the technical field of smoking simulation. The method comprises: acquiring identity authentication information (201), the identity authentication information comprising an identity identifier; sending the identity authentication information to a server (202); receiving an authentication result fed back by the server (206), the authentication result being a result for whether a user is allowed to use an electronic cigarette or not which is determined by the server according to the identity authentication information (204); and controlling, according to the authentication result, the electronic cigarette to execute corresponding operations (207). The method solves the problem in existing technology of only being able to authenticate whether the user of an electronic cigarette is the owner or not, and may achieve the effect of authenticating whether the user of the electronic cigarette is a legitimate user. Also disclosed are a smoking simulation device which performs the described method and a storage medium which stores an instruction for the control method.