Security management device, security management method, security management program, and computer-readable recording medium

• US 20070052518A1
• Filed: 09/07/2004
• Published: 03/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Nakamura, Akihiko
• Application Number:
  US10/557,484
• Publication Number:
  US 20070052518A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.300
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/00 Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system

Abstract

A security management device includes: an at-home determination section (18b) for determining whether or not a member is present in a security management region; a member information obtaining section (19) for obtaining member attribute information of the member determined to be present in the security management region by the at-home determination section; and an external processing decision section (21) for changing the security management mode in the security management region in such a way where the external processing corresponds to the member attribute information obtained by the member information obtaining section (19) when no unauthorized invasion is detected by an unauthorized invasion detection section (18a).

Claims

1. A security management device comprising unauthorized invasion detection means for detecting an unauthorized invasion of a security management region that is subject to security management, and raising an alarm when the unauthorized invasion detection means detects the unauthorized invasion, comprising:

presence/absence determination means for determining the presence/absence of a member in the security management region;

member information obtaining means for obtaining attribute information of a member whom the presence/absence determination means determines as being present in the security management region; and

security management mode changing means for changing a security management mode in the security management region based upon the attribute information of a plurality of members obtained by the member information obtaining means, when unauthorized invasion detection means detects no unauthorized invasion.

2. A security management device as set forth in claim 1, wherein, if it is determined by the member information obtaining means based upon the attribute information obtained by the member information obtaining means that the member present in the security management region is a child only, the security management mode changing means changes the security management mode in the security management region to a security management mode whose security level is higher than a security level of a security management mode employed in a case in which the member information obtaining means determines that an adult is included as a member present in the security management region.

3. A security management device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

member identification processing means for carrying out an identification process for identifying a member determined by the presence/absence determination means as being present in the security management region; and

external device notification means for notifying an external device of member entrance/exit information indicating who enters/exits from the security assurance region, based upon a result of the identification process carried out by the member identification processing means.

4. A security management device as set forth in claim 3, wherein the member entrance/exit information includes time information regarding a time at when a member enters/exits from the security assurance region.

5. A security management device as set forth in claim 3, wherein the member entrance/exit information includes physical condition management information on a physical condition of a member present in the security management region.

6. A security management device as set forth in claim 5, further comprising member information recording medium communication means operable to communicate with the member information recording medium carried by the member, wherein

the physical condition management information is obtained from the member information recording medium through the member information recording medium communication means, the physical condition management information being created by the physical condition detection means disposed in the member information recording medium and which physical condition detection means detects the physical condition of the member.

7. A security management device as set forth in claim 3, further comprising:

member information recording medium communication means operable to communicate with the member information recording medium being carried by the member, which member information recording medium storing the ID information of the member; and

recording means for recording the ID information of a member allowed to be in the security management region as allowed member information, wherein

the member identification processing means determines whether the ID information obtained from the member information recording medium through the member information recording medium communication means is included in the allowed member information so as to carry out an identification process of the member.

8. A security management device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising, in a zone including the security management region, member information recording medium communication means operable to communicate with the member information recording medium carried by the member, wherein

the presence/absence determination means determines whether the member information recording medium and the member information recording medium communication means can communicate with each other in order to determine the presence/absence of a member in the security management region.

9. A security management method in which unauthorized invasion detection means in a security management device detects an unauthorized invasion of a security management region that is subject to security management, and the security management device raises an alarm when the unauthorized invasion is detected by the unauthorized invasion detection means, comprising:

a first step in which the presence/absence of a member in the security management region is determined by the presence/absence determination means in the security management device;

a second step in which attribute information of a member whom the presence/absence determination means determines as being present in the security management region is obtained by member information obtaining means in the security management device; and

a third step in which a security management mode in the security management region is changed by the security management mode changing means in the security management device based upon the attribute information of a plurality of members obtained by the member information obtaining means, when the unauthorized invasion detection means detects no unauthorized invasion.

10. A security management method as set forth in claim 9, wherein the third step is a step in which, if it is determined by the member information obtaining means based upon the attribute information obtained by the member information obtaining means that the member present in the security management region is a child only, the security management mode changing means changes the security management mode in the security management region to a security management mode whose security level is higher than a security level of a security management mode employed in a case in which the member information obtaining means determines that an adult is included as a member present in the security management region.

11. A security management method as set forth in claim 9, further comprising:

a fourth step in which member identification processing means in the security management device carries out an identification process for identifying a member determined by the presence/absence determination means as being present in the security management region; and

a fifth step in which based upon a result of the identification process in the fourth step, an external device is notified of member entrance/exit information indicating who enters/exits from the security assurance region through external device notification means in the security management device.

12. A security management method as set forth in claim 11, wherein the member entrance/exit information includes time information regarding a time at when a member enters/exits from the security assurance region.

13. A security management method as set forth in claim 11, wherein the member entrance/exit information includes physical condition management information regarding a physical condition of a member present in the security management region.

14. A security management method as set forth in claim 13, wherein:

the security management device further comprises member information recording medium communication means operable to communicate with the member information recording medium carried by the member; and

the physical condition management information is obtained from the member information recording medium through the member information recording medium communication means, the physical condition management information being created by the physical condition detection means disposed in the member information recording medium and which physical condition detection means detects the physical condition of the member.

15. A security management method as set forth in claim 11, wherein:

the security management device comprises member information recording medium communication means operable to communicate with the member information recording medium being carried by the-member, which member information recording medium storing the ID information of the member;

the security management device further comprises recording means in which ID information of a member allowed to be in the security management region is recorded as allowed member information; and

the fourth step is a step in which the member identification processing means determines whether the ID information obtained from the member information recording medium through the member information recording medium communication means is included in the allowed member information so as to carry out an member identification process.

16. A security management method as set forth in claim 9 wherein:

the security management device comprises, in a zone including the security management region, member information recording medium communication means operable to communicate with a member information recording medium carried by a member; and

the first step is a step in which the presence/absence determination means determines whether the member information recording medium and the member information recording medium can communicate with each other in order to determine the presence/absence of a member in the security management region.

17. A security management program for a computer to execute the respective steps in the security management method set forth in claim 9.

18. A computer-readable recording medium, wherein the security management program set forth in claim 17 is recorded.