Motion-Activated ID Tag Authentication for Real Estate Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Intelligent real estate monitoring systems face vulnerabilities in unauthorized control access, requiring efficient user authentication and authorization mechanisms to ensure secure operation and differentiated user rights.
Innovation Solution
A real estate monitoring system equipped with a monitoring module, an identification tag featuring an accelerometer, and a microprocessor, which uses wireless communication and a database to validate user identities and assign operational mode changes based on authorized tags, incorporating a bidirectional communication system and motion detection for enhanced security and convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional authentication methods (codes, cards, NFC) are used, then user verification is established, but the system remains vulnerable to unauthorized control access
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an accelerometer as an intermediary component that mediates between the user and the authentication system. The accelerometer detects motion patterns and serves as an additional verification layer, acting as a mediator that must confirm authentication before the system grants access. This intermediary mechanism enhances security by requiring both possession of the tag and specific motion patterns, making unauthorized access more difficult while maintaining ease of operation for authorized users.
2Productivity
If the transmitter is continuously active for authentication, then user identification is rapid, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic action by activating the transmitter only during specific authentication events rather than continuously. The accelerometer triggers the transmitter to send identification signals only when motion patterns consistent with authentication attempts are detected. This periodic activation maintains rapid authentication capability when needed while dramatically reducing overall energy consumption during idle periods.
3Reliability
If the system monitors all user actions continuously, then security is enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and isolates the authentication-critical functions from the overall monitoring system. Rather than implementing continuous comprehensive monitoring, the system extracts specific accelerometer-based motion detection and transmitter activation functions that are solely responsible for authentication security. This extraction approach maintains security for the critical authentication process while avoiding the complexity of continuous all-encompassing monitoring of all system operations.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables quick and precise user authentication, secure operation, and differentiated user rights, improving system safety and user experience by utilizing a battery-powered identification tag with an accelerometer and a monitoring module connected to a database for secure mode changes and access control.
Implementation Method 1
an accelerometer (24) fitted to the identification tag for measuring accelerations
Data Source
AI summary
The real estate monitoring system, comprising a monitoring module (10), which is adapted to the real estate monitoring capacities and contains at least one sensor (15), which is installed within the real estate, with a monitoring module (10) configured to respond to changes in physical parameters that are recorded by the sensor (15); furthermore, the monitoring module (10), which is equipped with a receiver (13) for a wireless communication system, and a keyboard (12) for selecting the operating mode of the real estate monitoring system communicatively linked to the monitoring module (10), and the identification tag (20) with memory (25), microprocessor (27) and transmitter (23) of the wireless communication system, and a battery (26), with a unique identification tag number (20) stored in the memory (25) of the identification tag. In addition, the monitoring module (10) is communicatively linked to the database (1), in which data representing the unique tag identification number (20) and its assigned authority to change the operating mode of the monitoring system are stored; characterized in that the identification tag (20) is fitted with an accelerometer (24) suitable for measuring accelerations, and that the tag (20) is adapted so as to switch off the transmitter (23) of the wireless communication system when the accelerometer signal (24) corresponds to the acceleration signals occurring when the tag is at rest (20), and turns on the transmitter (23) of the wireless communication system when the accelerometer signal (24) corresponds to the acceleration signals occurring when the tag is (20) in motion, in addition, the tag (20) is adapted for the cyclical transmission of a signal representing the unique tag identification number (20) when the transmitter (23) and the receiver (13) of the wireless communication system are switched on, and the monitoring module (10) is adapted to verify the correctness of the unique identification number received, to check in the database (1) the authorisations assigned to the unique identification number and to generate a signal to change the mode of operation of the real estate monitoring system in response to the receipt of a signal representing the unique identification number of the tag (20), to which the required authorisation to change the mode of operation of the monitoring system have been assigned and to press the button on the keyboard (12) to select the mode of operation of the real estate monitoring system.