FR3039371A1 - MULTI-TECHNOLOGY BADGE - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device for managing the grouping and evacuation of personnel, consisting of a housing (1) incorporating a radiofrequency communication means. One of the faces of said housing (1) has means for connecting a physical support (10) comprising a photograph (9).

Description

MULTI-TECHNOLOGY BADGE Field of the invention

The present invention relates to the field of personnel security on a site such as a marine platform, the field of personnel management systems which comprise individual identification cards and a plurality of terminals for reading cards of identification to record the passage in reference areas to allow security managers to assemble staff and verify the presence of all concerned.

Personnel tracking and emergency evacuation planning systems typically use personal badges with a photograph to allow security personnel to verify the identity of persons when counting the assembly and evacuation. . Other solutions are based on a badge comprising a transponder or an RFID component to enable automatic identification. This requires however an elaborate management of the delivery and revocation of badges. The object of the invention relates to hybrid solutions for using on a given site badges of different technologies, in particular to allow a transition between two generations of badges.

State of the art

Known in the state of the art solutions for associating a badge to a support.

For example, patent application WO 2013026771 discloses a badge holder intended to receive a memory badge serving as an identity document, which comprises at least one optical identification element. The badge holder is designed so that a user can connect the memory badge to the badge holder and then detach it. The badge holder is further designed so that the optical identification element of the memory badge, when it is connected to the badge holder, remains optically recognizable from the outside.

US Patent 7385508 discloses a support for a card having a body having two blanks which form a recess adapted for holding a card.

The carrier is provided with an electrical contactor for triggering a display located in a recess, a power source in communication with the contact, and a liquid crystal display on an outer surface of the carrier.

US Patent 20090134223 discloses another known example of a housing for maintaining a single card, with an opening at the front. A card can be inserted into the front opening until it is flush with the rear wall. Flexible tabs on the back or sides of the housing are deformed by the insertion of the card and this elastic deformation provides the retention force to maintain the card in the case in all orientations and situations of use. A clip may be attached to the housing for mounting on a car sun visor, pocket map, or other location, either in a vehicle or elsewhere desired. The clip is removable so that other means of attachment, such as hooks and buckles, double-sided tape, adhesives or any other method can be used to secure the case to the desired location. The case may contain electronics and sensors to read the information from the card, via magnetic stripe, RFID or some other method. An outer surface of the box may contain a visual display for displaying information read from the map or otherwise gleaned from the map information (e.g., via a remote connection with a system that can provide information about the map).

Disadvantages of prior art

The solutions of the prior art are not adapted to the particular application of personnel safety management ("Personnel On Board" in English) for offshore platform. For such applications, it is necessary that personnel can be equipped during a transitional period of badges of heterogeneous technologies, for example passive badges and boxes equipped with remote transmission means RFID type.

Solution provided by the invention

In order to remedy these drawbacks, the invention relates, in its most general sense, to a device for managing grouping and evacuation of personnel, constituted by a box incorporating a radiofrequency communication means, characterized in that one of the faces of said housing has means for connecting a physical medium comprising a photograph.

Advantageously, said connecting means are constituted by claws disposed on two opposite edges of said face, allowing said physical medium to be inserted by sliding between said claws, said face also having protuberances on the two complementary opposite edges of the edges bearing the claws defining a reception zone of said support and having a height of between 0.2 and 1.2 times the thickness of the supports intended to be introduced between the claws.

According to a particular embodiment, the housing is devoid of electrical contact accessible from the outside and forms a sealed barrier between the housing components and the outside.

Preferably, the housing comprises at least one light guide opening on the surface of said housing and transmitting a light signal produced by a light-emitting diode controlled by an electronic circuit powered by a non-rechargeable battery.

Advantageously, the outer end of said light guide forms one of the claws.

Preferably, said light emitting diode is bicolor.

According to a variant, two light guides each extending between a light-emitting diode and an outer end forming one of the claws. The invention also relates to a system for managing grouping and evacuation of personnel, characterized in that it comprises a plurality of supports carrying a personalization photograph and a plurality of devices for managing the grouping and the personnel evacuation, constituted by a box incorporating a radiofrequency communication means, characterized in that one of the faces of said box has means for connecting a physical medium comprising a photograph.

Detailed description of a nonlimiting example of embodiment

The present invention will be better understood on reading the description which follows, with reference to a nonlimiting exemplary embodiment illustrated by the appended figures in which: FIG. 1 represents a front view of the equipment only FIG. of the equipment with a card - Figure 3 shows an internal view of the device.

The device is constituted by a sealed housing (1) forming a closed sealed room without any electrical contact or opening allowing communication between the inside and outside of the housing. It has an extension (2) pierced to allow attachment to a pendant. It has on the back a clip for hanging on a garment.

The housing has two pairs of claws (3, 4) and (5, 6) defining a guide for the insertion and positioning of a card (10) carrying a photograph (9). The card is held by two protuberances (7, 9) provided on the lateral edges, and protruding from the surface of the casing by a height of between 0.2 and 1.2 times the thickness of the card (10), in order to allow the introduction of the card by the flexibility of the card, and ensuring the calibration when the card is in place.

The claw (3) is constituted by a light guide formed by an acrylic piece sealed in the housing, the inner end is opposite a diode (16) two-color.

This diode (16) is mounted on a printed circuit (11) powered by a non-rechargeable battery (12). The printed circuit has an antenna (13) and a contactor (14) for checking the state of the housing.

The circuit may comprise a radiofrequency transmitter to enable the geolocation of the carrier of the device, or an RFID module to enable interaction with control terminals arranged on the site and making it possible to locate the users by zone.

The different zones are equipped with ATEX WIFI terminals to enable the managers to follow in real time the evolution of the evacuation with a connected tablet.

The circuit (11) controls the light-emitting diode (16) in three modes: - a first color corresponding to a low level of the battery - a second color when the device receives a signal of support, during an evacuation - a state off in normal operation.

The devices are used on an off-shore platform to secure the evacuation phases, during which it is necessary to: - Know the occupation of the site in real time - Plan the arrivals and departures of the site - Locate the members of the staff - Optimize the organization of emergency evacuations - Follow the evacuation process.

Claims (8)

-. 7 "*; · Claims 1 - Device for managing grouping and evacuation of personnel, constituted by a housing (1) incorporating radiofrequency communication means characterized in that one of the faces of said housing (1) has connection means of a physical medium (10) having a photograph (9). 2 - Device for managing the grouping and evacuation of personnel according to claim 1 characterized in that said connecting means are constituted by claws (3 to 6) disposed on two opposite edges of said face, allowing the insertion said physical support by sliding between said claws (3 to 6), said face further having protuberances on the two complementary opposite edges of the edges bearing the claws (3 to 6), defining a receiving zone of said support and having a height between 0.2 and 1.2 times the thickness of the supports (10) to be introduced between the claws (3 to 6). 3 - Device for managing the grouping and evacuation of personnel according to claim 1 or 2 characterized in that the housing (1) is devoid of electrical contact accessible from the outside and forms a sealed barrier between the housing components (1) and the outside. 4 - Device for managing the grouping and evacuation of personnel according to at least one of the preceding claims characterized in that the housing (1) comprises at least one light guide opening on the surface of said housing (1) and transmitting a light signal produced by a light-emitting diode (16) controlled by an electronic circuit (11) powered by a non-rechargeable battery (12). - 8 - 5 - Device for managing the grouping and evacuation of personnel according to the preceding claim characterized in that the outer end of said light guide forms one of the claws (3 to 6). 6 - Device for managing the grouping and evacuation of personnel according to the preceding claim characterized in that said light emitting diode (16) is two-color. 7 - Device for managing the grouping and evacuation of personnel according to claim 5 or 6 characterized in that it comprises two light guides each extending between a light emitting diode and an outer end forming one of the claws (3 to 6). 8 - System for the management of grouping and evacuation of personnel, characterized in that it comprises a plurality of supports (10) carrying a customization photograph and a plurality of devices for managing the grouping and evacuation of personnel. personal, constituted by a housing (1) incorporating a radiofrequency communication means characterized in that one of the faces of said housing (1) has means for connecting a physical support (10) comprising a photograph (9).