Semantic Access Control with Vision-Based Endpoint Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing flux sensing systems for controlling access and managing crowd control areas require manual reconfiguration and lack efficient methods for gathering and presenting information.

Innovation Solution

A robotic semantic system comprising smart posts with integrated modules such as power, structure fixation, antennas, and optical sensors, which can be communicatively coupled to perform semantic augmentation and crowd control through autonomous reconfiguration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual reconfiguration of physical devices is used to control access and demark crowd control areas, then the system structure is simple, but the productivity and adaptability are low due to requiring continual manpower intervention

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereconfiguration efficiencyVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables autonomous reconfiguration through self-contained robotic devices that automatically navigate, sense environmental conditions, and adjust their positions without human intervention. The robotic posts independently perform crowd control area demarcation and access control point reconfiguration based on real-time sensor data and pre-programmed logic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system transitions from static physical barriers to dynamic robotic devices that can continuously adapt their positions and configurations. The robotic posts move along pathways, adjust their orientations, and reconfigure access control points in real-time based on changing crowd conditions and security requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Loss of information

If traditional flux sensing systems are used for access control, then the device complexity is low, but the information gathering and presentation capabilities are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation gathering capabilityVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The robotic posts integrate multiple functional modules including flux sensors, optical sensors, communication antennas, and display devices into single multi-functional units. Each robotic post serves as both a physical barrier and an information gathering/presentation node, eliminating the need for separate sensing and display systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system combines flux sensing capabilities with optical sensing, communication, and information display functions into integrated robotic devices. The merging of these previously separate systems into unified robotic posts enables comprehensive information gathering and presentation while reducing overall system complexity through consolidation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If physical devices are used to demark crowd control areas, then the implementation is straightforward, but the adaptability to reconfigure areas fluidly is poor and requires continual manpower

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvearea reconfiguration capabilityVSAvoidoperation simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces manual mechanical reconfiguration operations with automated robotic devices equipped with sensors and control systems. The robotic posts use electronic sensing and automated navigation to achieve area reconfiguration, substituting human physical manipulation with intelligent mechanical systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The robotic devices incorporate sensors that continuously monitor environmental conditions, crowd density, and pathway occupancy. This feedback information is processed by onboard controllers that automatically adjust device positions and configurations to maintain optimal crowd control area demarcation without human intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12219354B2Access control flux system
Publication Date: 2025.02.04 LUCOMM TECHNOLOGIES INC
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AI summary

An access control system for enabling access of an attendant to a customer account on a cloud application hosted on a cloud computing system includes a vision sensor coupled with the cloud computing system. The cloud computing system stores customer accounts, an access factorization rule, location-based endpoints, and a supervisor identifier. The system determines that the customer and attendant are at a first endpoint and determines a particular interaction between the attendant and the customer, then factorizes an access indicator and either permits access or denies access of the attendant to the customer account, and may form and send a message comprising a denial of access semantic to the supervisor.