JP2009163432A - Entrance passage management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dispense with update of user classification information in an entrance passage management system adapted to add the user classification information for classifying a user by his/her entrance passing capability to user information of a user card and manage a passage valid time in entrance passing of the user based on the user classification information. <P>SOLUTION: The entrance passage management system 1 comprises the user card 3 recording user information; a card reader 15 reading the user information of the user card; and a passage management device 12 performing entrance passage management of a user based on the user information, the user information including the user classification information classifying the user for the entrance passage capability, and the passage management device performing, as the entrance passage management, management of the passage valid time in entrance passage of the user based on the user classification information. Further, the user classification information may include birthday information of the user to classify the entrance passage capability of the user based on the birthday information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to entrance / exit traffic management in, for example, a house or office, and in particular, manages entrance / exit effective time based on user information recorded on a card possessed by the user. Concerning traffic management.

  Recently, as part of entrance / exit management in houses and offices, the use of card-type traffic management at their entrances is increasing. In the card-type entrance / exit traffic management system, for example, an access control structure such as an electric lock or an automatic door is provided at the entrance / exit, while each system user has a user card in which user information is recorded. In general, the operation of the traffic regulation structure is controlled as unlocking of an electric lock, opening of an automatic door, or the like based on user information recorded on the user card.

  In addition, in such a card-type entrance / exit traffic management system, the effective traffic time is also managed as security management. In other words, a valid passage time is set, and when the unlocked state of the electric lock or the automatic door is open beyond that valid passage time, an alarm is issued to alert the administrator, or only the valid passage time It is management that operates traffic control structures.

  In such an entrance / exit traffic management system with effective traffic management, setting the effective traffic time becomes a problem, and how to set the effective traffic time greatly affects the effectiveness and usability of the system. . In other words, users of the system include general adults, children, elderly people, and specific users (persons with disabilities, wheelchair users, etc.), and these users have different entrance and exit passage capacities, and the time required for entrance and exit passages accordingly. Is different. For this reason, for example, if the effective travel time is set based on the time required for entrance and exit of general adults, it is too short for non-general adults (children, elderly people, specific users, etc.), and alerts are given to the students. On the other hand, setting a valid passage time based on a non-general adult would be too long for a general adult, giving it a longer valid passage time. Security may be reduced.

  Regarding such a problem of setting the effective travel time, the method disclosed in Patent Document 1 provides one solution. In the “card type gate device” of Patent Document 1, a user distinction method is used for allowing a user to pass through a gate by opening a flapper of the gate device based on authentication by a card. Specifically, information that distinguishes general adults from non-general adults is recorded on the card, and the flapper closure speed is changed based on the user-discriminated information, making it suitable for general adults and non-general adults. The flapper can be closed at the closing speed. Such a user distinction method disclosed in Patent Document 1 can be applied to a card-type entrance / exit traffic management system to solve the above-described problem of setting the valid travel time.

JP 2002-15343 A

  As described above, the card-type entrance / exit traffic management system with valid traffic time management has a problem of setting valid traffic time, but this problem can be solved by using the user distinction method disclosed in Patent Document 1. is there. However, when using the user distinction method, it is necessary to include user distinction information for distinguishing a user by its entrance / exit trafficability in the user information of the user card. There is a distinction between general adults and non-general adults in the distinction of users based on their entrance and exit ability, and children and the elderly are usually non-general adults. In this case, the child and the elderly are relative. Is. That is, a child becomes a general adult by aging, and a general adult also becomes an old man by aging. Therefore, when the distinction between general adults and non-general adults is used as the user distinction, it is necessary to update the user identification information on the user card. For this purpose, the user's age is always managed, and the user is It is necessary to rewrite the card. This increases the burden on the system and also imposes a burden on the user to rewrite the user card. Further, if the user card is not rewritten, the effectiveness and usability of the system are impaired. It will also be.

  The present invention has been made on the basis of the above-described knowledge, and in the case where the user identification information is included in the user information of the user card, the user identification information need not be updated. The challenge is to do so. More specifically, user identification information for distinguishing users by their entrance / exit traffic capabilities is included in the user information of the user card, and based on the user distinction information, the effective passage time at the time of entry / exit of the user It is an object of the present invention to make it unnecessary to update the user identification information for the entrance / exit traffic management system that manages the above.

  In the present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem, a user card in which user information about a user who owns the card is recorded, a card reader that reads user information from the user card, and the card reader read A traffic management device for managing entrance / exit traffic of the user based on user information, and the user information includes user discrimination information for distinguishing the user with respect to entrance / exit traffic capability, and the traffic management device Configures the entrance / exit traffic management system so as to manage the effective passage time of the user at the entrance / exit traffic as the entrance / exit traffic management based on the user identification information, and further, the user identification information as the user identification information The date of birth information is included, and the user's entrance / exit ability is distinguished based on the date of birth information. To have.

  As described above, since the entrance / exit traffic ability of each user can be distinguished based on the birth date information of the user, the user can be distinguished dynamically. In other words, the traffic management device can obtain the age information of the user at the time when the user passes the doorway from the date of birth information, and the user is a general adult or child using the age information. Or non-general adults as old people. Therefore, once the birth date information is written in the user card as the user identification information, it is not necessary to update the user identification information thereafter.

  According to the present invention as described above, the user identification information for distinguishing the user by its entrance / exit passage capability is included in the user information of the user card, and the user's entrance / exit traffic is based on the user distinction information. In the entrance / exit traffic management system that manages the valid travel time of the user, it is not necessary to update the user identification information.

  Hereinafter, modes for carrying out the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 shows a configuration of an entrance / exit management system as an entrance / exit traffic management system according to an embodiment. The entrance / exit management system 1 of the present embodiment includes a server device 2, a user card 3, and an entrance / exit device set 4.

  The server device 2 is composed of a data processing device and functions to process various data relating to entrance / exit management (entrance / entrance traffic management). For this purpose, the server device 2 has a management database 5. The management database 5 can store various data such as user registration data related to system user registration, user entrance / exit traffic history data, and alarm history data related to alarms associated with effective traffic time management described later. Has been.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of user registration data stored in the management database 5. The user registration data in this example is formed so as to record data corresponding to user information (to be described later) recorded on the user card 3 in a table format. Specifically, a card number recording field 6 for recording a card number (which is also a user ID number recorded on the user card 3 as user information), use that is data on the entrance / exit that the user can pass through Available entry / exit data record column 7 for recording available entry / exit data (available entry / exit number, etc.), birth date record column 8 for recording user's date of birth data, user is a specific user (use of disabled person or wheelchair) A user identification flag recording field 9 for recording presence / absence of a user identification flag for identifying whether the user identification flag is identified.

  The user card 3 is issued to a registered user and possessed by the user, and predetermined user information is recorded on the user card 3. As the user information, the ID number given to each registered user in the management database 5, entrance regulation information that regulates the entrance and exit through which the user can pass, the date of birth information of the user, and the specific use by the user There is specific user identification information (specifically, a user identification flag) for identifying whether the person is a person with a disability or a wheelchair user.

  The doorway device set 4 is provided in each of the plurality of doorways 11 to be managed, and the operation is given from the traffic management device 12 to the traffic management device 12 and the traffic control structure 13 such as an electric lock or an automatic door at the doorway 11. It includes a signal input / output device 14 that intervenes in the input / output of an operation state signal sent from the command signal or the traffic control structure 13 to the traffic management device 12, and a card reader 15 provided at the entrance / exit 11. 12 is connected to the server apparatus 2 via the communication network 16.

  FIG. 3 shows a functional configuration of the traffic management device 12. The traffic management device 12 includes a data processing device, and includes an authentication / differentiation unit 17 and a traffic management unit 18 each configured as a data processing program, and also includes an authentication data storage unit 19.

  The authentication / discrimination unit 17 performs discrimination from user authentication based on user information read by the card reader 15 from the user card 3. The user authentication is a process for authenticating whether the user who is going through the entrance / exit 11 is a user registered for the entrance / exit 11. This authentication processing is performed by receiving the user information from the user card 3 by the card reader 15 and collating the user information with the authentication data stored in the authentication data storage unit 19. More specifically, this is done by comparing the user ID number (card number) and the entry / exit regulation information in the user information with the card number and the available entry / exit data in the authentication data. Here, the authentication data in the authentication data storage unit 19 is data taken from the user registration data stored in the management database 5, and the user registration data necessary for the traffic management device 12 of each of the entrances and exits 11. It is configured by taking in from the management database 5.

  On the other hand, the distinction between users is a process of distinguishing the users with respect to their entrance / exit trafficability. This user distinction process is performed using the user information read from the user card 3 by the card reader 15. More specifically, the user distinction process includes a specific user distinction process for distinguishing whether a user is a specific user or a non-specific user, and a general adult and a non-general adult for a non-specific user. There is an adult discrimination process to distinguish between. The specific user distinguishing process is performed by distinguishing users based on the presence or absence of the user identification flag in the user information, while the adult distinguishing process is performed based on the date of birth information of the user. Specifically, the current age of the user is obtained from the date of birth, and the age of the user is compared with a preset reference age for discrimination, thereby distinguishing the adult of the user.

  The processing result by the authentication / discrimination unit 17 is provided to the traffic management unit 18, and in response to this, the traffic management unit 18 performs traffic management when the user passes through the entrance / exit 11. The traffic management includes operation control of the traffic control structure 13 (such as unlocking and locking of an electric lock or opening and closing of an automatic door) and effective traffic time management.

  Here, the effective passage time management is to manage the passage of the user's entrance 11 based on the set effective passage time, and if the restricted passage structure 13 is an electric lock or an automatic door, If the unlocked state of the electric lock or the open state of the automatic door continues beyond the valid passage time, an alarm is issued to alert the administrator, and the unlocked state of the electric lock or the open state of the automatic door When the passage valid time is exceeded, the electric lock is returned to the locked state or the automatic door is returned to the closed state.

  Next, an example of entrance / exit management processing (entrance / entrance traffic management) performed by the entrance / exit management system 1 will be described. The entrance / exit management process includes each process of step S1 to step S17 as shown in FIG. In addition, in the example of FIG. 4, it is set as the case where the traffic control structure 13 of the entrance / exit 11 is a manual door which has an electric lock.

  In step S1, it is determined whether or not the user card 3 is read by the card reader 15. In other words, this is a process for determining whether or not a process of reading the user card 3 by the card reader 15 is received when the user who wants to pass through the doorway 11 holds the user card 3 over the card reader 15. This process is repeated until there is a reading. If it is read in step S1, the process proceeds to step S2. In step S <b> 2, the user information read from the user card 3 by the card reader 15 is transmitted to the travel management unit 18.

  The traffic management unit 18 that has received the transmission of the user information performs the above-described user authentication by the authentication / discrimination unit 17 and determines whether the authentication is established (step S3). If the determination result in step S3 is that authentication is not established, a pass-disable process is performed as step S4. This impassability process is performed, for example, in a form of informing the user that voice cannot pass. When the pass prohibition process of step S4 is performed, the process returns to step S1. On the other hand, if the determination result in step S3 is authentication successful, the process proceeds to step S5. In step S5, the above-described specific user distinction process is performed. Specifically, it is determined whether there is a user identification flag in the user information of the user.

  Here, the passage valid time will be described. In this example, since the traffic regulation structure 13 is a manual door having an electric lock as described above, there are two types of valid travel times. One is the unlocking effective time for the electric lock, and the other is the opening effective time for the door. These traffic effective times include standard traffic effective time (standard unlocking valid time, standard door opening effective time) and additional traffic valid time (addition unlocking valid time, additional door opening valid time). The standard pass valid time is a pass valid time applied when the user is a general adult. On the other hand, the additional pass valid time is the pass valid time applied when the user is a non-general adult or a specific user, and the standard pass valid time distinguishes the user (child, elderly, disabled, wheelchair user) Etc.) is set by adding a certain extension time. However, in this example, it is assumed that the extended time to be added is one type without distinguishing the user for children, elderly people, disabled persons, wheelchair users and the like.

  Returning to FIG. 4, if the determination result in step S5 is that there is a user identification flag, the process proceeds to step S6. In step S6, an additional passage effective time (addition unlocking effective time, additional opening effective time) is set. On the other hand, if the determination result in step S5 is that there is no user identification flag, the process proceeds to step S7, and an age calculation process for obtaining the current age of the user from the date of birth is performed. In the subsequent step S8, the above-described adult discrimination process is performed. Specifically, the age X obtained in step S7 is determined with respect to a preset child discrimination reference age α and old age discrimination reference age β, and if X is less than α or X is greater than β, a non-general adult is determined. Otherwise, it is a general adult.

  If the determination result in step S8 is a non-general adult, the process proceeds to step S6, and an additional passage effective time is set. On the other hand, if the determination result in step S8 is a general adult, the process proceeds to step S9, where the standard passage effective time (standard unlocking effective time, standard opening effective time) is set.

  When the process in step S6 or the process in step S9 is completed, the process proceeds to step S10. In step S10, the traffic management unit 18 outputs an unlock command to unlock the electric lock. If unlocking is performed, the unlocked state duration time is determined in step S11. Specifically, the time from the unlocking at step S10 to the present when the unlocked state continues with the door closed is defined as the unlocked state duration, and this unlocked state duration is set at step S6. It is determined whether it is shorter than the unlocking effective time (additional unlocking effective time) or the unlocking effective time set in step S9 (standard unlocking effective time).

  If the determination result of step S11 is negative, the process proceeds to step S17 to lock the electric lock and the process ends. On the other hand, if the determination result of step S11 is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S12 to determine whether the door has been opened. If it is determined in step S12 that the door is not open, the process returns to step S11. On the other hand, if it is determined in step S12 that the door is open, the process proceeds to step S13, and the door open state duration time is determined. Specifically, the time from when it is determined in step S12 that the door is open until the present when the door is open is defined as the door open state duration, and this door open state duration is set in step S6. It is determined whether it is shorter than the door effective time (additional opening effective time) or the door opening effective time (standard opening effective time) set in step S9.

  If the determination result in step S13 is negative, the passage valid time is exceeded, so that the process proceeds to step S14 to issue an alarm about the passage valid time exceeded. This warning is given to the server device 2, for example. If an alarm is issued in step S14, it will progress to step S15 and it will be determined whether the door was closed. If it is determined in step S15 that the door is not closed, the process returns to step S14. On the other hand, if it is determined in step S15 that the door is closed, the process proceeds to step S17 to lock the electric lock, and the process ends.

  On the other hand, if the determination result of step S13 is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S16 to determine whether the door is closed. If it is determined in step S16 that the door is not closed, the process returns to step S13. On the other hand, if it is determined in step S16 that the door is closed, the process proceeds to step S17 to lock the electric lock, and the process ends.

  As mentioned above, although the form for implementing this invention was demonstrated, this is only a typical example, This invention can be implemented with a various form in the range which does not deviate from the meaning. For example, in the above-described embodiment, the effective passage time is set as the standard effective passage time and the additional effective passage time, and the additional effective passage time is added without distinguishing the user for children, elderly people, disabled persons, wheelchair users, and the like. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is also possible to make the distinction of the user more detailed and set the additional passage effective time corresponding to the extension time. Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the traffic control structure in the entrance / exit was the case of the manual door which has an electric lock, the case where it is another traffic control structure may be sufficient.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the entrance / exit management system as an entrance / exit traffic management system by one Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of user registration data. It is a figure which shows the functional structure of a traffic management apparatus. It is a figure which shows the flow of an entrance / exit management process.

Explanation of symbols

1 Entrance / exit management system (entrance / entrance traffic management system)
3 User Card 11 Entrance / Exit 12 Traffic Management Device 15 Card Reader

Claims (1)

A user card in which user information about the user who owns the card is recorded, a card reader that reads the user information from the user card, and the user entrance based on the user information read by the card reader A traffic management device that performs traffic management, and the user information includes user identification information that distinguishes the user with respect to entrance / exit traffic capability, and the traffic management device is configured as the gateway traffic management. An entrance / exit traffic management system configured to perform management of a valid passage time at the time of user entrance / exit traffic based on the user distinction information,
The user distinction information includes the date of birth of the user, and the entrance / exit ability of the user is distinguished based on the date of birth information. Management system.

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