Portable modular wirefree identification signal transmitter and wirefree access control system

• US 20050128053A1
• Filed: 10/13/2004
• Published: 06/16/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dom-Sicherheitstechnik GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Dom-Sicherheitstechnik GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Pfehr, Guido, Bareither, Wolfgang M., Kaiser, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US10/964,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20050128053A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.640
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 19/043 the shank being pivotably mounted on the bow, e.g. for storage
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00952 Electronic keys comprising a mechanical key within their housing, e.g. extractable or retractable emergency key
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00857 where the code of the data carrier can be programmed
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00944 Details of construction or manufacture

Abstract

The invention proposes a portable modular wirefree identification signal transmitter for actuating, in particular for opening and/or closing, access points such as doors, gates, etc., remotely, having a housing which has at least one externally accessible receptacle for accommodating a respective exchangeable system module, an identification code of a wirefree access control system being stored in the system module. A control device is arranged in the housing and is configured to read the identification code of a system module which is accommodated. At least one transmitter device is permanently arranged in the housing and is adapted to transmit the identification code of a system module which is accommodated, to a reader device assigned to an access point. Depending on the system module accommodated, the identification signal transmitter can be used for opening and closing access points with different wirefree access control technologies.

Claims

1. A portable modular wirefree identification signal transmitter for actuating, in particular for opening and/or closing, access points such as doors, gates, etc., remotely, having

a housing which has at least one externally accessible receptacle for accommodating a respective exchangeable system module, an identification code of a wirefree access control system being stored in the system module,

a control device which is permanently arranged in the housing and is configured to read the identification code of a system module which is being accommodated, and

at least one transmitter device which is permanently arranged in the housing and, in conjunction with the control device, has the purpose of transmitting the identification code of a system module which is being accommodated to a reader device of the access control system, which reader device is assigned to an access point,

wherein the identification signal transmitter can be used for opening and closing access points with different wirefree access control technologies.

2. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, having a receiver device for receiving signals from the reader device.

3. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, wherein an antenna is permanently arranged in the housing and forms the transmitter device and/or the receiver device.

4. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the housing has a plurality of receptacles for accommodating a different system module in each case.

5. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, wherein at least one system module has an integrated control and transmitter device and does not have any connection to the central control device or transmitter device.

6. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, wherein an identification code for an access control system is stored in a system module which is permanently arranged in the housing.

7. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the housing has a receptacle for an energy store.

8. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, wherein an interface for charging a rechargeable accumulator which is inserted into the receptacle is provided on the housing.

9. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 8, wherein at least one electrical contact which can be accessed from the outside is provided on the housing as a charging interface.

10. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, wherein an interface for connecting to a programming medium is provided on the housing.

11. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the control device has program-controlled locking means by means of which individual system modules can be locked so that their stored identification code is not transmitted.

12. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the housing has a receptacle for an enabling module, and wherein at least one system module is locked so that its stored identification code is not transmitted if the enabling module is not accommodated.

13. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, wherein at least one activation element which is connected to the control device is provided on the outside of the housing, wherein the control device reads the identification code of at least one system module when the activation element is activated, and said control device actuates the transmitter device in order to transmit the identification code.

14. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, having a receiver device for receiving signals from the reader device, wherein the control device interrogates periodically whether the receiver device has received an activation signal, and when an activation signal is received it reads the identification code of at least one system module and actuates the transmitter device in order to transmit the identification code.

15. The identification signal transmitter according to claim 1, wherein at least one mechanical key is mounted on the housing so as to be moveable between a protruding locking position and a position of rest which is adjacent the housing.

16. A wirefree access control system for at least one access point such as a door or a gate, wherein the access control system has a lock for the access point and a reader device which is assigned to the access point, and when a valid identification code is received, it actuates the lock in order to open the access point, and wherein the access control system has at least one portable modular identification signal transmitter for actuating, in particular for opening and/or closing, the access point remotely, having

a housing which has at least one externally accessible receptacle for accommodating a respective exchangeable system module, an identification code of a wirefree access control system being stored in the system module,

a control device which is permanently arranged in the housing and is configured to read the identification code of a system module which is being accommodated, and

at least one transmitter device which is permanently arranged in the housing and, in conjunction with the control device, has the purpose of transmitting the identification code of a system module which is being accommodated to a reader device of the access control system, which reader device, is assigned to an access point,

wherein the identification signal transmitter can be used for opening and closing access points with different wirefree access control technologies.