ELECTRONIC SECURITY SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND RECORDING ACTIVITY AND DATA RELATING TO INSTITUTIONS AND CLIENTS THEREOF

• US 20090057399A1
• Filed: 09/02/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: United Security Applications ID Incorporated
• Original Assignee: United Security Applications ID Incorporated
• Inventors: SAJKOWSKY, JAMES M.
• Application Number:
  US12/202,923
• Publication Number:
  US 20090057399A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/00 Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD

Abstract

A tracking system for use in identifying individuals of a group, each of the individuals having an associated data set indicative of the identity of those individuals, includes an electromagnetic identification apparatus configured with each of the individuals for providing an electromagnetic identification signal indicative of the content data set of that apparatus; a writer for use in encoding the electromagnetic identification signals with signals indicative of the individual onto the electromagnetic identification apparatus; a controller for receiving the encoded signals and for storing the encoded signals in a master database storage apparatus; and a reader remotely positioned from the controller and configured for communicating with the electromagnetic identification apparatus and receiving the encoded signals therefrom corresponding to the content data signal set, the reader also for providing the controller with signals indicative of the same.

Claims

1. A tracking system for use in identifying individuals of a group within a geographic area, each of said individuals having an associated data set indicative of the identity of those individuals, said system comprising:

an electromagnetic identification apparatus configured with each of said individuals for providing an electromagnetic identification signal indicative of the content data set of that apparatus;

a writer for encoding said electromagnetic identification signal onto said electromagnetic identification apparatus;

a controller for receiving said encoded signals for storing said encoded signals in a master database storage apparatus; and

a plurality of readers within said geographic area, said readers being configured for communicating with said electromagnetic identification apparatus and receiving said encoded signals therefrom corresponding to said content data signal set, said readers selectively providing said controller with signals indicative of the same;

said controller selectively polling said plurality of readers in order to determine a location of said individual within said geographic area, said controller polling each of said plurality of readers simultaneously; and

wherein said controller determines said location of said individual in dependence upon responses from said plurality of readers.

2. The tracking system of claim 1, wherein:

said electromagnetic identification apparatus further comprises an RFID tag.

3. The tracking system of claim 1, wherein:

said controller utilizes a mathematical modeling algorithm in determining said location of said individual within said geographic area.

4. The tracking system of claim 3, wherein:

said mathematical modeling algorithm is a triangulation algorithm.

5. The tracking system of claim 3, wherein:

said mathematical modeling algorithm utilizes a relative signal strength as received from said plurality of readers in determining said location of said individual within said geographic area.

6. The tracking system of claim 2, wherein:

said controller further comprises a means for comparing received polled signals from said readers with signals corresponding to an expected set of RFID tag signals.

7. The tracking system of claim 2, wherein:

said RFID tag further comprises a means for storing signals identifying specific individual parameters which are time variant.

8. The tracking system of claim 1, wherein:

said controller further comprises a means for compiling received RFID tag signals stored on said master database storage apparatus and comparing said signals with signals corresponding to a permissioned time and location for each of said RFID tag signals and generating an alarm signal should said received RFID tag signals indicate a variance with permissioned RFID tag signals for each of said readers.

9. The tracking system of claim 1, wherein:

said reader comprises an Intermec IP3 portable reader platform.

10. The tracking system of claim 1 further comprising:

a means for creating from said received electromagnetic identification tag signals that further create;

a first tier aggregate signature corresponding to signals indicative of a select set of electromagnetic identification tags in an assembly;

a means for storing said first aggregate signature signals in a said master database storage apparatus; and

a means for receiving and modifying command signals for creating a second tier aggregate signal corresponding to a modified set of electromagnetic identification tags in range of a select reader.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

a means for comparing stored aggregate signature signals with currently received aggregate signature signals.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a means for generating an alarm signal should said comparison indicate a discrepancy between the signals associated with said stored aggregate signature signals and the signals comprising said currently received aggregate signature signals.