Entry technology for building automation

A system for managing an entryway for a building, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a computer-readable storage media connected to the at least one computing processor, wherein the computer-readable storage media has stored thereon a program for a rule-and-role-based smart doorbell program controlling the at least one processor, and wherein the at least one processor is operative with the program to execute the program to:
• access, by a computer system, identity data providing unique biometric identifications and associated names for respective people, so that different persons are identifiable by biometric data received from the respective different persons;
• store roles and associating ones of the roles with ones of the people;
• store rules, wherein each rule is configured to define one of the roles or people and define an action condition and an action, including storing a certain one of the rules configured to define, as a condition for the certain rule, presence of a person at the entryway;
• receive biometric data for a person who is located at the entryway by the computer system from a device for receiving biometric data at the entryway;
• identify a named person by the computer system comparing the accessed identity data to the biometric data received for the person at the entryway;
• determine, by the computer system, that a matching one of the stored rules matches one of the stored roles for the named person, and
• perform the action of the matching rule responsive to the computer system determining that the role for the named person identified at the entryway includes a role other than that of a person who is granted entry and satisfies the action condition of the matching rule, and where the matching rule action that is performed includes the computer system causing a device of the building to perform an action.

A computer program product for managing an entryway for a building, wherein the computer program product is encoded on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer-readable storage medium;
• and
• computer-readable program code embodied in the computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable program code is configured to cause a computer system to:
• access, by a computer system, identity data providing unique biometric identifications and associated names for respective people, so that different persons are identifiable by biometric data received from the respective different persons;
• store roles and associating ones of the roles with ones of the people;
• store rules, wherein each rule is configured to define one of the roles or people and define an action condition and an action, including storing a certain one of the rules configured to define, as a condition for the certain rule, presence of a person at the entryway;
• receive biometric data for a person who is located at the entryway by the computer system from a device for receiving biometric data at the entryway;
• identify a named person by the computer system comparing the accessed identity data to the biometric data received for the person at the entryway;
• determine, by the computer system, that a matching one of the stored rules matches one of the stored roles for the named person, and
• perform the action of the matching rule responsive to the computer system determining that the role for the named person identified at the entryway includes a role other than that of a person who is granted entry and satisfies the action condition of the matching rule, and where the matching rule action that is performed includes the computer system causing a device of the building to perform an action.