Method and system for limiting access rights within a building

• US 8,813,917 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2012
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Inventors: Salmikuukka, Jukka, Mkinen, Pertti
• Primary Examiner(s): SALATA, ANTHONY J
• Application Number:
  US13/667,156
• Publication Number:
  US 20130056311A1
• Time in Patent Office: 662 Days
• Field of Search: 187/247, 187380-389, 187391-393
• US Class Current: 187/384
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/468 Call registering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4653 wherein the call is registered using portable devices
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/00 Applications of devices for indicating or signalling operating conditions of elevators
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/006 for guiding passengers to their assigned elevator car
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00341 keyless data carrier having more than one limited data transmission ranges
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

The present invention presents a solution for limiting access rights in a building, which building contains a conveying system, an access control system connected to the conveying system, which access control system comprises at least one short-range identification point and at least one long-range identification point and in which access control system passengers have a personal terminal device for giving service requests to the conveying system. A terminal device is taken into the operating area of a short-range identification point, the access rights connected to the service requests of the terminal device are activated, the terminal device is taken into the operating area of a long-range identification point and a service request generated with the terminal device is transmitted to the conveying system, if the access right connected to the service request is valid on the basis of the activation.

Claims

1. A method for limiting access rights in a building, the building including a conveying system and an access control system connected to the conveying system, the access control system including at least one short-range identification point, at least one long-range identification point and a terminal device for passengers, the terminal device being configured to generate service requests for the conveying system, the method comprising:

moving the terminal device into an operating area of the at least one short-range identification point;

activating the access rights connected to the service requests of the terminal device in the operating area of the at least one short-range identification point;

moving the terminal device into an operating area of the at least one long-range identification point;

generating, by the terminal device, at least one of the service requests; and

transmitting, by the terminal device while the terminal device is in the operating area of the at least one long-range identification point, the at least one generated service request to the conveying system if at least one of the access rights connected to the at least one generated service request is valid, the validity being determined on the basis of the activating.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the activating includes at least one of:

recording a service profile the terminal device, the service profile including the access rights of the terminal device;

updating the access rights recorded in the terminal device by at least one of adding and deleting access rights;

updating the period of validity connected to one or more of the access rights;

unlocking a conveying device in connection with the at least one short-range identification point if the access right is valid.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the activating activates access rights for specific short-range identification points.

4. The method according to claim 1 above, further comprising:

configuring a user interface of the terminal device on the basis of currently valid access rights of the terminal device.

5. The method according to claim 1 above, further comprising:

configuring a user interface of the terminal device based on a location of the terminal device.

6. The method according to claim 1 above, further comprising:

monitoring a position of the terminal device in one or more identification points in the building;

generating at least one of guidance data and alarm data if the monitoring indicates that the terminal device deviates from a route associated with the at least one generated service request.

7. The method according to claim 1 above, further comprising:

collecting control data connected to the terminal device in at least one identification point; and

at least one of generating alarm data and performing a control procedure connected to the conveying system if inconsistencies are detected in the collected control data.

8. The method according to claim 1 above, further comprising:

monitoring an exit of the terminal device from a set monitoring area in at least one identification point;

deactivating at least a part of the access rights of the terminal device if the monitoring indicates that the terminal device leaves the monitoring area.

9. The method according to claim 1 above, further comprising:

independently checking the access right connected to the at least one generated service request in an identification point.

10. A system for limiting access rights in a building, wherein the system comprises:

a conveying system including one or more conveying devices;

an access control system connected to the conveying system, the access control system including at least one short-range identification point, at least one long-range identification point, and a back-end system connected to the at least one short-range identification point; and

a terminal device for a passenger, the terminal device including,

at least one short-range identifier configured to transmit data between the terminal device and the at least one short-range identification point, and

at least one long-range identifier configured to transmit data between the terminal device and the at least one long-range identification point, wherein the access control system is configured,

to activate the access rights connected to service requests of the terminal device in the operating area of the at least one short-range identification point, and wherein the terminal device is configured to,

to generate the service requests, and

to transmit at least one of generated the service requests to the conveying system while the terminal device is in the operating area of the at least one long-range identification point if the access right connected to the at least one generated service request is valid, the validity being determined on the basis of the activation.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the access control system is configured to perform at least one of:

recording a service profile in the terminal device, the service profile including at least the access rights of the terminal device;

updating the access rights recorded in terminal device by at least one of adding and deleting access rights;

updating the period of validity connected to one or more access rights;

opening a conveying device in connection with the at least one short-range identification point if the access right is valid.

12. The system according to claim 10, wherein the access control system is configured to activate access rights for specific short-range identification points.

13. The system according to claim 10, wherein the access control system is configured to configure a user interface of the terminal device on the basis of the currently valid access rights of the terminal device.

14. The system according to claim 10, wherein the access control system is configured to configure a user interface of the terminal device based on a location of the terminal device.

15. The system according to claim 10, wherein the access control system is configured to monitor a position of the terminal device in the building, and to generate at least one of guidance data alarm data if the monitoring indicates that the terminal device deviates from a route associated with the at least one generated service request.

16. The system according to claim 10, wherein access control the system is configured to collect control data connected to the terminal device in at least one identification point, to analyze the collected control data, and to at least one of generate alarm data and perform a control procedure connected to the conveying system if the analysis detects inconsistencies in the collected control data.

17. The system according to claim 10, wherein the access control system is configured to monitor, in at least one identification point, an exit of the terminal device from a set monitoring area, and to deactivate at least a part of the access rights of the terminal device if the monitoring indicates that the terminal device leaves the monitoring area.

18. The system according to claim 10, wherein at least one identification point is configured to independently check the access rights connected to the service requests.

19. The system according to claim 10, wherein the conveying system comprises an elevator system, the elevator system being configured to receive elevator calls based on the service requests from the terminal device.