Access Control System

• US 20140226018A1
• Filed: 01/16/2014
• Published: 08/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sick AG (Sick)
• Original Assignee: Sick AG (Sick)
• Inventors: Wagner, Markus, Mezger, Matthias
• Application Number:
  US14/157,186
• Publication Number:
  US 20140226018A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10366 the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/10 Movable barriers with registering means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence

Abstract

The present invention relates to an access control system for the control of the access of an object to a portal, the system comprising an optoelectronic sensor for the detection of a movement direction of the object, an RFID reading device and an evaluation unit for the evaluation of the signals of the optoelectronic sensor and of the RFID reading device, wherein only permitted objects may pass through the portal. The invention is characterized in that the optoelectronic sensor is configured to detect a pre-field of the portal in a horizontal two-dimensional plane and in that the evaluation unit is an integral component of the sensor and of the RFID reading device.

Claims

1. An access control system for the control of the access of an object to a portal, comprising an optoelectronic sensor for the detection of a movement direction of the object, an RFID reading device and an evaluation unit for the evaluation of the signals of the optoelectronic sensor and of the RFID reading device, wherein only permitted objects may pass through the portal, wherein the optoelectronic sensor is configured to detect a pre-field of the portal in a horizontal two dimensional plane and wherein the evaluation unit is an integral component of the sensor and of the RFID reading device.

2. The access control system in accordance with claim 1, wherein a classification of the object takes place by means of the sensor.

3. The access control system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the information on the permissibility of the object is stored in an RFID tag which is carried by the object.

4. The access control system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the optoelectronic sensor is configured as a laser scanner which scans the plane.

5. The access control system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the laser scanner divides the pre-field into individual fields.

6. The access control system in accordance with claim 1, wherein two laser scanners are provided which are positioned on both sides of the pre-field and which scan the pre-field in horizontal planes.

7. The access control system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the optoelectronic sensor is configured as a 3D camera which is positioned above the pre-field and is directed from above onto the pre-field.