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Transient asset management systems and methods

  • US 10,380,815 B2
  • Filed: 04/19/2017
  • Issued: 08/13/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An access control system associated with an access-controlled area of a distributed site of an electric power delivery system, the system comprising:

  • a credential input interface configured to receive authentication credentials from one or more users;

    a communications interface configured to receive identification information from one or more proximately-located transient assets;

    a processor communicatively coupled to the credential input interface and the communications interface;

    a computer-readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the processor, the computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to;

    determine whether the authentication credentials received by the credential input interface are associated with one or more users having physical access rights to the access-controlled area;

    generate, based on the determination, a control signal configured to implement an access control action by an access control device associated with the access-controlled area allowing physical access to the one or more users; and

    receive, in response to a first transient asset discovery process performed by the processor, identification information from the one or more proximately-located transient assets;

    determining a probability of association between the one or more transient assets and the one or more users;

    generate transient asset association information associating the one or more transient assets with the one or more users based on the identification information, the authentication credentials, and the probability of association;

    storing the transient asset association information on the computer-readable storage medium.

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