Method and means for providing security
First Claim
1. A method of enhancing security which comprises distributing tags throughout an area to be protected, each tag transmitting an identification signal, bringing a tag reader into said area, the reader picking up the signals transmitted by the tags, and downloading from the reader to a remote location the signals picked up by the reader from the tags.
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Abstract
the present invention provides a method of detecting that a shipping container has been tampered with by unlawful opening of its doors, and a method of ensuring that patrolmen on duty are both safe and are patrolling their appointed route. Tags which are activated to transmit a signal as a result of an activating unit being brought into proximity thereto, or separated therefrom, are used. In protecting a shipping container the tag forms part of a detector structure which stores and transmits data which data changes when the container doors are opened and closed. In protecting premises, the patrolman activates each tag as he passes it to cause signals to be transmitted back to a control room. This indicates that the patrolman is moving from tag to tag in accordance with his schedule.
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- 1. A method of enhancing security which comprises distributing tags throughout an area to be protected, each tag transmitting an identification signal, bringing a tag reader into said area, the reader picking up the signals transmitted by the tags, and downloading from the reader to a remote location the signals picked up by the reader from the tags.
- 8. A method of determining whether a door of a shipping container has been opened, the method comprising applying a tag to one component of a shipping container, there being a tag operating means which moves with another component of the shipping container, said components being ones that move relatively to one another during opening of said door of the container, storing a signal on said tag as said components move together on door closing, changing said stored signal upon said tag and its operating means being separated during door opening, downloading the signal stored in the tag at the time the door is lawfully closed, and accessing said stored signal on the tag before the door is lawfully opened to verify that said signal has not changed due to unlawful door opening.
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14. A method of monitoring a patrolman'"'"'s progress which method comprises distributing tags along the patrolman'"'"'s route, each tag transmitting a unique identification signal, providing the patrolman with a reader for receiving said identification signals upon any of the tags and said reader being brought into sufficiently close proximity, and transmitting the tag identification signals picked up by the reader to a control room thereby to permit the patrolman'"'"'s progress from tag-to-tag to be monitored.
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