DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC FACILITIES OF BUILDINGS

• US 20150016603A1
• Filed: 01/28/2013
• Published: 01/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bentel Security Srl (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Bentel Security Srl (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Bizzarri, Pier Giuseppe
• Granted Patent: US 10,135,617 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/28
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0426 Programming the control sequence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/12 Details relating to cryptographic hardware or logic circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/14 using a plurality of keys or algorithms

Abstract

A device and a method for managing electronic facilities of buildings. The device may include one or more interface elements for connecting the device to one or more electronic facilities of a building, a connection element for the connection of a portable storage device, and a control unit for reading files from the portable storage device, in which the reading of the files from the portable storage device is based on cryptography techniques, and in which the control unit is adapted to operate the electronic facilities by means of the interface elements on the basis of the result of the reading of the files from the portable storage device. The device according to the present disclosure enables a user to manage various types of electronic facilities of buildings simultaneously in a simple manner and by using a single portable storage device.

Claims

1. A device for managing electronic facilities of buildings comprising:

one or more interface elements adapted to connect said device to one or more electronic facilities of a building,

a connection element for the connection of a portable storage device, and

a control unit for reading files from said portable storage device, wherein said reading of files from said portable storage device is based on cryptography techniques and wherein said control unit operates said one or more electronic facilities by means of said one or more interface on the basis of the result of said reading of the files from said portable storage device.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein said control unit is adapted to adjust one or more parameters of said one or more electronic facilities on the basis of the result of said reading of the files from said portable storage device.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein said control unit is adapted to manage two or more electronic facilities of a building.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein said cryptography techniques comprise the RSA technique (Rivest, Shamir, Adleman).

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein said control unit is further adapted to generate and/or write files on said portable storage device and the writing of files on said portable storage device is based on cryptography techniques, for example on the RSA technique (Rivest, Shamir, Adleman).

6. The device according to claim 5, wherein the generation of files by said control unit is based on the result of the reading of files from said portable storage device.

7. The device according to claim 5, wherein the properties of the files written on said portable storage device depend on the kind of electronic facilities connected to said device by means of said one or more interface elements.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein said control unit is further adapted to delete files from said portable storage device.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein said connection element comprises a USB receptacle (Universal Serial Bus).

10. The device according to claim 1, wherein said electronic facilities comprise one or more of the following facilities:

intrusion systems, access control systems, home automation systems, climate control systems, and illumination control systems.

11. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of interface elements for connecting said device to one or more electronic facilities of a building, wherein each of said interface elements is adapted to connect said device to a specific electronic facility of the building so that said device can simultaneously manage different electronic facilities of the building.

12. A method for managing electronic facilities of buildings comprising:

reading of one or more files from a portable storage device, said reading being based on cryptography techniques;

adjusting one or more parameters of said electronic facilities on the basis of the result of the reading of files from said portable storage device.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein two or more electronic facilities of a single building are simultaneously managed.

14. The method according claim 12, wherein two or more electronic facilities of two or more distinct buildings are simultaneously managed.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein said electronic facilities comprise one or more of the following facilities:

intrusion systems, access control systems, home automation systems, climate control systems, illumination control systems.

16. A method for setting up a device for managing electronic facilities of buildings comprising:

creating an installer portable storage device, said installer portable storage device consisting in a portable storage device into which an installer file is saved, said installer file comprising an installer code (I-code) and a system code (S-code) associated to said installer code (I-code);

reading of said installer portable storage device by means of said device so as to save said installer file into the memory of the control unit of said device.

17. The method according to claim 16, further comprising:

creating an updated installer portable storage device, said updated installer portable storage device consisting in a portable storage device into which an updated installer file is saved, said updated installer file comprising said installer code (I-code), said system code (S-code) associated to said installer code (I-code) and a further updated installer code (I-code′

) so as to associate said system code (S-code) to said further updated installer code (I-code′

).

18. The method according to claim 16, further comprising:

creating an updated installer portable storage device, said updated installer portable storage device consisting in a portable storage device (201) into which an updated installer file is saved, said updated installer file comprising said installer code (I-code), said system code (S-code) associated to said installer code (I-code), a further updated installer code (I-code″

) and a further updated system code (S-code″

), said further updated system code (S-code″

) being associated to said further updated installer code (I-code″

).