Virtual Visitor Badges for Touchless Facility Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Legacy visitor management systems in enterprise facilities require physical registration forms and badges, which can be cumbersome and inefficient, especially for touchless transactions and access control.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses a mobile or wearable client device to obtain and display a virtual badge credential, allowing users to complete registration forms and access physical resources securely through network credentials and access control systems, eliminating the need for physical badges and devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If physical visitor registration forms and badges are used, then visitor management can be completed, but the process becomes cumbersome and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces physical mechanical systems (paper registration forms, plastic visitor badges, manual signing) with electronic/digital systems (mobile device-based registration, virtual badges displayed on screens, electronic signatures). This substitution eliminates the need for physical contact and manual handling, directly improving both efficiency and operational convenience while enabling touchless transactions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates digital copies of physical visitor management artifacts. Instead of physical badges, the system generates virtual badge images that can be displayed on mobile devices. Instead of paper registration forms, the system uses electronic forms with digital signatures. These copies function equivalently to their physical counterparts while eliminating the drawbacks of physical media.
2Device complexity
If physical visitor badges are issued, then access control can be implemented, but the system requires additional physical devices and infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the visitor's existing mobile device serve multiple functions: it acts as both the registration terminal and the access credential holder. The mobile device replaces multiple specialized physical devices (registration form, badge, signature pad) with a single universal platform that can perform all visitor management functions, thereby reducing infrastructure complexity while maintaining or enhancing flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables visitors to use their own mobile devices for registration and access control without requiring enterprise-provided physical devices. Visitors self-register using their personal smartphones, and their devices themselves serve as the access credentials through displayed virtual badges, eliminating the need for the enterprise to issue and manage physical badges.
3Ease of operation
If traditional physical badge systems are used, then access control is achieved, but touchless transactions cannot be supported
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces physical contact-based authentication (swiping physical badges through card readers) with contactless electronic authentication (displaying virtual badges on mobile device screens). This substitution enables touchless transactions while maintaining security through electronic verification processes that can validate the authenticity of the displayed virtual badge credentials.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are various approaches for providing touchless visitor management. A visitor can complete a visitor registration process using a client device of the visitor and obtain a virtual badge credential to a visitor's device. A physical access control system credential as well as a visitor badge can also be obtained to the visitor's device.