Smart Locker BLE Token Authentication Platform
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic storage locker systems are inefficient due to antiquated access mechanisms, leading to user frustration and long wait times, as users must manually enter codes at a single interface to retrieve packages, often resulting in lost codes and queue delays.
Innovation Solution
A system that employs token data transmission between a user device and a smart locker device using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, allowing for automatic detection and authentication, enabling users to unlock compartments remotely through a mobile device, thereby eliminating the need for manual code entry and reducing wait times.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users manually enter codes at a single interface to retrieve packages, then access control is maintained, but user wait time increases and operational efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical code-entry system with a wireless communication system. Instead of manually typing codes at a console, users receive automated text messages with access instructions on their mobile devices. This substitution eliminates the physical interaction bottleneck at the locker interface and enables asynchronous access operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a wireless communication intermediary (mobile phone text messaging system) between the user and the locker system. This intermediary allows information exchange without requiring both parties to be physically present at the same location and time, thereby eliminating queues and wait times while maintaining secure access control.
2Ease of operation
If users must be physically present at the locker console to enter codes, then security is maintained, but user convenience and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical keypad-entry security system with an automated wireless communication system. Access codes are delivered via text message to the user's mobile device, eliminating the need for physical presence at the console. The system maintains security through automated verification and controlled dispensing of access information.
3Productivity
If a single user interface is used for code entry, then device complexity is reduced, but system throughput and productivity decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a wireless communication intermediary layer that handles the complex tasks of user authentication, code generation, and instruction delivery. This external intermediary absorbs the system complexity, allowing the physical locker system to remain simple while achieving high throughput through parallel, asynchronous access 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
This solution enhances package retrieval efficiency by allowing simultaneous access to multiple compartments without queuing, as users can unlock their packages using a mobile device, reducing wait times and eliminating the need for manual code entry.
Implementation Method 1
transmitting, by a smart locker device, token data representing a location and identification of the smart locker device within a predefined broadcast range
Implementation Method 2
continuously monitoring, by an application executing on a first user device, for a presence of the token data within a pre-defined proximity of the application executing on the first user device
Data Source
AI summary
The subject disclosure relates to the automated detection of user devices by smart locker devices. In an aspect, a system is described comprising a detection component that detects, by an application executing on a user device, signal data corresponding to a smart locker device. Furthermore a virtualization layer can be employed to allow for the management of detection events corresponding to several user devices by several differentiated smart locker devices.