Monitoring protection and control system

• US 20070123173A1
• Filed: 11/28/2006
• Published: 05/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Astra Gesellschaft Fur Asset Management mbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Astra Gesellschaft Fur Asset Management mbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Stobbe, Anatoli
• Application Number:
  US11/605,048
• Publication Number:
  US 20070123173A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/67.110
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 1/20 Checking timed patrols, e.g. of watchman

Abstract

A monitoring protection and control system is described. It consists of at least one check point having a data carrier that has an identifier and can be queried by a noncontact method, also consisting of a control center for acquisition of the identifier of the queried data carriers, said identifier having been stored and read by a data collector, and also a data collector for reading and storing the identifier. The data collector has a communications interface consisting of at least one transceiver in the HF, UHF or VHF range arranged in the data collector. An external transceiver in the HF, UHF or VHF range is connected permanently or temporarily to the control center either directly or via a network or via another wireless network.

Claims

1. A monitoring protection and control system having at least one check point which has a data carrier that can be queried in a noncontact procedure and has an identifier of the queried data carriers of the check point, a control center for acquisition of the identifier read and stored by a data collector, and also a data collector for reading and for storage of the identifier of the queried data carriers of the check point and for communication with the control center, whereby the data collector has at least one identifier reader, a processor, at least one memory, a clock, a power source and at least one communications interface, wherein the communications interface consists of at least one transceiver in the HF, UHF, or VHF range, arranged in the data collector, and at least one external transceiver in the HF, UHF, or VHF range, whereby the external transceiver is permanently or temporarily connected to the control center via a network or via another wireless network.

2. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein the communications interface is a Bluetooth interface, whereby the external transceiver is a Bluetooth transceiver of a data processing system of the control center or a mobile wireless device connected to the control center via a mobile wireless network.

3. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein the communications interface is a wireless LAN interface whereby the external transceiver is a wireless LAN transceiver of a network connected to a data processing system of the control center.

4. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein the communications interface is a UHF interface of a lower power in the 433 MHz or 868 MHz range, whereby the external transceiver is a 433 MHz or 868 MHz transceiver that is in turn connected to the control center directly or via an intermediate connection of a landline network dial-up connection or an alarm system connected to the control center or via an operating wireless device.

5. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein position beacons with an HF, UHF or VHF transmitter are arranged on or in the vicinity of individual check points, their position identifiers being acquirable by the data collector via the communications interface.

6. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein the data carrier is an RFID chip.

7. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring protection and control system additionally comprises a mobile event data carrier that is carried by the security personnel and has a plurality of predetermined event data, said data being suppliable to the reading head by the security personnel in a manually selectable manner and readable by means of the reading head in the data collector.

8. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring protection and control system additionally comprises at least one command check point by means of which data collector functions are controllable in a nonconduct procedure.

9. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein the data collector comprises a power-saving and data carrier detection circuit by means of which at least the processor can be switched to a power-saving mode in reading pauses and to an operating mode on detection of data carriers.

10. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 9, wherein in addition to the transceiver, the communications interface can be switched to a power-saving mode in reading pauses and to an operating mode on detection of data carriers.

11. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein identifiers stored temporarily by the processor can be transmitted by blocks to the control center only after several reading operations or only on reaching marked check points.

12. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 11, wherein data from position beacons can additionally be transmitted by blocks together with the identifiers.

13. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein identifiers and data can be transmitted as short messages to the control center via a mobile wireless network.

14. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein the data collector is additionally an RFID data carrier that can be read by an access reader in a noncontact procedure.

15. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 1, wherein the data collector comprises a microwave detector consisting of a receiver circuit and a thermal indicator connected to the receiver circuit.

16. The monitoring protection and control system according to claim 15, wherein the indicator is arranged in or on the wall of the housing of the data collector and a housing defect can be triggered simultaneously by the response of the indicator.