Proximity Authentication and Asset Tracking With a Personal Digital Key
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional healthcare technologies face challenges in optimizing patient care by inefficiently managing patient data access and equipment tracking, leading to time-consuming login processes and inadequate monitoring of equipment usage and location.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing a Personal Digital Key (PDK) that stores user profiles, including biometric data, for secure authentication and automatic application access, coupled with a tracking server to monitor the location of PDKs and associated objects, enabling efficient data access and equipment tracking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional login systems with usernames and passwords are used, then security is maintained, but the login process becomes time-consuming and reduces productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication by detecting the presence of authorized devices (mobile phones, tablets, laptops) before formal login is required. The reader detects device identifiers and establishes preliminary authentication, allowing users to access the system without going through the complete login process each time they approach their workstation.
2Device complexity
If manual equipment tracking is used, then device complexity is minimized, but the ability to track equipment location and usage is inadequate
Solution Approach 1:
The tracking system operates autonomously by automatically detecting device identifiers from portable devices and transmitting location and usage information to the tracking server without requiring manual intervention. The system self-updates equipment status, location, and usage data whenever an authorized device approaches or uses the equipment.
3Productivity
If automatic device detection and authentication is implemented, then productivity and access efficiency are improved, but the system requires additional hardware components increasing device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The reader device serves multiple functions: it detects device identifiers for authentication, tracks equipment location, monitors usage status, and communicates with both portable devices and the tracking server. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate specialized hardware components for each function.
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AI summary
A system and method provides for one or more of tracking of an object and providing automatic access to applications or data. Depending upon the embodiment, the system includes a personal digital key (PDK), a reader, a computing device and one or more of an auto login server and a tracking server. The PDK stores one or more profiles in memory. A reader is configured to wirelessly communicate with the PDK. The computing device is coupled to the reader and one or more of the auto login server and tracking server. The auto login server is configured to communicate with the reader and launches one or more applications associated with a user name identified by a profile received from the PDK. The tracking server is configured to communicate with the reader and to track and log information received from the PDK associated with the object.