Geofenced Image Authentication System for Entry Control
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for user authentication at entry points, such as parks, often experience backlogs and are vulnerable to fraud due to the reuse of images.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising multiple computing devices, including a first device for authentication and remote second and third devices, which communicate to verify images and prevent reuse through geofencing and unique image distribution only within a defined area, ensuring secure and efficient entry.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional authentication systems are used at entry points, then user verification can be performed, but backlogs occur and processing speed decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses image copying where a reference image is captured and compared against subsequent images for authentication. This allows rapid visual verification without requiring complex traditional authentication processes, thereby increasing authentication speed and reducing backlog time at entry points.
2Ease of manufacture
If images are reused for authentication, then the system is easier to implement, but fraud vulnerability increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic image validation where images are time-stamped and validated only within specific time windows. This dynamic approach maintains ease of implementation through simple image comparison while preventing fraud by ensuring each image is used only once within its valid time period, thereby increasing reliability and fraud resistance.
3Reliability
If multiple computing devices are deployed for authentication, then security and fraud prevention improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication system is segmented into multiple independent computing devices, each handling specific authentication tasks. This segmentation improves security and fraud prevention through distributed validation while managing complexity by dividing the system into modular, independently functioning units that can be deployed and maintained separately.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for identifying users for entrance to an area comprising a point of entry into a pre-defined area. The system comprises a first computing device having a microprocessor, a memory and a screen disposed adjacent to the point of entry. There is also at least one second computing device having at least one microprocessor and at least one memory, said at least one second computing device being disposed remote from the first computing device. There is at least one third computing device having at least one screen and at least one microprocessor wherein the third computing device is in communication with the second computing device wherein the second computing device is configured to send at least one image to the first computing device and to the third computing device wherein when an image at the point of entry matches an image on the third computing device the port of entry will allow the user holding the third computing device into the point of entry.