Transfer Point Security Control via Presence Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Automated transfer points for parcel stations and parcel boxes face security challenges, including the risk of injury to persons and unauthorized access to shipments and deliveries, due to the public accessibility of receiving apparatuses.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that utilize state information from sensors to check for the presence of persons and objects at transfer points, ensuring that security requirements are met before allowing automated transfers, involving the output of activation signals to control access and safety measures such as opening or locking gates and providing warning information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automated transfer is implemented at public transfer points, then transfer efficiency is improved, but security risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary safety checks by detecting the presence of persons and objects at the transfer point before initiating the automated transfer process. The activation signal is only output when the transfer point is confirmed to be safe, preventing unauthorized access and ensuring person safety before the transfer apparatus operates.
Solution Approach 2:
An intermediary control system acts as a mediator between the transfer apparatus and the transfer point. This control system receives state information, evaluates safety conditions, and only permits transfer when security requirements are met, thus resolving the contradiction between automated transfer efficiency and security.
2Ease of operation
If receiving apparatuses are made publicly accessible, then ease of operation is improved, but unauthorized access risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
Before allowing access to receiving apparatuses, the system performs preliminary detection of persons and objects at the transfer point. This preliminary safety check ensures that only authorized transfers occur, maintaining public accessibility while preventing unauthorized access to shipments and deliveries.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If safety checks are performed before transfer, then person safety is improved, but transfer time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs safety checks periodically or at specific intervals rather than continuously, outputting activation signals only when conditions are met. This periodic monitoring approach ensures person safety while minimizing the time delay in the transfer process.
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure relates particularly to a method for providing security for a transfer point for at least one receiving apparatus, performed by one or more apparatuses, the method comprising: receiving state information at least characteristic for the presence of at least one person and/or at least one object at the transfer point; checking whether the state information meets a security requirement; and outputting or causing outputting of an activation signal only if the state information meets the security requirement. Further, the disclosure relates to a vehicle for use as a transfer apparatus for at least one transfer point, to a transfer point and to a system and a computer program.