DISTRIBUTED ACCESS CONTROL

• US 20170024945A1
• Filed: 07/21/2016
• Published: 01/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mordechi Shalev
• Original Assignee: XSCtrl Technologies Ltd.
• Inventors: SHALEV, Mordechi
• Granted Patent: US 9,741,187 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/10 Movable barriers with registering means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration

Abstract

An access control system that comprises a storage for storing a plurality of user profiles of a plurality of users, each one of the plurality of user profiles is associated with a unique identifier of one of the plurality of users and defining access credentials of a respective the user to each of a plurality of gates, a central unit having at least one processor and an access manager module executed by the processor, and a plurality of gate control units which includes a reader to read information and a gate controller adapted to instruct an opening of at least one of the plurality of gates based on an analysis which is performed in the central unit of information extracted from an output of the reader.

Claims

1. An access control system, comprising:

a storage for storing a plurality of user profiles of a plurality of users, each one of said plurality of user profiles is associated with a unique identifier of one of said plurality of users and defining access credentials of a respective said user to each of a plurality of gates;

a central unit having at least one processor and an access manager module executed by said processor;

a plurality of gate control units each having;

a reader to identify a unique identifier of one of said plurality of users,

a network interface for transmitting said unique identifier to said central unit via a computer network and to receive from said central unit a message indicative of approving or rejecting an access of a user identified with said unique identifier to a physical location associated with respective said gate control unit, and

a gate controller adapted to instruct an opening of at least one of said plurality of gates based on an analysis of said message;

wherein said access manager module generates said message based on a match between said unique identifier and data from a respective said user profile.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said access manager module register a presence of said user in a log when said unique identifier is identified.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said access manager module adds to said message promotional content related to a location of a respective said gate control unit.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said access manager module sends a mobile device message to a client application running on a mobile device of said user in response to a compliance with a rule and said approving or said rejecting of said access of said user.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said client application is adapted to extract from respective said user profile information of an access permits to a plurality of locations via at least some of said plurality of gates and to instruct a display of said information on a display of said mobile device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said access manager module sends an SMS message to a client application running on a mobile device of said user based on an update to a respective said user profile.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said plurality of gate control units are installed to control a plurality of car gates and pedestrian gates which are disconnected from one another.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said plurality of gate control units are installed in a plurality of different buildings.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of said message and said user identifier is encrypted using a cryptographic hash function.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one operator module adapted to be executed by a processor so at to allow an operator to edit at least some of said plurality of user profiles.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said at least one operator module is adapted to display a notification about said opening of said at least one gate.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein said access manager module sends a mobile device message to a mobile device of said user in response to a compliance with a rule and said approving or said rejecting of said access of said user and based on a number acquired from a respective said user profile.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein said reader is an image sensor adapted to read said unique identifier from a machine readable tag presented on a screen of a mobile device of said user.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein said reader is an image sensor adapted to detect a signal encoding said unique identifier and transmitted by a mobile device of said user.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of gate control units comprises a module for matching said unique identifier with local data and to instruct said network interface to transmit said unique identifier to said central unit when no locally found.

16. A method for access control, comprising:

at a central unit;

storing a plurality of user profiles of a plurality of users, each one of said plurality of user profiles is associated with a unique identifier of one of said plurality of users and defining access credentials of a respective said user to each of a plurality of gates;

at one of a plurality of gate control units installed to control a plurality of electronic gates;

identifying a unique identifier of one of said plurality of users,

transmitting said unique identifier to said central unit via a computer network and to receive from said central unit a message indicative of approving or rejecting an access of a user identified with said unique identifier to a physical location associated with respective said gate control unit, and

instructing an opening of at least one of said plurality of gates based on an

analysis of said message;

wherein said central unit generates said message based on a match between said unique identifier and data from a respective said user profile.

17. A computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions adapted to perform the method of claim 16.