DE4236044C2 - Device for access and access control in bicycle storage systems - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a device for access and access control in Bicycle storage systems for theft-proof and protected bicycle storage Railway stations, businesses, public institutions, etc., where bicycles are used for the purpose of safe storage in a common storage room in stands.

Devices are known the each Secure the bike individually. They are based, you can see from the multitude of different bicycle locks for individual use, all based on the classic bicycle lock principle with a chain and a lock, the lock being replaced by a fixed coin lock (e.g. "Bicycle safety device" according to DP 8 11 406). From the Netherlands are plans for the Creation of automatic and semi-automatic bicycle storage with magnetic cards known where the bikes automatically, e.g. B. stowed by robots (ADFC "Research Service Bicycle 168" M. E. Bekker). In addition to these specifically for the purpose of Bicycle storage related devices are various devices have been patented for access control (including "access control system" according to DE-OS 40 34 783, "Access control system" according to DE-OS 40 27 491, "Access control device" after DE-OS 40 25 477). However, these devices all contain only one access but not an access control. The same applies to the usual in car parks for motor vehicles Arrangements ("self-collecting monitoring system" according to DE-OS 36 08 165, "Computer-controlled handling system for parking garages or parking lots" after DE-OS 37 15 314, "Self-collecting parking space monitoring system" according to DE-OS 33 07 986, "System for monitoring the entrance and exit of a parking garage" according to DE-OS 28 43 723), at who have no control over the assignment of the removed vehicles to the withdrawing person is carried out, but only the control for the proper payment of the Parking space is guaranteed. In DE-PS 39 04 826 an "arrangement for displaying the Occupied state of a parking area ", but this arrangement is also not here used for the realization of an access control.

Magnetic card readers and similar devices for machine reading are also known an ID card. Revolving doors that are used to secure the storage rooms are also known. For this purpose, a "turnstile is to be mentioned, that people walking through a given passage in only one direction allowed "(DE-OS 27 58 971). Furthermore, electrical switches are known as indicators according to DE-OS 33 19 829.  

The object of the invention is to provide a device for access and access control in bicycle storage systems, in which the bikes in a common storage room Stands are adjustable to create, which eliminates the disadvantages of the prior art.

This object is achieved by those specified in the characterizing part of patent claim 1 Features resolved.

The device for access and access control is characterized by a storage room ( 1 ) which has at least one user door ( 2 ) and at least one bicycle door ( 3 ). The user door ( 2 ) and the bicycle door ( 3 ) are designed so that only the user ( 4 ) or the bicycle ( 5 ) can pass them. This prevents the user door ( 2 ) or the bicycle door ( 3 ) from being passed together by the user ( 4 ) and the bicycle ( 5 ). Both the user door ( 2 ) and the bicycle door ( 3 ) can be blocked or released by a controller ( 8 ).

The user door ( 2 ) is spatially arranged so that it can only be passed by the user ( 4 ) after the bicycle ( 5 ) has been pushed in completely through the bicycle door ( 3 ) into the storage room ( 1 ).

Stands ( 6 ) for accommodating the bicycles ( 5 ) are arranged within the storage space ( 1 ). Each stand ( 6 ) has a switching device ( 7 ) which detects the occupancy status of the stand ( 6 ) and reports it to the controller ( 8 ).

Control devices ( 9 ), which have a reading device for machine-readable data carriers ( 10 ), are arranged both outside and inside the storage room ( 1 ). Before entering or leaving the storage room ( 1 ), the access and use authorization of the user ( 4 ) is checked by reading the content of the data carriers ( 10 ) at the control devices ( 9 ).

The data carriers ( 10 ) have information about a permanently assigned stand ( 6 ) in the storage room ( 1 ). The control ( 8 ) compares the information read by the machine-readable data carriers ( 10 ) with the information about the occupancy of the stand ( 6 ) stored in the control ( 8 ). For this purpose, the control ( 8 ) is connected to the control devices ( 9 ) and the switching devices ( 7 ) on the stands ( 6 ).

After successful comparison of the read and stored information, the user door ( 2 ) and the bicycle door ( 3 ) are released, otherwise they remain in the locked state.

A preferred further development is shown in subclaim 2. This provides for the possibility that the machine-readable data carriers ( 10 ) contain, in addition to the information about a permanently assigned stand ( 6 ) in the storage room ( 1 ), information about the occupancy status (USED / UNUSED).

The basic idea according to the invention is not to check whether the bike ( 5 ) that a user ( 4 ) removes from the system is the same as that in a conventional bicycle storage, but instead to check whether the User ( 4 ) removes the bicycle ( 5 ) from the same stand ( 6 ) in which he previously parked it. The bicycles ( 5 ) parked in the numbered stands ( 6 ) are checked via the switching devices ( 7 ) on the stands ( 6 ), which are actuated manually or automatically when a bicycle ( 5 ) is parked in the stand ( 6 ). If the user ( 4 ) was not authorized to remove a bicycle ( 5 ), the bicycle door ( 3 ) remains locked. The user ( 4 ) is given access to the system if he has been recognized as having access authorization by reading his valid machine-readable data carrier ( 10 ). If this is the case, the controller ( 8 ) first unlocks the bicycle door ( 3 ). As soon as this door behind the bicycle ( 5 ) has closed again and the bicycle ( 5 ) is thus in the system, the user door ( 2 ) also opens. The user ( 4 ) then places his bicycle ( 5 ) in the stand ( 6 ) of the system, which is identified as belonging to his data carrier ( 10 ) (e.g. by numbering the stand ( 6 )). When the bicycle ( 5 ) is parked in the stand ( 6 ), the electrical switching device ( 7 ) on the stand ( 6 ) is actuated. The user ( 4 ) leaves the system without further control. It is only possible to re-enter the system after the controller ( 8 ) has checked whether the bicycle ( 5 ), which has been checked, using the newly read data carrier ( 10 ) and the state of the switching device ( 9 ) belonging to this data carrier ( 10 ) belongs to this user, is located in the facility. If this is the case, the locking of the user door ( 2 ) is released. Leaving the system with a bicycle ( 5 ) is only possible by unlocking the bicycle door ( 3 ) when the control ( 8 ) shows that the newly read data carrier ( 10 ) and the status of the stand switching device ( 7 ) belong together when removing them of the bicycle ( 5 ) has been actuated.

Depending on the software used, the controller ( 8 ) offers various options that go beyond the simple function of the system. Is next to the storage system z. B. a repair shop, or the system belongs to a train station, an alarm can be given to the staff via an acoustic signal in different operating states of the system. This can be the case if one of the switching devices ( 7 ) is actuated without authorization, if a user ( 4 ) who has exceeded the retention time tries to get into the system, if there are faults in the system or if a user stays for longer than one the specified time in the system. Such an alarm is also conceivable for longer distances over the telephone network.

According to the principle of the invention and linked to storage, the rental of bicycles can also be automated with the option of returning the borrowed bike at any storage. Part of the stand ( 6 ) is reserved for rental bicycles and equipped accordingly. The electrical switching device ( 7 ) can be realized on these stands ( 6 ) as a bicycle lock, which can be taken along with the bicycle ( 5 ). Instead of a magnetic card for storage, the rental customer receives a magnetic card, stating his personal details, which entitles him to borrow one or more times. If the controller ( 8 ) has recognized its validity, this card allows him to enter the station and leave the station with a bicycle ( 5 ) from one of the stands ( 6 ) provided for rental. The customer can therefore choose a suitable one from several available bikes. The borrowed bike ( 5 ) can be returned at any other station. The registration of the correct delivery takes place by actuating the switching device ( 7 ) on the stand ( 6 ) when parking the bicycle ( 5 ).

The ability to return the bike ( 5 ) to any station requires online data transmission between the individual stations. This could expediently take place via the telephone network or via radio. As long as such a link is not yet implemented, a station can also be operated individually.

Last but not least, a simple access control for motor vehicles parked in parking garages can be implemented according to the principle according to the invention without the need for access control. Here, instead of the electrical switching device on the bicycle stand z. B. an arrangement according to DE-PS 39 04 826 on the parking area. The bicycle door ( 3 ) would be replaced by a barrier and the user door ( 2 ) designed as a free passage. The control algorithm is simplified accordingly by eliminating the access control.

The invention will be explained in more detail using an exemplary embodiment. In the Shows drawings

Fig. 1 shows the principle of bicycle storage in the storage room ( 1 ) and

Fig. 2 shows the linkage of the elements of the security system.

Principle ( Fig. 1)

All customers use a common storage room ( 1 ).

Access control to this room is fully automated using magnetic cards. After payment, the user ( 4 ) receives a magnetic card labeled with a number on a machine provided for this purpose, on the magnetic strip of which the same number is encoded. The user ( 4 ) places his bicycle ( 5 ) in a stand ( 6 ) inside the station, which has the same number as the associated magnetic card. When parking, the weight of the bicycle ( 5 ) closes an electrical contact on this stand ( 6 ). Leaving the station with a bicycle ( 5 ) is only permitted if the stand number, whose switching device ( 7 ) was opened when the bicycle ( 5 ) was removed, matches the number coded on the magnetic card.

The magnetic card readers, stand contacts and door latches are checked and controlled through a tax calculator. This can be a complete PC, which also gives the possibility of Remote monitoring of the system is used, or a permanently programmed control.

Way of the user a) entrance with bicycle ( 5 )

Issue of a magnetic card (day card) against payment at the card dispenser or purchase one Monthly or annual card on one Sales booth near the storage facility) at train stations e.g. B. ticket office).

After inserting this card into a magnetic card reader at the entrance, entry is successively first through a bicycle door ( 3 ) for the bicycle ( 5 ), then through a user door ( 2 ) in the form of a revolving door for the user ( 4 ).

Park the bicycle ( 5 ) in the stand ( 6 ) of the storage room ( 1 ), which has the same number as the magnetic card, thereby closing the contact on the stand ( 6 ).

b) Exit without a bike ( 5 )

The exit without a bicycle ( 5 ) takes place without further control by means of a turnstile which rotates freely in this direction.

c) Entrance without a bike ( 5 )

The entrance without a bike ( 5 ) is through the same revolving door, which is blocked in this direction. The blocking is released when the user ( 4 ) passes his valid magnetic card through the magnetic card reader.

d) exit by bike ( 5 )

The user removes his bike ( 5 ) from the stand ( 6 ). The contact on the stand ( 6 ) is opened again. He then inserts the magnetic card into the magnetic card reader at the exit inside the storage room ( 1 ). If the card is a day card, the card will be retained by the magnetic card reader and monthly cards will be returned. If the card bears the same number as a stand ( 6 ) that was released during the customer's stay in the system, the lock on the bicycle door ( 3 ) towards the exit is released and the customer leaves the bicycle ( 5 ) Station.

Components of the system ( Fig. 2) Revolving door (user door ( 2 ))

The user door ( 2 ), designed as a revolving door, enables unhindered leaving the station without a bicycle. Passing by bike must be impossible. The revolving door takes up the entire height of the door opening in the wall of the storage building. It has approximately the same dimensions as the turnstiles used in supermarkets.

The revolving door is normally blocked in the entry direction. The blocking is released

• a) if a magnetic card has been inserted into the magnetic card reader at the entrance, and a Bicycle has already passed the bicycle lock, which is located in front of the revolving door;
• b) if a card has been read by the magnetic card reader for which the associated stand already occupied inside the station.

This means that the station can only be entered if the bike belonging to the customer is already there in storage. This prevents people who have no bike in the Parked, enter the station.

Bicycle door ( 3 )

The bicycle door is designed so that it is very difficult for a person to pass. she only has the maximum height of a bicycle. This input / output is lockable Locked, which can be opened in the direction of the entrance or exit can. The status of this lock (locked or open) is reported to the control computer. The Bicycle door is in front of the revolving door for the passage of people. So the customer pushes his Similar to the shopping trolley in some supermarkets, first cycle alongside them Bike door. Only when it has closed again behind the bike, is it unlocked the revolving door.  

Magnetic card reader

Standard magnetic card readers are used as the automatic control device three door bolts and the two door contacts can be controlled via a computer. It will two different magnetic card readers are used. At the entrance comes a robust, weatherproof Insert reader for use; a swipe reader is used at the exit inside, which reads the Possibility to completely withdraw day tickets and expired season tickets and into one Store magazine. When recognizing a still valid monthly or annual card, the Cards, on the other hand, forward again, are returned to the customer.

When entering the station without a bike, it is checked whether the customer has a valid magnetic card and whether a bicycle is actually parked on the stand belonging to this card is. This prevents you from having to park your bike without having bought a day ticket have access to the station to remove parts of bicycles.

When leaving the station by bike, the magnetic card is read by the magnetic card reader on Led out. Vote the number of the magnetic card and the  Number of in attendance of the stand that has become free for this customer, the exit is released.

Switching device

Various variants are conceivable for the specific design of the switching device. One possibility is a contact that is automatically under the weight of the parked Bike closes. Another option would be an electrical one attached to the stand Cable that is looped through the bicycle like a bicycle lock and the electrical Establishes contact via a plug. It is also conceivable to put the whole bike in the circuit to involve. Depending on the location of the connections, important individual parts, such as the wheels, are protected against theft.

Card issuing machine

The card issuing machine is a simple machine for issuing magnetic cards for one Day when the corresponding amount of money is inserted. Monthly and annual cards are for security reasons at a suitable sales stand or in a shop near the system sold.  

Reference list

1 storage room
2 user door
3 bike door
4 users
5 bike
6 stands
7 switching device
8 control
9 control device
10 data carriers (ID card)

Claims (2)

1. A device for access and access control in bicycle storage systems in which the bicycles can be parked in stands in a common storage room, characterized in that
that the storage room ( 1 ) has at least one user door ( 2 ) and at least one bicycle door ( 3 ),
that the user door ( 2 ) and the bicycle door ( 3 ) are designed in such a way that the user ( 4 ) and the bicycle ( 5 ) prevent the user door ( 2 ) or the bicycle door ( 3 ) from passing together,
that the user door ( 2 ) and the bicycle door ( 3 ) can be locked or released by a controller ( 8 ),
that the user door ( 2 ) is arranged such that it can only be passed into the storage room ( 1 ) after the bicycle ( 5 ) has been pushed in,
that within the storage space ( 1 ) each stand ( 6 ) is assigned a switching device ( 7 ) which detects the occupancy status of the stand ( 6 ) and reports it to the control ( 8 ),
that control devices ( 9 ) with a reading device for machine-readable data carriers (ID cards) ( 10 ) are arranged inside and outside the storage room ( 1 ),
that the data carriers (ID cards) ( 10 ) have information about a permanently assigned stand ( 6 ) in the storage room ( 1 ),
that the control devices ( 9 ) and the switching devices ( 7 ) are in operative connection with the controller ( 8 ), and
that the controller ( 8 ) compares the information read from the machine-readable data carriers (ID cards) ( 10 ) with the information stored in the controller ( 8 ) about the occupancy of the stand ( 6 ) and the user door ( 2 ) and the bicycle door ( 3 ) locks or releases. 2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that

• - That the data carrier ( 10 ) contains information about the state of occupancy (occupied / not used) of the stand ( 6 ) to be assigned, and
• - That the latter information is compared in the controller ( 8 ) with the current occupancy status reported by the switching device ( 7 ).