Arrangement of entrance unit for protected areas

• US 6,930,587 B1
• Filed: 05/09/2000
• Issued: 08/16/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Procházka, Zdeněk
• Original Assignee: Procházka, Zdeněk
• Inventors: Procházka, Zdeněk
• Primary Examiner(s): Holloway, III, Edwin C.
• Application Number:
  US10/030,376
• Time in Patent Office: 1,925 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.21, 340/5.31, 340/5.42, 340/5.72, 340/425.5, 705/1, 705/13, 455/456.6, 701/213
• US Class Current: 340/5.21
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration

Abstract

In a protected area (1), equipped by an electronic lock (2) and by a reading device (3) of chip cards (4), connected to a discriminating unit (5), a user terminal (7) is located, which connected to an evaluation center (6). The evaluation center (6) is connected with an access events memory (9), with a discriminating unit (5) and with a monitoring terminal (8), while the access events memory (9) is also connected to the discriminating unit (5). This arrangement enables entrance into the protected area (1) only to authorized users, equipped by the pertinent chip card (4). This arrangement further enables the user, who ascertains damages, to transmit the report about discovered status via user terminal (7) into the evaluation center (6), which compares time of change of the status in the protected area (1) with time of access events, stored in the access events memory (9), assigns responsibility for ascertained damages and eventually abolishes the right of access for the responsible persons by means of discriminating unit (5) and that all can occur without personal presence or performance of supervising staff.

Claims

1. An arrangement of an entrance unit for a protected area, comprising:

a discriminating unit having a first and second unit input and a first and second unit output;

an electronic lock having an electronic lock input, said lock input being operatively connected to said first unit output;

a reading device for reading a carrier with an electronically-readable portion, said reading device having a reading device output operatively connected to said first unit output of the discriminating unit;

an access events memory having a first and second memory input and a first memory output, said first memory input being operatively connected to the second unit output of the discriminating unit;

an evaluation centre having a first and second centre input and a first, third and fourth center output, said second unit input being operatively connected to said third centre output; and

a user terminal for enabling a user to communicate any decrease in quality of the protected area to the evaluation centre, said user terminal having a first user terminal input and a first user terminal output, said first centre input being connected to said first user terminal output, said first centre output being connected to said first user terminal input, said second centre input being connected to said first access events memory output, and said fourth centre output being connected to said second access events memory input, wherein the evaluation centre may, responsive to a decrease in quality of the protected area, cancel the authorization for using the protected area to the carrier with an electronically-readable portion of the user who used the protected area on a previous occasion.

2. The arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising a second centre output, a third unit input, and a monitoring terminal operatively connected to the second centre output and to the third unit input and operatively positioned therebetween.

3. The arrangement according to claim 1, said user terminal further comprising a reading unit for reading of carriers with electronically-readable portions.

4. The arrangement according to claim 1, said user terminal further comprising a second terminal output operatively connected to an auxiliary equipment input.

5. The arrangement according to claim 2, said discriminating unit being operatively connected to at least one reading device and at least one lock, said access events memory being operatively connected to at least one discriminating unit, said evaluation centre being operatively connected to at least one discriminating unit and at least one access event memory, said monitoring terminal being operatively connected to at least one discriminating unit and to at least one evaluation centre.

6. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein connection of said lock input, said reading device output, said first user terminal input, and said first user terminal output with said first and second unit input and said evaluation centre is provided via wireless link.

7. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein said carrier with an electronically-readable portion is a smart card, chip card or magnetic card.