Modular Intelligent Door Assembly for Unified Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current intelligent door technologies are limited by their inability to efficiently communicate with each other, requiring separate installation and maintenance, and often feature incompatible proprietary components, leading to aesthetic issues and consumer dissatisfaction.
Innovation Solution
A modular intelligent door system that operates based on detected conditions or events, using sensors, processors, and a network to perform defined functions, including notifications and lock control, with a central node managing access credentials and communication across a distributed network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If multiple separate intelligent door components are installed to provide intelligent functionality, then security and automation features are improved, but device complexity and installation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate intelligent door components (sensors, locks, communicators, power sources) into a single integrated door assembly. This merging approach maintains all the automation and security features while reducing installation complexity to a single unit rather than multiple separate components that need to be coordinated.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated door assembly serves multiple functions simultaneously - it provides sensing, locking, communication, and power management all within one device. This multi-functionality approach allows the door to perform intelligent operations without requiring separate specialized components for each function.
2Ease of operation
If battery-powered components are used in intelligent doors, then installation flexibility is improved, but maintenance requirements increase due to periodic replacement or recharging
Solution Approach 1:
The door assembly includes self-powered components that generate their own power through energy harvesting from door movements, environmental conditions, or integrated power generation. This eliminates the need for external battery replacement or recharging while maintaining installation flexibility, as the door serves its own power needs.
3Adaptability or versatility
If proprietary components from different manufacturers are used, then component specialization is improved, but compatibility and aesthetic unity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates all functional components into a single unified door assembly with consistent design and branding. This eliminates the piecemeal appearance caused by separate proprietary components from different manufacturers, while maintaining all necessary specialized functionalities within the unified structure.
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AI summary
A modular door and frame that can be manufactured and supplied to end users with various combinations of intelligent features. The intelligent features allow functions to be performed by the door and/or frame. Also, conditions or events to be detected and monitored at the intelligent door and/or remote locations. Data relating to the various functions, events, or conditions can be communicated across a network that is communicatively coupled to the door.