MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20100271173A1
• Filed: 02/25/2010
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: AIKAWA, Shinichiro, Abe, Masayuki, Mizuishi, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US12/712,714
• Publication Number:
  US 20100271173A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.520
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence

Abstract

Provided is a management technology capable of ensuring adequate security management even when using finger vein authentication for restricting entry by specific workers to a controlled area and for limiting the use of apparatuses inside the controlled area. This invention is a system for managing authority of a worker to work in a controlled area that requires wearing of protective clothing. The system performs: personal authentication outside the controlled area, using biometric information of the worker when not wearing the protective clothing; and determination processing to determine, in the controlled area, whether or not the worker who has been authenticated has authority to work in the controlled area, using security information other than the biometric information.

Claims

1. A management system for one or more processing apparatuses located in a controlled area limiting entry to a specific worker and requiring the specific worker to wear protective clothing, comprising:

a first security apparatus including;

an input circuit that allows the specific worker to input predetermined security information even when wearing the protective clothing; and

an output circuit that outputs the security information;

a second security apparatus including;

an input circuit with which the specific worker inputs biometric vein information outside the controlled area before putting on the protective clothing; and

an output circuit that outputs the input vein information; and

a determination circuit for determining whether or not the specific worker has an access right to access any of the one or more processing apparatuses, based on the security information and the vein information.

2. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the determination circuit includes a circuit that extracts a characteristic pattern from the vein information, performs personal authentication for the specific worker based on the characteristic pattern, determines whether or not the specific worker, who has been authenticated and the security information of the specific worker having been judged valid, has an access right to access any of the one or more processing apparatuses and permits the specific worker to access the processing apparatus to which the specific worker has been granted the access right.

3. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the determination circuit determines whether or not the specific worker has an access right to access one or more specified application programs in the one or more processing apparatuses.

4. A method for managing, using a management apparatus, authority of a worker to work in a controlled area that requires wearing of protective clothing, wherein the management apparatus executes:

a first step of performing personal authentication outside the controlled area, using biometric information of the worker when not wearing the protective clothing; and

a second step of determining whether or not the worker who has been authenticated has authority to work in the controlled area, using security information other than the biometric information which the worker can input, in the controlled area, to the management apparatus while wearing the protective clothing.