DE102016009189B4 - Automatic release scenario for house entrance doors, especially for postal delivery company staff - Google Patents

Abstract

Smartphone for a postman, which is designed to carry out a method for an automatic release of front doors, the smartphone comprising:a GPS receiver, which is designed to receive GPS data, and an application, which is designed to receive from to be executed on the smartphone, with the application having an encrypted stored database with all GPS data of all local positions of all house entrance doors of all houses in the delivery area of the postman and is designed in such a way that the smartphone has the GPS data received from the GPS receiver constantly locates and updates local positions and constantly compares the received GPS data with all the GPS data stored in the database of the application, the smartphone being designed to, when the smartphone approaches one meter of one of the house entrance doors and when it is detected Match from the received GP S data with the GPS data stored in the database via the executed application to automatically control a corresponding central electronic front door bell control corresponding to one of the front doors so that a magnetic catch of the front door is controlled via the front door bell control; and wherein:the smartphone is also designed to either:a) carry out the magnetic snap by dialing a respective mobile phone or a respective additional smartphone, the mobile phone/the smartphone having its own telephone number and via a cable to the respective central electronic front doorbell control is connected and the database has stored the phone numbers associated with the GPS data; orb) the smartphone is also designed to carry out the magnetic catch via a WLAN connection of the smartphone and a WLAN connection of a respective cell phone or a respective further smartphone, the cell phone/the smartphone being connected to the respective central electronic doorbell control via a cable , and wherein the database stored static WLAN names with associated security keys of the WLAN ports in association with the GPS data; orc) the smartphone is also designed to carry out the magnetic snap by establishing an Internet IP address connection via a cordless online data connection of the smartphone to a cordless online data connection of a respective mobile phone or a respective additional smartphone, with the respective mobile phone/the respective smartphone being connected via a cable connected to the respective central electronic doorbell controller and the database stored static internet IP addresses in connection with the GPS data.

Description

Introductory explanations:

Since even in today's times of highly technical progress, there are still relatively backward and laborious methods for opening house entrance doors, especially by the staff of postal delivery companies, especially with carrying around huge bunches of keys with possibly several hundred keys, their picking out for subsequent manual unlocking processes of the Front doors, especially very demanding in the winter months, a method with several different options for an automatic release scenario of several or many front doors is proposed here, especially for separate delivery areas from individual mail carriers in metropolitan areas to many adjacent multi-tenant residential buildings, which thus overall delivery processes for mail delivery staff would be easier, and thus also the quantities of the logistical delivery processes would increase.

Almost every house, or in particular every residential building with several tenants or every commercial building, has its own central electronic front door bell control, which makes it possible to close a magnetic snapper on a house entrance door via each door bell control connected to this with a push button located on this Press to trigger the release for opening a front door, whereby the alternatives listed in the document presented here can mainly help to simplify the delivery of letters or parcels via staff from postal delivery companies, or jointly for staff from different postal delivery companies, or partially automate.

Via global positioning systems (GPS - Global Positioning Systems) of modern satellite GPS systems or modern GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) such as Galileo, GLONASS or Beidou etc., positioning radii can therefore of GPS receivers or modern GNSS receivers, are made possible by smartphones less than in the centimeter range to their sensitivities, whereby the basic concept for automatic house entrance door releases described here in the document consists of equipping mail carriers from postal delivery companies in particular with a simple, inexpensive smartphone, which has a GPS receiver or a GNSS receiver, for global positioning systems, and on which a specially designed and programmed APP (application), or a program that can be executed on this, including a smartphone APP, can be installed and called up, in which case via the GPS receiver of a smartphone, which has a P ostzulieferer, or also any person, carries with him, the received GPS data on his sensitivities are constantly updated, and via the APP acting on this, the positions of different house entrance doors, or the location or address data for these, consequently Whose respective sensitivities to different house entrance doors are determined and evaluated, and in this case when a postman approaches one of these different house entrance doors, a wireless connection to the locally appropriate central electronic house doorbell control is automatically activated via his smartphone and therefore on the APP operating on this House to its local condition to one of the front doors made, which then in turn release the front door, in front of which the postman is located, is triggered via the magnet snapper, and thus a postman simply each ls can open the corresponding house entrance door without having to take time-consuming manual key-searching actions. With the method described here for an automatic release scenario for house entrance doors, or for several or many house entrance doors via just one person, in particular via a postman of a postal delivery company, several options would be available, each with a wireless connection via a smartphone to a central electronic doorbell control to produce, or also to an additional electronic component for each of these, which are explained in detail in relation to the method in the subsequent description.

US 2012/0280783 A1 discloses a system and method for controlling a locking mechanism using a handheld electronic device.

DE 202011106468 U1 discloses a GSM mobile radio device for closing electro-mechanical locking systems using mobile radio, the GSM mobile radio device, which is electrically coupled via contacts or relays with an electro-mechanical locking system, incoming calls from another GSM mobile radio device from the mobile network while the connection is being established based on the calling number and other parameters and, if the result is positive, initiates an electrical signal and closes the electro-mechanical locking system.

It is also known to grant access rights to a front door via smartphone (granting access rights to a front door via smartphone, November 4, 2015. URL http://www.elektronikpraxis.vogel.de/automatisierung/articles/510500/ [accessed on April 21, 2017]; and Schreiber, Manuel: This is how the cell phone becomes a front door key, January 25, 2016. URL http://www.chip.de/artikel/Elektronisches-Tuerschlossnachruesten-und-per-Smartphone-steuern-Smart-Home_79573163.html [accessed on April 21 .2017]).

US 2014/0 049 369 A1 discloses a locking system comprising an electronic lock and a wireless device having a location determination utility configured to determine a location of the wireless device. The electronic lock and wireless device wirelessly communicate with each other and send and receive commands to perform a specific task when the wireless device is within range of the electronic lock. The location of the wireless device and a speed of the wireless device can be used to calculate an estimated arrival of the wireless device at the electronic lock, and the specific task can be performed substantially at the estimated arrival.

Description:

As already mentioned in the introduction, a postman's smartphone would not only have to have a GPS receiver and a specially designed and programmed APP installed and operating on it, but such an APP would also have to have a database or a database stored in it When they are installed, they have a database stored on a smartphone that can be called up via the APP, with all local GPS data for any house entrance doors of all houses in the delivery area of a postman, whereby this APP can then be used to determine or evaluate if the received and constantly updated GPS data, or one of these, and therefore a local condition of a smartphone-carrying postman, matches one of the GPS data in their stored database for one of the front doors in their delivery area, and then when a postal carrier approaches carried en smartphone to one of the house entrance doors in its delivery area, with, for example, less than one meter to a This, via the APP and via whose smartphone the right central electronic house door bell control for whose local condition matches one of the house entrance doors can be controlled wirelessly, via which then, in turn, the magnetic catch of the front door is electrically controlled, in front of which the postman is currently located, and which can then be easily opened by him.

Since, especially for entire metropolitan areas with, for example, several million house entrance doors or houses, it is not difficult or problematic to create a larger database to be stored in an APP, which contains all GPS data for any local positions for all house entrance doors of an entire metropolitan area , but rather the overall technical feasibility or prerequisites for creating such a large number of houses at short notice, only a small database was used here in the explanations, which only contains the GPS data for all house entrance doors in the respective delivery area of a Postman, or also additional connection data for necessary technical components to the houses This contains. This course of action could not only be justified by the fact that, e.g. if a postman's smartphone is lost, a partial security standard can be guaranteed, but also by the fact that an inexpensive smartphone with low computing power, its hardware, the received GPS data faster via the APP operating on it can be compared with less GPS data of a single delivery area in their stored database.

However, there would always be the unrestricted possibility of always having just one larger database with all GPS data for any house entrance doors in an entire metropolitan area, or also with all address data for the associated houses and all data for the necessary connection information for the technical components to these houses , on each smartphone of all mail carriers of a postal delivery company, which separately only serve a small delivery area of an entire metropolitan delivery area, to be stored in the APP operating on their smartphones, whereby each individual postal carrier can then receive a separate security code, which can be sent via the one on their smartphone acting APP on the touchscreen Whose smartphone is entered, and through which on the one hand the APP is released and activated, and on the other hand the APP and this through the corresponding security code, only the GPS data, or all of this associated necessary additional data from the APP database for the corresponding house entrance doors and houses in its delivery area can be made accessible, or a general one can also be made available common security code to release and activate the APP with access to all data of a larger database for any house entrance doors and houses of an entire metropolitan delivery area can be used, whereby at least a general security standard against unauthorized database access can be guaranteed, or such a larger database or as well as a smaller database for the respective individual delivery areas is also stored in an encrypted data format, for example with AES-256 encryption, which can only be decrypted and read by the APP, in this or on a smartphone. An advantage would result from the fact that individual smaller databases and associated security codes would not have to be created for each individual delivery area and these would have to be distributed to the individual mail carriers. An overall disadvantage would have to be listed here that wireless control of doorbell controls via smartphones must also meet certain technical requirements, or that these wireless controls usually require or presuppose additional installations of additional electronic components, such as cell phones or xDSL routers, in addition to the doorbell controls would, or this can also be done in different ways, and a stored database must have additional identification and connection data for these additional components or for these front door bell controls for their controls, and an expansion of an entire metropolitan area, or even individual districts, only practical in the long term could be realized, whereby a larger database would then have to be constantly updated and made available again in the course of a larger expansion, and therefore also here mainly in the explanations only on jewe ils a smaller database for individual delivery areas was used, which would be significantly simpler and more elegant in the course of successive expansions to such automatic release scenarios, including individual delivery areas.

Since technically feasible locating radii in the centimeter range can therefore be made possible by modern satellite GPS systems via GPS receivers of mobile phones or smartphones according to their sensitivities, but here the quality of a GPS receiver and its hardware of the inexpensive smartphones to be used would also be decisive in terms of costs , the specification "less than one meter" was always used here for the description of location radii, i.e. of approaches to house entrance doors, which are technically feasible without any problems, but the vast majority of house entrance doors are more than 2 to 3 meters apart, here also location radii of 2 to 3 meters would be used be sufficient, or a corresponding central electronic front door bell control can thus be controlled automatically and wirelessly via a smartphone of a smartphone wearer when the latter approaches a front door of less than 3 to 2 meters.

In particular, the technical equipment features of the already existing central electronic front door bell controls, mainly for several or many houses, would be decisive for the application of the method presented here, or accordingly also the way or individual different options, such as automatic cordless controls of the already existing central electronic front door bell controls via a smartphone of a smartphone carrier approaching a front door, and thus a respective automatic release scenario, whereby in many cases it probably cannot be made possible to control central electronic front door bell controls directly wirelessly because they do not have the necessary technical equipment features , or the technical features of these are very different from house to house. Therefore, in the following, 4 examples and at the same time detailed descriptions of several different options are listed, which present automatic wireless controls for central electronic house doorbell controls, whereby not one of these is wirelessly controlled directly by a smartphone in every case, but rather one in addition to these electronic component to be set up can be in the form of an additional mobile phone, smartphone or xDSL router, or how several or many of these additional electronic components can be set up most efficiently in order to ensure automatic release of several or many house entrance doors, especially for postal delivery company staff, or Realize this as practically as possible.

Example 1:

The probably most practical possibility of realizing a release of a front door would be offered with an additional inexpensive mobile phone or smartphone, which has its own telephone number, via a short special cable plugged into one of these, for example with a maximum length of one meter, with a To connect central electronic doorbell control in the vicinity of their condition with this, or to wire it electrically, and also to accommodate it, with a central electronic doorbell control being anywhere in a house For example, in a separate basement or technical room, or a smaller one directly behind the doorbell of a front door, where such an inexpensive mobile phone or smartphone can be installed directly behind the doorbell of the front door without much effort. Such an inexpensive mobile phone or smartphone would then be wired to a central electronic doorbell control via the short special cable plugged into one of these, like a standardized doorbell control of a house, especially like one of a multi-tenant apartment building, whereby it must be ensured that one of these is connected via the special cable at the same time is permanently supplied with electricity from a central electronic front door bell control, and the magnetic catch of a front door can also be released with a cordless control of one of these via one of these. Now, with a simple, short telephone call to a cell phone or smartphone, the central electronic front door bell control can be controlled via one of these, with which one of these is electrically connected, via which the magnetic catch of a front door is then controlled, or could then be controlled via a short telephone Dialing of any person located in front of a front door via their mobile phone or smartphone, the phone number of a mobile phone or smartphone located or connected to a central electronic front doorbell control of the house can be dialed manually in order to be able to release the magnetic catch of the front door to open the front door .

Since the overall main objective of the procedure described here is not to achieve individual releases of house entrance doors via manual telephone dialing, but to simplify or automate release processes as much as possible in order to automatically release several or many house entrance doors via just one person , or only one smartphone carrier, in particular via a mail carrier, a separate automatic release of several or many house entrance doors can therefore be realized by individual automatic telephone dialing when a smartphone carrier approaches one of the house entrance doors to be released automatically via his smartphone as follows.

For example, a single postman of a postal delivery company has to serve a delivery area of 200 houses on a single side of the street, or there would then be 200 house entrance doors to them, and an APP installed on their smartphone and acting on them constantly evaluates the local positions Their sensitivities via the GPS receiver of their smartphones, or also constantly update this received GPS data. Now, for example 1, a cheap mobile phone or smartphone would have to be installed for each of the 200 houses near a central electronic doorbell control for these, or connected to them like a standardized doorbell control, which then has its own telephone number. The APP operating on the postman's smartphone must now have a database stored in encrypted form in this or on his smartphone, which contains the 200 individual local GPS data for the 200 front doors of the 200 houses in his delivery area, and additionally for the Houses for These suitable 200 telephone numbers of the cheap mobile phones or smartphones connected to the respective central electronic front door bell controls, or each one of the 200 GPS data stored in the database, the corresponding one of the 200 dialable telephone numbers of one of the corresponding house to a house entrance door 200 cell phones or smartphones in the database. Now, when the postman carrying a smartphone approaches one meter of one of the 200 front doors of the 200 houses in his delivery area, the APP operating on his smartphone can be used to determine whether one of the continuously updated GPS data received via the GPS receiver of his smartphone whose local condition to one of the 200 house entrance doors corresponds to one of the 200 GPS data in the encrypted stored database of the APP, or the received GPS data is constantly compared with the 200 GPS data contained in the encrypted database via the APP, and if there is a comparative match to one of these, the corresponding assigned phone number stored in the database for this is selected via the APP, then the postman's smartphone is controlled via the APP with this phone number, which in turn is then dialed briefly by telephone, for example with 5 to a maximum of 20 seconds and, via this phone number, controls the corresponding mobile phone or smartphone for the front door bell control that matches the front door of the house in question, or a comparative match would always be determined via the APP if the postman was less than a meter from one of the 200 front doors of the 200 houses in his Delivery area approaching, with a total of 200 front doors when it approaches one of these separately so that they can be released via the central electronic doorbell controls, and easy It is possible to enter these 200 houses to distribute the mail.

In a planned project, individual districts or an entire metropolitan area could then be expanded with automatic release scenarios, always individual streets or individual delivery areas, one after the other, or several of these separately at the same time. In addition to an inexpensive smartphone with an APP installed and operating on this, each individual postman would then have to be provided with a separate encrypted database for this for his separate delivery area, which each have the number of corresponding GPS data for any house entrance doors with separately for this assigned phone numbers of the mobile phones or smartphones connected to the central electronic doorbell systems of all houses.

Example 2:

Automatic wireless control of a central electronic front doorbell control of a house would only be possible in example 2 via an additional inexpensive smartphone, which, analogously to example 1, via a short special cable plugged into this, for example again with a maximum length of one meter, with a central electronic front doorbell control in the vicinity of whose condition such as a standardized doorbell control was connected to it, or electrically wired and accommodated, whereby a central electronic front doorbell control could also be anywhere in a house or a smaller one could be located directly behind the bell board of a front door. In contrast to example 1, a smartphone connected to a central electronic front door bell control of a house is controlled wirelessly not via automatic telephone dialing via the smartphone of a postman approaching a front door, but can be carried out via automatic establishment of a WLAN connection or Internet IP Address connection via the WLAN connection or the cordless online data connection of the smartphone of the postman to a WLAN connection or a cordless online data connection of a smartphone connected to a central electronic doorbell control of a house.

The main difference to example 1 would be that an encrypted stored database of the APP operating on a smartphone of a postman, in addition to all GPS data for any house entrance doors of all houses in his delivery area, does not also have all telephone numbers stored separately in the database of the mobile phones or smartphones connected to the central electronic doorbell systems, but that the database also has all assigned WLAN names with associated security keys assigned to them, and/or all assigned static Internet IP addresses of the smartphones connected to the central electronic doorbell controls has.

In order to be able to automatically release several or many house entrance doors separately via a smartphone of a single mail carrier, a simple example short overall scenario can be as follows. A postman has to serve a delivery area of 220 houses, with each of them having an inexpensive smartphone connected to the central electronic front door bell control and the encrypted database of the APP operating on their smartphone, in addition to all local GPS data for the 220 front doors of the 220 houses, in addition to all 220 assigned WLAN names with associated security keys, and/or all 220 assigned static Internet IP addresses of the 220 smartphones connected to the central electronic doorbell controls of these 220 houses, which each have the associated in the APP database locally appropriate 220 GPS data of the 220 house entrance doors to the 220 houses were assigned separately, or were saved in this assigned. Now, when the postman carrying a smartphone approaches one meter of one of the 220 front doors of the 220 houses in his delivery area via the APP operating on his smartphone, the received and constantly updated GPS data of the GPS receiver of his smartphone can be compared GPS data for one of the 220 contained in the encrypted database of the APP is determined, which corresponds to one of the local positions for one of the 220 front doors, or with a matching one for the local address of one of the 220 front doors for its current approach, where then via the active APP from the encrypted database available to this in each case the appropriate, separately assigned WLAN name with the associated security key or the appropriate, separately assigned static Internet IP address for the corresponding house to the central electronic front door klin connected smartphones is selected, and one of these data is then used to control the postman’s smartphone, which in turn uses a central electronic doorbell control system to select the appropriate smartphone WLAN connection or via an Internet IP address connection, and a total of 220 house entrance doors can then be released automatically and separately via the postman. It should also be mentioned that the WLAN connection of a smartphone connected to a central electronic doorbell control must provide a WLAN hotspot in order to be able to control it externally, which should currently be offered by any inexpensive smartphone, or this should have a hidden WLAN -Name can provide.

A WLAN connection, or just one, would be preferable here, because this would not require any additional connection costs, i.e. a SIM card or a wireless Internet IP address connection, or no telephone charges or no online flat rate to one central electronic doorbell control connected smartphones would be required, each of which would cause additional costs. With these 2 available connection types (WLAN connection or Internet IP address connection), if one primary connection type fails, the other can be used as an alternative, or if a default WLAN connection fails first, then an Internet -IP address connection can be established, or vice versa, whereby a preventive simultaneous expansion of these two connection types can take place in order to also ensure higher availability of an automatic release scenario.

As already mentioned, a prerequisite for establishing an Internet IP address connection to a smartphone connected to a central electronic doorbell control would be that such a smartphone has an online flat rate or

This is made available, and that such has its own static fixed Internet IP address. In the sense of the already prepared and usable internet protocol with version 6 (IP-V6), every internet-enabled end device would ultimately always have its own fixed static internet IP address, which makes it possible to simplify and also cost-effectively use such a mobile phone with IP V6 without its Internet IP address being dynamically dependent on a wireless data connection.

Since the data volume via such an online flat rate or cordless online data connection is extremely low, or an Internet connection is only required for a very short time to release a front door, and a static IP V6 address of a smartphone is fixed, standard cordless data connections would for smartphones such as UMTS or LTE there are options to only use a cordless data connection when needed, or to set one up for a short time only when needed, for example with 10 to a maximum of 20 seconds, which is the case with several or many online flat rate connections of several or many smartphones that are not used permanently to central electronic front door bell controls, would be of great importance in relieving the distributed cordless data traffic, or in an enormous reduction in the number of connections.

In this regard, after a smartphone has been installed on a central electronic doorbell control, it would only have to be brought online for a short time, and then the cordless data online connection can be automatically disconnected or dismantled again via this. Because such a smartphone does not make an online query of its own accord, and therefore no online connection is established either, a short cordless data online connection can now be reestablished via a postman's smartphone to a this person via a fixed Internet IP V6 address of this person, or The re-establishment of a wireless data online connection would then take place via a remote terminal (wireless WAN by remote wakeup), which then corresponds to that of a postman's smartphone or that of any person. For this purpose, there would then also be the additional possibility of putting a smartphone connected to a central electronic front door bell control into an idle state or sleep state if it is not activated, and swapping all data from its main memory into its read-only memory, or not just switching off its touchscreen, which leads to minimal power consumption when it is almost completely switched off, it being possible for the cordless data online connection to be reestablished remotely via a postman's smartphone to be returned from the idle state to the normal operating state at the same time (wakeup-on-WAN). To reset a smartphone that has been put into an idle state to the operating state, a WLAN connection to this (Wakeup-On-WLAN) or a telephone connection to this (Wakeup-On-Call) can also be used, or respectively when using one of these 2 connection types for controlling a central electronic main control center, or such a smartphone could also be controlled via an automatic short telephone dialing via an inexpensive smartphone of a postman.

Example 3:

As already mentioned above, the different technical equipment features of the already existing central electronic doorbell controls for several or many houses would always be of importance for the practical implementation of the method presented here, or these would have different overall negative effects for several or many houses. In some residential buildings with several tenants, for example, there is a small central electronic front door bell control directly behind the front door bell, or there is no front door bell control at all, but the individual door bell controls are powered via a power supply behind the bell on a front door via low-voltage electrical internal wiring This is supplied with electricity, whereby the magnetic latch of a house entrance door is then controlled directly by one of these via a separate electrical wire of the low-voltage indoor wiring.

In order to resolve these differences in disadvantages, it is proposed here in Example 3 to accommodate an inexpensive mobile phone or an inexpensive smartphone, either directly behind a doorbell on a front door or anywhere in a house, so it is particularly worthwhile to install it simply behind a doorbell on a front door of a multi-party residential building , and to be connected via a special cable plugged into one of these directly to a low-voltage internal wiring of an entire doorbell system such as a standardized doorbell control, or to be electrically wired to one of these.

It would now be irrelevant whether a central electronic front doorbell control is located behind a bellboard of a front door or anywhere in a house, or whether there is one at all, or several different ones for several houses, in which case a direct electrical control of a magnetic snapper is required a house entrance door via an inexpensive mobile phone or an inexpensive smartphone, which can be connected to an electrical low-voltage internal house wiring. In this case, every inexpensive mobile phone or smartphone connected directly to a low-voltage in-house wiring would now be able to be permanently supplied with electricity via a power supply unit of an electrical low-voltage in-house wiring of an entire front doorbell system of a house, instead of one of these as in example 1 and example 2 via a central electronic one Having to supply electricity to the front doorbell control. In this regard, it would have to be stated here that the overall adjustment of voltage differences, or the increase in compatibility problems with power supply and control voltage levels, therefore cell phones or smartphones to be connected to central electronic doorbell controls, as also listed in example 1 and example 2, and especially here for example 3 with a direct connection of one of these to the low-voltage in-house cabling of front doorbell systems, especially with direct activation of magnetic catches from house entrance doors via one of these, possibly small control electronics for each of these would be required, which are already cast in a plug on a mobile phone or smartphone can be plugged-in special cable, and would not have to be made available separately. These direct connection options for inexpensive mobile phones or smartphones to low-voltage in-house wiring of doorbell systems were listed here as a third option for example 3, because the activation of this can be done via a smartphone of a postman similar to example 1 and/or example 2, whereby here for example 3 but all compatibility problems are therefore eliminated from installations of mobile phones or smartphones to central electronic front doorbell controls with different technical characteristics, and this would represent the simplest and cheapest option overall for installations of this for release scenarios for entire districts or large city areas.

Listed in more detail on this, a postman who, for example, serves 230 houses in his delivery area, can then use a worn smartphone to call each of the 230 inexpensive mobile phones or smartphones installed directly to the doorbell systems of the 230 houses for their low-voltage internal house wiring when he approaches one of the 230 The house entrance doors belonging to the houses are automatically controlled separately, in each case a separate connection via the APP and via its smartphone, i.e. a short telephone selection to one of the 230 mobile phones or smartphones, or a short WLAN connection or a short Internet IP Address connection to one of the 230 smartphones is established, or separate controls for mixed installations of mobile phones or smartphones for a total of 230 houses, whereby the difference between example 2 and example 1 would now be that in example 2 with uses from p Smartphones that are worth traveling would have a maximum of 3 connection types available at the same time, a telephone connection and a WLAN connection tion or an Internet IP address connection, instead of just a telephone when using cheap cell phones for example 1, or when using simple prepaid similar cell phones, which only have a simple display and only allow telephone selections.

Here, a database stored encrypted in an APP could then contain a maximum of all 230 GPS data for the 230 house entrance doors of the 230 houses in the delivery area, in addition to a maximum of all telephone numbers assigned separately to these, and/or WLAN names with associated security keys, and/or static Internet -IP addresses of 230 smartphones connected directly to the low-voltage in-house wiring of the corresponding doorbell systems, or at least one of these 3 assignments to one of the 3 possible connection types to one of these, in order to be able to use at least one of these 3 connection types, whereby with the possible use of 3 connection types per smartphone and a failure of one of the primary of the 3 usable connection types, for example a WLAN connection again, alternatively 2 connection types would still be available or these connection types would also change after the use of Cell phones or smartphones, with the use of simple cell phones then only one type of connection can be used in the form of a telephone connection.

Analogous to example 2, the concepts of wireless-WAN-by-remote wakeup and wakeup-on-WAN, or wakeup-on-WLAN or of Wakeup-On-Call can be applied.

Example 4:

Here for example 4, following on from example 1 and example 2, a possibility is presented of central electronic doorbell controls not involving the establishment of a short telephone dialing, or the establishment of a short WLAN connection, or a short Internet IP address connection to one additional inexpensive mobile phones or smartphones that are located and connected to one of these, but these 3 available connection types, or optionally at least one of these, automatically via a smartphone of a postman directly to an internal or an additional external WLAN connection central electronic doorbell control, or directly to an internal xDSL router of one of these, or to an additional external xDSL router connected to one of these, or directly to an internal WLAN connection of an internal or external xDSL router of one of these, or directly to one the most t 3 available telephone numbers of an internal or external xDSL router of one of these,
A central electronic front door bell control, as well as an external xDSL router that may be connected to this nearby via a short electrical cable, can then be located anywhere in a house. Several connection options would thus be used for each of the 3 available connection types
can be, which would then be based on the technical characteristics of individual central electronic front door bell controls, or on the additionally created technical connection options to these consequently additionally installed electronic components.

A prerequisite for this would be that each of the central electronic doorbell controls to be controlled in several houses has a higher level of technology, although this would probably not be the case very often at the moment, or these connection options were therefore listed last here for example 4. One of these central electronic doorbell controls would then have to have at least a simple internal or externally provided WLAN connection, or the possibility of a WLAN stick that could be plugged into one of these externally, or one of these would have an internal xDSL router, which would also have one WLAN connection provides, or one This has a common standardized network connection, or a LAN connection, for example in the common RJ-45 connection format, which is usually used for maintenance work, including a connection to a laptop, and to which an external xDSL is also used router can be permanently connected via a short network cable, and which in turn can also provide a WLAN connection. Since this would require a telephone or online flat rate with a permanently installed cable connection for each house when using a telephone connection or an Internet IP address connection to an xDSL router, such usage options would be limited by the additional costs of the Provision of lines can be considered or worthwhile, especially for larger multi-tenant residential or commercial buildings with many tenants. An encrypted database stored in an APP of a postman's smartphone can then be used in addition to all GPS data for any front doors of all houses in its delivery area, additionally via all these separately assigned WLAN names with associated security keys of the internal and/or external WLAN connections of a central electronic doorbell control, and/or via all WLAN names with associated security keys, and/or via all static Internet IP Addresses of the internal and/or external xDSL router of a central electronic front door bell control, and/or one of the 3 dialable telephone numbers of the internal and/or external xDSL router of a central electronic front door bell control. Analogously to example 3, it is then possible to use the maximum of 3 available connection types, or with WLAN connections, or with Internet IP address connections, or with telephone connections, via the smartphone of a postman, 230 house entrance doors to his delivery area automatically released separately by using one of the 3 available connection types for the existing or additionally created technical options for 230 central electronic doorbell controls, or for internal or external WLAN connections This, or for internal or external xDLS routers or WLAN -Connectors This.

Likewise, the concepts of wireless WAN by remote wakeup and wakeup on WAN listed here, analogous to example 2, could also be applied to the xDSL routers by means of energy-saving and connection-restricting measures, with an internal or an external xDSL router a central electronic front door bell control an online connection established by this is automatically cleared down again after a short time, and an xDLS router can be put into an idle state if an online connection is not used, or Wakeup-On-WLAN or Wakeup-On-Call to wake up an xDSL router when using one of these 2 connection types, or a WLAN connection or a telephone connection to one of these.

Overall, especially for example 2 to example 4, it should also be stated here that for the maximum 3 available connection types of telephone connections, or WLAN connections, or Internet IP address connections, at least one of these 3 connection types each can be used for a single, separate release scenario for each individual front door of a house in an entire delivery area, although this can also be done with different connection options in each case, or would the different technical properties of the individual central electronic doorbell controls, doorbell systems and their additional components of the houses a delivery area can be decisive for the connection types with which a delivery area can be controlled. It would thus be possible to create mixed release scenarios, which would not always require a separate installation of an additional electronic component for one of the central electronic doorbell controls or one of the house doorbell systems.

Here is a short general example. A mail carrier has to serve a delivery area of 210 houses, with 11 of the houses having central electronic front door bell controls with an internal xDSL router, 12 of these having central electronic front door bell controls with an internal LAN connection, 13 of these having central electronic front door bell controls with an internal WLAN connection, 14 of these have central electronic front door bell controls with an internal USB connection, 15 of these have central electronic front door bell controls without extended standardized connection options, and the remaining 145 houses have no central electronic front door bell controls. Advantageously, an additional electronic component would not have to be installed for each of the 210 houses, but at least one of 3 possible connection types can then be used in advance for the 11 doorbell controls, and one of these can therefore be used for each of the 13 doorbell controls with a WLAN connection. In addition to the 12 doorbell controls, an external xDSL router would then have to be connected via their internal LAN connection (each with 3 possible connection types), for each of the 14 doorbell controls, an external WLAN stick would have to be connected via their internal USB connection (each with 1 possible connection type), and an external inexpensive mobile phone or smartphone (1 or 3 possible connection types each) must be provided for each of the 15 central electronic doorbell controls. An inexpensive mobile phone or smartphone would then have to be installed for the remaining front door bell controls of the 145 houses for their low-voltage internal house wiring (1 or 3 possible connection types each).

According to such partially existing and or additional technical conditions for the individual houses, a respective individual design of an encrypted database of a smartphone app for a respective delivery area of a postman would also be based, whereby such an encrypted database as a whole would then be available in addition to all GPS data any House entrance doors of all houses, in addition to this separately assigned data of the available maximum connection options to the electronic components of all houses can therefore have 1, 2 or 3 possible connection types. An encrypted database can then be designed as follows with a maximum number of possible connection options and therefore these available connection types for the example given in the previous paragraph to the electronic components of the 210 houses. This can then be used at most in addition to the 210 GPS data of the 210 house entrance doors of the 210 houses, to 11 houses therefore of 11 internal xDSL routers to be controlled - 33 separately assigned entries (33 connection options - or 3 possible connection types each to 11 internal xDSL routers ), to 12 houses therefore from 12 external xDSL routers to be controlled - 36 separately assigned entries (36 connection options - or respectively 3 possible connection types to 12 external xDSL routers), to 13 houses therefore from 13 internal WLAN connections to be controlled - 13 separately assigned entries (13 connection options - or 1 possible connection type each to 13 internal WLAN connections), to the 14 houses thus controlled by 14 external WLAN connections - 14 separately assigned entries (14 connection options - or 1 possible connection type to 14 external ones WLAN connections), to the 15 houses therefore from 15 external smartphones to be controlled - 45 separately assigned entries (45 connection options - or 3 possible connection types each to 15 external smartphones) and for the remaining 145 houses thus controlled by 145 smartphones directly connected to low-voltage indoor wiring - 435 separately assigned entries (435 connection options - or 3 connection types each to 145 smartphones), which corresponds to a total of 576 additional entries to the 210 GPS data entries in the database. As already mentioned above, such a database design would always be based on the number of houses in a single delivery area and on the technical conditions existing and additionally created for the houses, or also in how far more than one of possible 3 Connection types, if available, should be made available as an alternative.

Furthermore, an encrypted database of an APP operating on a smartphone of a mail carrier, in addition to all GPS data stored in this app for any house entrance doors in his delivery area, can also have all address data for any house entrance doors of all houses that are separately assigned to them, or also for these data already available separately in the encrypted database and separately assigned to all connection types and options for the technical components of all houses in its delivery area, including telephone numbers and/or WLAN names with associated security keys and/or static Internet IP addresses for mobile phones, Smartphones, internal and external xDLS routers from central electronic doorbell controls and or WLAN names with associated security keys.

This address data can then be displayed in a simple menu on the touchscreen of a mail carrier using an app operating on his smartphone, with the mail carrier then automatically releasing the corresponding address data for this address simply by finger-selecting one of the address data on the touchscreen matching house entrance door can be triggered at whose state of mind this can be triggered, or the release of the corresponding house entrance door matching his local state of mind is triggered via a wireless control of the central electronic house door bell control or an inexpensive mobile phone or smartphone of the house connected to the low-voltage in-house cabling of the house door bell system. This would be used to advantage if GPS reception to a smartphone of a postman was noticed, for example due to a defect in a GPS receiver on his smartphone or poor GPS reception options due to the location, in order to provide a simple, quick alternative wireless release option via his smartphone at short notice to be able to use.

In order to be able to use the method described here separately for other purposes, or at the same time in a more diverse manner, it can be attempted to increase or to make it accessible to many houses, in particular to multi-tenant houses, or for people collecting garbage containers from different garbage disposal companies, such as household garbage, plastic, cardboard or glass garbage containers, and to use them together with staff from different postal delivery companies. Since garbage collection does not require weekly access to several or many houses, this possibility, which can be used in parallel with the mainly usable automatic release scenarios for postal deliveries, was listed below. The main difference would be this consist only in the fact that an encrypted stored database of an APP operating on a smartphone of a person collecting waste, or at least one person of each individual small group collection collective, then all GPS data for their respective separate waste collection areas and in addition all address data separately assigned to them for any contains the front doors of all houses, or assuming an encrypted database would have to have the data separately assigned to the GPS data on all connection types and options for the technical components of all houses in a respective refuse collection area, again on telephone numbers, and or WLAN Names with associated security keys, and or static Internet IP addresses to cell phones, smartphones, internal and external xDLS routers from central electronic doorbell controls and or WLAN names with associated security keys This, and the autom Automatic release of the house entrance door that suits their local condition is triggered again via a wireless control of the central electronic house doorbell control or an inexpensive mobile phone or smartphone in the house connected to the low-voltage in-house wiring of the house doorbell system.

The respective address data for a respective garbage collection area can also be displayed on the touchscreen of a garbage collector's smartphone via the operating APP, whereby then again when a garbage collector touches one of these address data with their finger on one of the house entrance doors and in the event of a failure a GPS reception to their smartphone, etc., via the aggravating APP and their smartphone via the GPS data assigned to the selected address, the release of the corresponding house entrance door that suits their local condition via a wireless control of the central electronic house doorbell control or one connected to the low-voltage Indoor wiring of the front door bell system connected inexpensive mobile phones or smartphones of the house is triggered.

Since the number of houses in individual garbage collection areas is usually higher than the individual postal delivery areas, these houses would have to have the necessary technical equipment features or have already been equipped, and the encrypted database would then have to have more entries, which are based on the number of the house entrance doors to the houses and the maximum usable connection possibilities to the technical components to these. For example, a number of postal delivery areas located next to one another or one another could first be expanded, which can then be used together in a single refuse collection area.

In order to be able to make such automatic release scenarios even more profitable, or to be able to make them usable even more efficiently, these can not only be shared by people from several different companies delivering mail or collecting garbage, but also separately in the individual private sense to each house for their delivery or garbage collection areas are shared with them, in particular this would be interesting and applicable for several or many tenants of any multi-tenant residential buildings, or possibly also for any tenants of multi-tenant commercial buildings, as well as this could also be used individually for private single-family houses, and a single automatic release scenario for just one house can also be set up separately. A corresponding APP can then be made available by the respective homeowners or property managers to each individual tenant of a multi-tenant residential or commercial building for their smartphones, for example by downloading it from one of their websites or web presences or similar installed and operating APP each have only one GPS data stored in encrypted form, which contains the locally appropriate position for the address of the front door of a tenant's house, or the APP would also have to have the respective GPS data assigned to the individual Connection data to the technical components of a tenant's house, again from a telephone number and or WLAN name with the associated security key, and or a static Internet IP address to a mobile phone, smartphone, or internal or external xDLS router of the central electronic doorbell control or WLAN name with the associated security key to this, in order to be able to automatically trigger the release of the front door to the tenant's house via a smartphone.

For this purpose, a larger button that can be displayed on the touchscreen of the tenant's smartphone can also be provided via an APP installed and operating on a tenant's smartphone, which can be used to trigger the release of the front door to the tenant's house by simply touching it with a finger in the event of a GPS reception failure on the tenant's smartphone can, especially with his state of mind to the front door of his house, or visitors can also simply be admitted into the house by clicking the botton through them on his smartphone, therefore his state of mind in his rented apartment or in his commercial space, or by any person located in these rooms, whereby this is again via a wireless control of the central electronic doorbell control or an inexpensive mobile phone or smartphone of the house connected to the low-voltage internal wiring of the doorbell system Their smartphone and via the APP acting on this therefore the WLAN name associated with the GPS data with the associated security key and/or static Internet IP address to a mobile phone, smartphone, or internal or external xDLS router of the central electronic doorbell control or WLAN Name with associated security key to this, takes place.

Such privately or also individually usable automatic release scenarios via smartphones to any and/or several different doors and gates of individual properties, as well as multi-door or multi-gate releases to these, for example for releases of front garden gates and front doors, and/or driveways and garage doors, would also be detailed can be used for the method, in which case a respective small encrypted database of a smartphone APP then only needs to have a few GPS data on any doors and gates on a property that are to be controlled automatically, or also on these additionally available assigned data for control the technical components of all door and gate controls, as well as possibly additionally one or more address data for entrance doors and entrance gates.

In a preventative progressive sense, the procedure can also aim at several or many houses, in particular multi-tenant residential buildings and multi-tenant commercial buildings with several or many tenants, not with additional inexpensive mobile phones, smartphones, external WLAN sticks or xDLS routers, to the technical conditions that already exist in each case Equip this, but if necessary, to equip these houses from the outset with inexpensive, small, modern central electronic front doorbell controls, which already have an internal xDSL router with WLAN connection, or at least one internal WLAN connection, insofar as not one of these is already in one of the Houses are available, or older ones could be replaced immediately in this sense. This would not only ensure realizations of the automatic release scenarios presented here, but these can then also be used at the same time, mainly privately, for extended visitor identifications, or would then mainly respective private uses of these front door bell controls be carried out separately for each house. It would then be easy to implement, via a website of a web server of an internal xDSL router, such an electronic front door bell control, to provide a smartphone APP for download, for each tenant of a house to create their own online accounts via this website, and to store them in the read-only memory of the internal xDSL router or the front door bell control via a This and via the website to save any ringtones in MP3 format. Now every tenant of a house can allow his relatives, friends and acquaintances to download a smartphone APP from the website via an additional online account created by him for each of them, with each of them being able to download a smartphone app before a visitor downloads from a tenant via the Website and its online accounts can be adjusted separately for each visitor. Such a smartphone APP would then have to be connected to at least one of 3 possible connection types to an internal WLAN connection or an internal xDSL router of the associated by default and in each case prefabricated via only one GPS data of a front door of a house and via the connection data assigned to this Front doorbell control of a house have, and already be available in the read-only memory, or only have data for only one respective address of a tenant's house, with this already existing data in an APP, on a tenant and on a website independently a one-time identification abbreviation that can be created automatically or automatically generated via a web server, must be assigned separately for each individual visitor to each individual APP via a web server, or each of these is also stored in the read-only memory of a doorbell control, and one of these is also stored separately in each individual APP must be saved before a download by a single visitor, for example an attached suffix to one of the telephone numbers of an internal xDLS router or an additional WLAN connection identification code to a WLAN connection of an internal xDSL router. Now, each tenant can separately use this modified APP via the website of the internal xDSL router and its online account, or via any identification abbreviation available in the read-only memory of a front door bell control for a separate automatic release of the front door and/or a bell melody can be assigned to any MP3 file stored in the read-only memory of an internal xDSL router or a front doorbell control, through which the latter can also identify a respective visitor in the case of automatic playback of a this on his doorbell control. Would become a visitor now approaching a house entrance door with such an app tailored for him and downloaded, installed and operating on his smartphone, the house entrance door can either be released automatically, or a separate ringtone assigned to him can be played on the doorbell control of a tenant, or both can be done take place simultaneously, with these separate processes then being controlled overall via a central electronic doorbell control of a house via the identification abbreviations automatically generated by tenants via a web server. This would offer additional convenient options for automatic release scenarios, which would also justify higher acquisition costs for modern central electronic doorbell controls, or at least for houses with several or many tenants.

In the simplest case, automatic visitor release of a front door would be possible, in which, as already explained above, a smartphone app, which was normally only made available to a tenant of a multi-party residential building, would be passed on to relatives, acquaintances and friends, for example also additionally via the download of this from his own smartphone, or also the provision of this via a download from a website of a property management or a homeowner via this, such an APP can then also provide a larger button again, via which then evasively through a visitor either released a front door and or a bell melody can be played on a respective doorbell control of a tenant.

Finally, it should be mentioned here that the cost savings when purchasing cheap mobile phones or smartphones, or external xDSL routers or new, more modern front doorbell controls, which can be required for the process, are in the order of several 1000 or 10000 pieces or even significantly more , or possibly also telephone or online flat rates required for these, would then be available in these magnitudes from manufacturers or telecommunications providers individually much more cheaply, or the process described here would not mainly be about realizing individual separate private release scenarios, but to automate larger release areas. The lowest costs would be usable prepaid similar mobile phones or inexpensive smartphones, which can be installed directly to the low-voltage in-house cabling of doorbell systems, or the acquisition costs for one of these would only be a few cents in this magnitude. Likewise, the total costs incurred could be shared between several postal delivery and garbage disposal companies, or even a small percentage of the respective individual homeowners, by arrangement, because the process ultimately proves to be advantageous for each of them and also convenient for employees of companies and private individuals would. Since almost everyone has a smartphone these days, the smartphone APPs required for the process and their databases could also be easily installed on the private smartphones of people delivering mail and people collecting rubbish, without them possibly having to carry two smartphones with them .

Ultimately, the process described here would offer a multitude of possibilities for realizing automatic release scenarios for house entrance doors, or for enabling, using and expanding these in a variable and effective manner, which should always be considered in a practical manner by appropriate specialist personnel before they are implemented, to find the most efficient ways to realize them.

Claims (1)

Smartphone for a postman, which is designed to carry out a method for an automatic release of front doors, the smartphone comprising: a GPS receiver, which is designed to receive GPS data, and an application, which is designed to to be executed by the smartphone, with the application having an encrypted stored database with all GPS data of all local positions of all house entrance doors of all houses in the delivery area of the postman and being designed in such a way that the smartphone has the GPS data received from the GPS receiver Data constantly locates and updates local positions and constantly compares the received GPS data with all the GPS data stored in the database of the application, the smartphone being designed to, when the smartphone approaches one meter of one of the front doors and at a detected match from the received GPS data with the GPS data stored in the database via the running application to automatically control a corresponding central electronic front door bell control corresponding to one of the front doors so that a magnetic catch of the front door is controlled via the front door bell control becomes; and wherein: the smartphone is also designed to either: a) carry out the magnetic snap by dialing a respective mobile phone or a respective additional smartphone by telephone, the mobile phone/smartphone having its own telephone number and via a cable to the respective central electronic front doorbell control is connected and the database has stored the phone numbers associated with the GPS data; or b) the smartphone is also designed to carry out the magnetic catch via a WLAN connection of the smartphone and a WLAN connection of a respective mobile phone or a respective further smartphone, the mobile phone/the smartphone being connected to the respective central electronic doorbell control via a cable and wherein the database stored static WLAN names with associated security keys of the WLAN ports in association with the GPS data; or c) the smartphone is also designed to carry out the magnetic snap by establishing an Internet IP address connection via a cordless online data connection of the smartphone to a cordless online data connection of a respective mobile phone or a respective additional smartphone, the respective mobile phone/the respective smartphone via a cable connected to the respective central electronic doorbell controller and the database stored static internet IP addresses in association with the GPS data.