RU2378701C2 - System for monitoring visitors - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: physics; signaling.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to systems for monitoring visitors and can be used in different premises, for example for monitoring patients as well as for monitoring workers. A visitor is provided with a personal transceiver with a memory unit, where various information is recorded, for example personal data, medical history, possibility of accessing different facilities. This device can also transmit and receive alarm signals, and there is also provision for remote control of locking devices in premises.

EFFECT: higher quality of monitoring not only during stay time, but also for determining location of the monitored person.

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Description

The invention relates to the field of devices and systems for monitoring visitors and can be used in various organizations, premises, structures (including shielded ones), for example, in a medical clinic both for monitoring patients and for monitoring clinic employees. At the same time, not only the time of their stay in various rooms of the clinic is constantly monitored, but also the exact location. Each visitor is provided with a personal transceiver device with a memory unit, where various information is recorded, for example, personal data, medical history, and the possibility of admission to various rooms. This device can also send and receive alarms.

Various devices and visitor control systems are known. So, it is known a device for automatic personnel records used in mines and mines [1]. This device comprises reading units, a memory unit, a light indication unit, a control unit, a print unit, and a communication unit. The device automatically records only the time the visitor stays in a different room or structure. A device for registering the location of a moving object [2] is also known. The operation of this device is based on a comparison of signals coming from a moving object and signals placed at various fixed points. This device only solves the problem of registering an intermediate location of a moving object.

The closest technical solution to the claimed invention and adopted as a prototype is a method and system for monitoring the presence of visitors, known from the international application [3]. This technical solution comprises a device for recording information that a visitor is in a certain place, a device for transmitting a signal indicating that the visitor is in a certain place, a device for receiving this signal, a timer for setting a time limit to which the visitor can register in a specific place, and a warning device that turns on if the visitor does not appear in a specific place before the time limit.

However, in this application, the control process is not continuous, determining the location of the visitor is very conditional, since after registering only on one fixed transceiver unit, the visitor’s tracking is stopped and he can move uncontrolled. In addition, this system is not noise immunity, and therefore reliable. A personal signal transmission device is supposed to be in the form of a portable handheld computer, which has a significant cost and size. The system does not duplicate the transmitted signal, which also reduces the reliability of the system. In addition, the system does not control the entrance and exit of visitors from a specific place and does not have the ability to send and receive alarms.

LLC MNPP Saturn has developed a visitor control system that is free of these shortcomings. When developing the invention, the following technical problems were solved.

The main objective was the task of maintaining continuous continuous monitoring of all visitors (including employees) who are in any room, structure or in any territory, for example, in a medical clinic, using specially developed inexpensive devices and based on previously developed LLC MNPP Saturn two-wire power information control system SOS-95 [4]. It was necessary to develop a personal transceiver device with small dimensions resembling a keychain. This device must be active, i.e. able to constantly receive, store and update stored information. In addition, the personal transceiver device, and with it the visitor, must be continuously monitored with reasonable accuracy using stationary transceiver units located at different points in the territory or premises, for example, a medical clinic. The system should distinguish visitors according to their status, that is, according to various criteria, for example, “patient or employee”, “access to the premises is allowed-forbidden”, “access to the peripheral information device is allowed-forbidden” and other signs. In this case, the system must issue signals to appropriate devices, which either provide the visitor with the opportunity to penetrate into the room, or are prohibited from doing so. Reception and processing of information should be carried out in the information and computer center, communication with which should be reliable. To this end, the task was to have, with the information and computer center, firstly, two-way wireless communication, and, secondly, communication via a two-wire power information network with transceiver units, peripheral information, as well as controlled locking devices. This was dictated by the need to have reliable communication in all rooms, including shielded ones, where for some reason the signal does not reach the air. The task was set with reasonable accuracy to determine in real time the location of the visitor / visitors by determining and comparing different magnitudes of the signal amplitudes that reached each transceiver unit from a personal transceiver device. These data must be received and processed in the information and computer center according to a special program. In addition, it was necessary to ensure that any visitor could give or receive alarms.

Such a system was developed and implemented by LLC MNPP Saturn. Graphic materials present various elements of this system.

Figure 1 presents a structural diagram of a control system for visitors; figure 2 - room with one transceiver unit; figure 3 is a room with several transceiver units; figure 4 - room with a transceiver unit and a peripheral information device; figure 5 - shielded room with a transceiver unit; figure 6 is a view of a personal transceiver; Fig.7 is a view of the transceiver unit BRK-E; on Fig is a view of the concentrator BKD-ME; figure 9 is a view of a controlled locking device KKD-E; figure 10 is a screen showing the statistics of visits to patients by a doctor; 11 is a screen showing the location of a personal transceiver device (visitor); 12 is a screen showing the activation and deactivation of a personal transceiver device; Fig.13 is a screen showing patient information in a peripheral information device; Fig.14 is a flowchart of information processing according to a special program.

The visitor control system is arranged as follows.

Figure 1 shows the structural diagram of the control system of visitors 1. Each visitor 2, for example, a medical clinic is provided with a personal transceiver device 3, made portable in the form of a key fob (Fig.6), which is constantly located at the visitor 2. Personal transceiver 3 memory 4, as well as two buttons - small and large. By simultaneously pressing both buttons, the device 3 is activated or deactivated. The large and small buttons are used to give an alarm, if necessary. Each personal transceiver device 3 continuously transmits a signal 5 in a short predetermined time interval, which is received by all transceiver units 6. As a transceiver unit 6, for example, a device developed by LLC MNPP Saturn - block radio concentrator floor BRK-E, can be used, presented in Fig.7. In different transceiver blocks 6, the amplitudes of the received signal 5 are different. Various magnitudes of the amplitude of the signal 5 from different transceiver units 6 are transmitted to the information center 7, where they are compared and evaluated. As a result of this, it is determined in which room 8 the visitor 2 is located. At the same time, the visitor 2 can be located in the room 8a (Fig. 2), where only one transceiver unit 6 is located, or in the room 8b (Fig. 3), where several transceivers are located blocks 6. There may be a case when visitor 2 is in room 8c (Fig. 4), where both the transceiver unit 5 and the peripheral information device 9 are located. In case the visitor 2 with the personal transceiver device 3 is located in a shielded room or 8g, then the signal 5 from the personal transceiver 3 is received by one or more transceiver units 6, located in a shielded room or building 8g. The signal 5, received by the transceiver unit 6, is then transmitted wirelessly 10 and / or via a two-wire power information network 11 through a hub 12 to the information and computing center 7, in which there is a server 13 with a special information processing program. As a two-wire power information network 11, it is possible to use the SOS-95 system developed by Saturn MNPP and protected by patent No. 70773 for a utility model [4]. As a concentrator 12, it is possible to use the “BKD-ME Sensor Control Unit” (Fig. 8), also developed by Saturn MNPP. In addition, the information and computer center 7 receives signals from the peripheral information device 9, the managed locking device 14 and the user 15 in the Internet 16. The information and computer center 7 receives, processes, analyzes, stores information, and also, in accordance with a special information processing program, transmits information in the opposite direction through communication lines 10 and 11 to the transceiver units 6, peripheral information devices 9, controlled locking device 14, personal reception transmitting devices 3, as well as to user 15 in the Internet 16. A controlled locking device 14 opens / closes the input 17 or output 18. As a controlled locking device 14, it is possible to use the “KKD-E end sensor concentrator” developed by Saturn MNPP LLC (Fig.9).

The control system 1 visitors 2 (figure 1) works as follows. All visitors 2, for example, in a medical clinic are given personal transceivers 3 in the form of a key fob, which are always at the visitor / visitors 2. When issuing a personal transceiver 3 to visitor 2, it is activated by pressing 2 buttons immediately and various information is entered into its memory unit 4. This information may contain personal information about visitor 2 (for example, medical history), his code and other information or visitor status. Based on this data and its status, the system further identifies visitor 2, exchanges information with it, allows or denies access to various rooms 8. Personal transceiver 3 is configured to be used in various compatible systems and devices that may be located in other different places. The information stored in the memory unit 4 may be updated, changed, withdrawn. When visitor / visitors 2 are in any place equipped with the claimed control system 1 of visitors 2 (in rooms 8a, 8b, 8c), the personal transceiver 3 sends signals 5, which are received immediately by all transceiver blocks 6, except for the blocks located in the shielded rooms 8g The amplitudes of the signal 5, which reached each transceiver unit 6, will be different. The values of these amplitudes transmitted to the information and computer center 7 are processed in the server 13 using a special information processing program, as a result of this, the location of visitor 2, the owner of the personal transceiver 3, is determined. If visitor / visitors 2 are in a shielded room 8g, then signals 4 are received by the transceiver units 6 located in a shielded room 8g. From the transceiver units 6 and from the peripheral information devices 9, communication with the information and computer center 7 is carried out either through wireless communication 10 and / or via a two-wire power information network 11. All signals sent to the information and computer center 7 are processed according to a special processing program information in the server 13. As a result of processing the received information, it is determined not only the location of the visitor / visitors 2, but also the time of their stay in each place. The personal transceiver 3 is also intended to give an alarm by pressing the small or large button (Fig.6). The wired power information network 11 is also used to power the transceiver units 6, the hub 12, the peripheral information device 9, the controlled locking device 14, as well as the information and computing center 7 and other consumers.

The computer center 7 not only receives and processes information, but also transfers it in the opposite direction. This information is intended to be inserted into the data storage unit 4 (not shown) of a personal transceiver 3, for a peripheral information device 9, for a controlled locking device 14, for a user 15 in the Internet 16. The same communication channels are used as described above . A flowchart of information processing according to a special program is presented in Fig. 14.

The peripheral information device 9 is a conventional personal computer. On the display of this computer, the doctor receives the necessary information (Fig. 10, 11, 12, 13) and is also able to enter his information both in the information and computer center 7 and in the memory unit 4 of the personal transceiver device 3. Full information on request is provided and on the display of the data center 7.

The visitor / visitors 2 can use their personal transceiver device 3 not only in the visitor monitoring system 1 under consideration, but also in other compatible systems and devices, regardless of their location.

The controlled locking device 14 can operate by opening the input 17 and / or opening the output 18. The controlled locking device 14 receives a command to open from the computer center 7. This command is issued only after the visitor 2 at the input / output 17, 18 determines the transceiving unit 6 is nearby, then the signal 5 with the data of visitor 2 will be transmitted to the information and computer center 7 and there, according to a special information processing program, its status and the ability to access various rooms will be revealed.

If necessary, user 15 can, via Internet 16, not only receive the necessary information, but also give appropriate orders.

Information that passed through the information and computing center 7, was processed and stored, can be requested and displayed in any form - either on the display of the information and computer center 7, or on the display of the peripheral information device 9, or on an electronic storage medium, or paper medium (printouts on a printer).

The list of symbols in the description of the application.

1. The control system.

2. The visitor.

3. Personal transceiver.

4. The memory block.

5. The signal from the personal transceiver.

6. Transceiver unit.

7. Information and computing center.

8. A shielded room or structure.

9. Peripheral information device.

10. Wireless connection.

11. Two-wire power information network.

12. The hub.

13. Server.

14. The operated locking device.

15. A user on the Internet.

16. Internet system.

17. Entrance.

18. Exit.

Information sources

1. SU 431526, G07C 1/00, 1971.

2. SU 1180943 A, G07C 1/10, 1984.

3. WO 2002/080113, G07C 1/00, 2002.

4. RU 70773, Н04В 3/00, 2007.

Claims (1)

The visitor control system, which includes a personal transceiver contained in each of the visitors with a memory unit, which establishes a wireless connection with the nearest transceiver unit, an information and computer center with an information processing program that has two-way wireless communication with personal transceiver devices and with users on the Internet system, characterized the fact that the system additionally contains a two-wire power information network with a hub, peripheral inf communication devices and controlled locking devices at the entrance and exit of visitors, and the information and computing center is also equipped with a special information processing program and is configured to establish two-way wireless communication and / or communication via a two-wire power information network with transceiver units, peripheral information and controlled locking devices , while personal transceivers are made portable in the form of a key fob with the ability to supply a signal tr and the simultaneous establishment of communication with all the transceiver units, and the signals from the latter by analyzing them in the information and computer center using a special information processing program determine the exact location of the visitor / visitors, the system maintains a constant information flow and information exchange in a short specified time interval, special The information processing program includes the ability to input, store and output personal transceiver devices from the memory block other information in compatible systems and devices, and controlled locking devices at the input and output are made with the possibility of opening or closing after determining the visitors in the information and computer center by their status.

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