Smart Building Access Control System with Credential Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional access control systems lack integration with smart building and home devices, and building management companies face challenges in coordinating multiple credentials across different systems, limiting their ability to manage and control access efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A smart building system that integrates cloud-based computing, access control readers, NFC/RFID readers, beacons, and mobile devices to manage and control access, allowing users to grant or deny access through a mobile app, and coordinates credentials across various devices and systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional access control systems are used, then access control functionality is provided, but integration with smart building and home devices is lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines access control readers, NFC/RFID readers, beacons, and mobile devices into a unified smart building system. The access control reader is integrated with the NFC/RFID reader to share hardware resources and processing capabilities, enabling multiple functions through a single integrated system rather than separate devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The access control reader is designed to perform multiple functions: it can read credentials from mobile devices via NFC/RFID, process beacon signals, communicate with the backend system, and control electronic door activating hardware. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate devices for each function.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple credentials across different systems are coordinated, then comprehensive access management is achieved, but coordination complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The backend system serves as an intermediary that centralizes credential management and authorization logic. Instead of coordinating credentials across multiple distributed systems, the backend system receives credential data from the access control reader, performs authorization checks, and returns access decisions. This centralization simplifies the coordination complexity by providing a single point of control.
3Ease of operation
If remote access control is enabled, then convenience is improved, but system integration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the access control reader communicates credential verification results to the backend system, which then provides authorization decisions back to the reader. This feedback loop enables remote access control by allowing the backend system to make authorization decisions based on credential data, without requiring complex local processing at the reader device.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments are generally directed to a system and techniques to grant or deny access to a space.