Integrated Person Control Kiosk with Multi-Sensor Frame
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current control systems for detecting illicit items in controlled buildings require multiple technologies, leading to space and workforce challenges, increased costs, and ethical concerns due to the use of body scanners that provide naked outlines of individuals.
Innovation Solution
A system integrating multiple sensors on a single carriage frame that minimizes space requirements and worker numbers, allowing for simultaneous detection of various items without revealing the person's naked outline, using a kiosk with sensors and an actuator to translate a frame around the person for comprehensive scanning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple detection technologies are used in sequence, then detection capability is improved, but control station surface area increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple detection technologies (metal detector, body scanner, particle detector) into a single integrated control station structure. The sensors are mounted on a common frame that can be positioned close to the person, allowing simultaneous or sequential operation of multiple detection systems without requiring separate stations for each technology.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention transitions from a sequential linear arrangement of multiple detection devices to a three-dimensional integrated frame structure. The sensors are distributed across the frame in different spatial positions, enabling comprehensive detection from multiple angles and dimensions simultaneously, thereby reducing the overall footprint required.
2Measurement precision
If multiple detection technologies are deployed, then detection accuracy is improved, but workforce requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple detection technologies are merged into a single integrated system with unified control and data processing. The frame structure supports multiple sensors that can be operated and monitored through a centralized interface, reducing the number of dedicated controllers needed while maintaining high detection accuracy across all sensor types.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated frame and control system serve multiple detection functions simultaneously. A single operator can manage metal detection, body scanning, and particle detection through the unified system, eliminating the need for specialized operators for each separate device and reducing overall workforce requirements.
3Reliability
If body scanners are used, then detection capability is improved, but ethical concerns and image copyright issues arise
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary detection information from the body scanning process without capturing or storing images of the person's naked outline. The system processes sensor data to detect concealed items while deliberately excluding the creation of visual representations that would raise ethical and copyright concerns.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses an intermediary processing layer that transforms raw sensor data into item detection results without generating intermediate images of the person's body. This mediator approach allows the body scanner to function for detection purposes while preventing the creation of ethically problematic visual data.
Data Source
AI summary
System for controlling a person (P), characterized in that it comprises:a kiosk (10) with an analysis zone (16) destined to accommodate a person (P) to control,a frame (30) disposed inside the kiosk (10), the frame having a hollow (32),a plurality of sensors (31) disposed on the frame (30), each sensor being able to collect information from a portion of the hollow (32) and to generate signals representative of the information,an actuator (20) for translating the frame (30) inside the kiosk (10), a frame envelop (33) being defined by the translation of the hollow (32) when the frame (30) is translated, the analysis zone being included in the frame envelop,a processing unit (60) for analysing the signals generated by each of the plurality of sensors (31) and to detect from the signals the possible presence of searched items within the analysis zone (16).