Integrated Visitor Management System for Smart Buildings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current visitor management systems in smart buildings often fail to synchronize parking reservations and premise entry invites with meeting parameters, leading to inefficiencies and a negative visitor experience due to manual processes and lack of integration with meeting scheduling systems.
Innovation Solution
An integrated visitor management system that automatically identifies external attendees, synchronizes parking reservations and premise entry invites with meeting parameters, and updates these reservations based on changes to meeting schedules, using processors to transmit notifications and manage parking and access control credentials.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual processes are used for parking reservation and premise entry invite management, then system complexity is reduced, but visitor experience deteriorates and errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges meeting scheduling, parking reservation, and premise entry invite management into a single integrated system. When a meeting is scheduled, the system automatically coordinates all three functions through unified APIs, eliminating manual processes and improving visitor experience while managing complexity through integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The building management system is designed to perform multiple functions including meeting scheduling, external attendee identification, parking reservation, and premise entry management. This multi-functional approach consolidates previously separate systems, improving operational ease while the modular architecture manages the inherent complexity.
2Manufacturing precision
If automated synchronization is implemented between meeting parameters and parking reservations, then accuracy improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated feedback loops where changes in meeting parameters (time, location, attendees) automatically trigger corresponding updates in parking reservations and premise entry invites. The bidirectional synchronization ensures accuracy by continuously monitoring and adjusting related parameters across systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-reserving parking spots and generating premise entry invites when a meeting is scheduled. This advance preparation ensures accuracy in visitor management while the automated workflows manage the complexity of coordinating multiple systems.
3Productivity
If integrated entity management is implemented for external attendees, then resource management improves, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service functionality where external attendees automatically receive parking reservations and premise entry invites based on meeting scheduling. The automated identification and assignment processes eliminate manual intervention, improving resource management efficiency while standardized algorithms manage processing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated management system segments visitor management into distinct functional modules (meeting scheduling, attendee identification, parking reservation, premise entry management). Each module processes specific data independently, improving overall resource management efficiency while modular design manages the complexity of handling multiple data types.
4Loss of information
If real-time updates are transmitted to external attendees, then information accuracy improves, but communication overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system implements feedback mechanisms where meeting parameter changes automatically trigger real-time updates to external attendees. The system monitors parameter changes and transmits relevant information updates, ensuring information synchronization while event-driven architecture manages communication overhead.
Data Source
AI summary
A system can include one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices can store instructions thereon. The instructions can, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request for a meeting at the building, identify an external attendee for the meeting, retrieve one or more datasets that represent one or more parking spots of the plurality of parking spots that correspond to the meeting parameters, transmit one or more signals to the parking system to reserve a given parking spot of the one or more parking spots for the external attendee, generate an invite to the meeting for the external attendee, detect a modification to the request for the meeting, and automatically modify the reservation of the given parking spot for the external attendee by adjusting one or more parameters of the reservation of the given parking spot.