EP2398002A1 - Verfahren und zugehörige Schutzvorrichtung zum Schützen von mindestens einem Objekt - Google Patents

Verfahren und zugehörige Schutzvorrichtung zum Schützen von mindestens einem Objekt Download PDF

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EP2398002A1
EP2398002A1 EP10305647A EP10305647A EP2398002A1 EP 2398002 A1 EP2398002 A1 EP 2398002A1 EP 10305647 A EP10305647 A EP 10305647A EP 10305647 A EP10305647 A EP 10305647A EP 2398002 A1 EP2398002 A1 EP 2398002A1
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Marc Van Den Broeck
Hans Van Herreweghe
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B13/00—Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
    • G08B13/02—Mechanical actuation
    • G08B13/14—Mechanical actuation by lifting or attempted removal of hand-portable articles
    • G08B13/1427—Mechanical actuation by lifting or attempted removal of hand-portable articles with transmitter-receiver for distance detection
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
    • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
    • G08B21/0202—Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
    • G08B21/0269—System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
    • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
    • G08B21/0202—Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
    • G08B21/0275—Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS] tag technology used for parent or child unit, e.g. same transmission technology, magnetic tag, RF tag, RFID
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
    • G08B21/18—Status alarms
    • G08B21/24—Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms

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  • the present invention relates to a Method for guarding at least one object according to the preamble of claim 1, a related system according to the preamble of claim 6 and a related object guarding device according to the preamble of claim 11.
  • the Bluetooth connection is interrupted which is detected directly and results in an alarm event in which the user is notified of loss of a guarded object.
  • such Bluetooth tag attached to the guarded object is an active device including a transceiver that requires a power source which regularly needs to be recharged in order to actively support the established Bluetooth connection.
  • each guarded object needs to be equipped with a dedicated tag including a Bluetooth transceiver and a dedicated Bluetooth connection needs to be established continuously in order to guard each of the objects.
  • An objective of the present invention is to provide a Method for guarding at least one object and related devices of the above known type but wherein the mentioned disadvantage does not occur.
  • this object is achieved by the guarding at least one object according to claim 1, a related system according to claim 6 and a related object guarding device according to claim 11.
  • the guarding device determines the presence of each of the at least one object through reading the tag that is associated with the object to be guarded over a short-range wireless connection, the presence of a tag can be determined by the fact that a tag-identification can be read out and further based on the tag-identification it can be determined which tag is read out which object to be guarded is found to be present.
  • each object is associated with tag having a unique identification in the reading based on the unique identification the present object to be guarded can be identified.
  • a tag may be a RFID-tag which is a passive tag that must be read out by an active tag reader. Hence no continuous connection is necessary between the tag and the tag reader.
  • the objects to be guarded first are registered at the guarding device which incase of RFID tags can be done by touching the RFID-tag of the object to the reader of the guarding device.
  • Such short range wireless connection may be in a range of up to approximately 4 meters which depends on the type of tag.
  • High-frequency tags are read from about 1 meter and UHF tags are read from 3 to 6 meters .
  • the guarding device is able to determine a location of each of the at least one objects to be guarded. By determining a location of such objects the traceability of such object is improved significantly.
  • each of the objects to be guarded is substantially the same location as the location of the guarding device as the reach of such a tag is relatively small.
  • the reach of such a tag is dependent on the type of tag.
  • Such location may be determined using a location determination part like Global positioning System further referred to as GPS, alternatively applying GSM triangulation techniques or any other suitable method for location determination like the application of femtocells in case of indoor use.
  • the location may be determined by an external device that communicates a determined location over a wired or wireless link to the guarding device.
  • Such Location determination part LDP may be integrated in the guarding device or alternatively be a separate external device that is coupled to the guarding device GD.
  • the location may be stored continuously at reading the unique identification of the tag associated to an object to be guarded or alternatively may be stored only at detection that the object to be guarded is not present indicating a last known position of the object to be guarded.
  • the Current GPS coordinates of the Guarding device linked is linked to the tag Identification where this can be done at the guarding device GD itself, or somewhere on a central server.
  • the Guarding Device also has to have some form of wireless connectivity (like WiFi or 3G network). In this way the user always is aware of the last location of the tagged object to be guarded.
  • the guarding device is able to generate an alarm in case the presence of an object of the at least one object is not detected, in order to notify the person of loss or theft.
  • an alarm may be an audible or visual alarm, vibration alarm or a combination thereof.
  • each of the at least one object determined may be forwarded to a central location storage device.
  • each of the objects to be guarded can be guarded and/or traced from a central location or the location can still be traced in case the guarding device is lost as well.
  • the location of the guarding device can be forwarded to the central location storage device.
  • the location of the guarding device in addition to the location of the objects to be guarded can be centrally guarded and/or traced from a central location.
  • the user thereof may via the central location storage server keep track of the location and or recover the guarding device and possibly the objects to be guarded.
  • the term 'coupled' should not be interpreted as being restricted to direct connections only.
  • the scope of the expression 'a device A coupled to a device B' should not be limited to devices or systems wherein an output of device A is directly connected to an input of device B. It means that there exists a path between an output of A and an input of B which may be a path including other devices or means.
  • First essential elements of this embodiment are in the current embodiment the four objects to be guarded, G01, G02, G03, G04 which respectively are a wallet which is associated with an RFID tag GO1, a keychain witch car-keys which is associated with an RFID tag G02, a briefcase which is associated with an RFID tag G03 and a mobile phone which is associated with an RFID tag G04.
  • guarding device GD that is able to guard the presence of each of the objects to be guarded G01, G02, G03, G04.
  • the guarding device may be a separate device including the required functionality, but alternatively may be incorporated in a PDA or Smartphone both with integrated GPS module and integrated tag reader such as a RFID reader. Both, PDA or Smartphone alternatively may be coupled with an external GPS module and /or external RFID-reader.
  • a central location storage device CLSD which is adapted to store at least the current location of each of the objects to be guarded and in addition at least the current location of the guarding device.
  • This device for instance may be located at the users premises at the edge of an access network or be located in the cloud internet network at a central; server. This may be implemented using a web application our cloud-based application being centrally hosted.
  • the guarding device GD is coupled to each of the objects to be guarded G01, G02, G03, G04 over short-range wireless connection between the tag and the tag reader.
  • the RFID tag reader device may be a powerful long-range RFID reader.
  • the guarding device GD in addition is coupled to the central location storage device over any connection like a wireless WIFI or 3G data connection.
  • the first object to be guarded GO1 i.e. the wallet has an RFID-Tag attached.
  • This tag carries a unique identification.
  • the object to be guarded is associated with a tag forwarding part CFP being an antenna for forwarding information stored at the RFID tag at reading the RFID tag by means of the RFID-reader.
  • the Guarding device first comprises a presence determination part TRP that is adapted to determine the presence of each of the at least one object by reading a tag associated with the object G01, G02, G03, G04 over a short-range wireless connection, between the tag and the tag-reader, said tag having a unique identification.
  • Such short range wireless connection in this application typically having a range of approximately 1 meter although higher ranges are obtainable depending on the type of tag and Tag-reader.
  • This presence determination part TRP in this embodiment includes an RFID tag reader.
  • the guarding device may be a NFC enabled device like an NFC enabled PDA, mobile phone like Smartphone with RFID tag reader.
  • guarding device comprises a management part MP that is able to control all the presence determination action for all registered objects, the location handling alarm handling and further associated actions.
  • the guarding device may further comprise a tag holding part THP that is able to hold all tags that are registered together with their associated unique identification and potential other info like a current location or last location of the corresponding object.
  • the Guarding Device GD in addition comprises a location determination part LDP, that is adapted to determine a location of each of the at least one object at reading the tag associated with the object to be guarded.
  • Such location may be determined using a location determination part LDP like Global positioning System further referred to as GPS, alternatively applying GSM triangulation techniques or techniques or any other suitable method for location determination.
  • a further alternative location determination for indoor environments would be the positioning of anchor-tags, e.g. RFID-tags, fixed to certain places where the tag in a unique way determines the location. If such anchor-tag is detected the location of the guarding device and objects to be guarded can be determined to be with a certain rage of this determined anchor-tag.
  • anchor-tags e.g. RFID-tags
  • the location may be determined by an external device that communicates a determined location over a wired or wireless link to the guarding device.
  • the location determination part LDP is a GPS receiver which is included in the guarding device GD, which in this embodiment is an NFC enabled Smartphone having an integrated GPS-receiver.
  • the Guarding Device GD further may comprise an alarm generating part AGP that is adapted to generate an alarm in case the presence of an object of the at least one object G01, G02, G03, G04 is not detected due to loss, theft or other causes due to the tag getting out of reach of the tag reader.
  • an alarm generating part AGP that is adapted to generate an alarm in case the presence of an object of the at least one object G01, G02, G03, G04 is not detected due to loss, theft or other causes due to the tag getting out of reach of the tag reader.
  • Guarding Device GD further may comprise a location forwarding part LFP that is adapted to forward the location of each of the at least one object G01, G02, GO3,GO4 to a central location storage device CLSD .
  • the location forwarding part LFP further is adapted to forward the location of the guarding Device GD to a central location storage device CLSD.
  • the presence determination part TRP of the guarding device GD has an input terminal that is coupled with an input terminal of the Guarding device GD.
  • the presence determination part TRP further is coupled to the management part MP that in turn further is coupled to the location determination part LDP.
  • the management part MP further is coupled to the alarm generating part AGP and additionally coupled to the location forwarding part LFP and coupled to the Tag Holding part THP.
  • the person owns the guarding device e.g. a NFC enabled phone with integrated GPS module.
  • each object to be guarded will carry a long range RFID tag, of which each is equipped with a unique ID.
  • each object that should be guarded is to be registered at the guarding device by touching the RFID tag associated with the object to be guarded.
  • the RFID-equipped items eg wallet, mobile phone, car keys, .
  • the Guarding device which can for example be attached to a keyring.
  • the unique identification of the tag is read and stored in the tag holding part THP. Now the guarding device is aware which objects with an associated RFID tag in the environment of this person are objects that are to be guarded.
  • the guarding device GD After registration the guarding device GD starts continuously reading each of the registered RFID tags subsequently.
  • the presence determination part TRP i.e. the RFID-reader of the guarding device determines the presence of the first object to be guarded by reading a tag associated with the object G01, the wallet in this case over a short-range wireless connection, where the tag has a unique identification. If the wallet is within the range of the presence determination part TRP the tag and unique identification is read and compared by means of the management part MP, with tags and associated identification as stored in the tag holding part THP. Furthermore the location determination part determines the current location of the wallet which in this case is the same location as the guarding device.
  • the presence determination part TRP of the guarding device cannot read the associated tag and corresponding identification, it is determined by means of the management part MP that the tag is out of reach of the presence determination part TRP due to loss theft or otherwise an hence the management part determines to instruct the alarm generating part to generate a visual and/or audible alarm signal, This sequence of checking the presence by reading the associated tag is repeated for each of the registered objects GO2, GO3, GO4. The location for each of the objects to be guarded is determined and possibly stored in the tag holding part THP being associated with the tag and the unique identification.
  • the location of each object to be guarded can be determined and stored only at the moment that the object to be guarded gets out of the reach of the RFID tag reader.
  • the determined location at can be stored in the tag holding Part THP and additionally or alternatively in the central location database CLSD.
  • the Guarding device GD now periodically scans for each of the registered objects within a certain range. If a registered object to be guarded is not within the range of the Guarding device GD, the device will not pick up the Identification of the associated tag of that particular object to be guarded and a by means of the management part MP a alarm-trigger is generated that by means of the alarm generating part AGP will notify the person that lost a regiseterd object to be guarded.
  • the Guarding Device GD further comprises a location forwarding part LFP that forwards the location determined by means of the location determination part, for each of the objects to be guarded G01, G02, G03, G04 to an object location storage device OLSD.
  • the Guarding Device GD further may comprises a location forwarding part LFP that additionally besides the location of each , adapted to forward said location of said guarding Device GD to an object location storage device OLSD. In case of loss or theft of the guarding device, still the location thereof can be traced and be applied for finding back the guarding device.
  • the Guarding device GD now periodically scans for the registered items within a certain range. When an item is not within the range of the Guard Keeper, the device will not pick up the ID of that particular item, and an alarm-trigger will start, noticing the person that he lost his item. In case a registered object is within the range, the location of the object is determined by means of the location determination part LDP, subsequently stored in the Tag holding part THP, under control of the management part MP and possibly forwarded by the location forwardiong part LFP towards the central location database CLSD.
  • Radio Frequency tags also non Radio frequency tags, such as optical or magnetic tags can be applied instead.

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