Person identification system
AssigneeG4S Monitoring Technologies Limited
InventorsTom Coggins, John Potter
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Abstract
A person identification device 100 has a tag 110 with a code and a tamper evident tether 120 able to secure the tag 110 to a person having a body. The person identification device also has a signal generator 140 able to generate a signal representing the code. The tag 110 has a capacitive contact 130 able to capacitively couple the signal into the body of the person.
Claims10
A telephone comprising:
- an output capacitive contact able to capacitively couple a signal comprising a code from a body of a person using the telephone to make a voice call to a further person or receive a voice call from a further person, wherein the code identifies the person and wherein the signal is capacitively coupled into the body of the person from a person identification device secured to the body of the person by a tamper evident tether configured to secure an input capacitive contact of the person identification device to the body of the person;
- a receiver configured to receive, from the output capacitive contact, the signal representing the code identifying the person;
- and
- a controller configured to determine the code from the signal for identifying the person using the telephone to make or receive the voice call, the controller further configured to compare the code against a code database for determining the identity of the person and to send the determined identity by the telephone to a monitoring centre.
A method of identifying a person using a telephone to make a voice call to a further person or receive a voice call from a further person, the method comprising:
- capacitively coupling a signal from an input capacitive contact of a person identification device to the body of the person, wherein the input capacitive contact is secured about the body of the person with a tamper evident tether, and wherein the signal comprises a code that identifies the person;
- capacitively coupling the signal comprising the code from the body of the person to a telephone the person is using to make or receive the voice call;
- comparing the code against a code database to determine the identity of the person using the telephone to make or receive the voice call using the code;
- and
- sending, by the telephone, the identity of the person determined to a monitoring centre.
A system for identifying a person using a telephone to make a voice call to a further person or receive a voice call from a further person, the system comprising:
- a person identification device comprising:
- an input capacitive contact configured to capacitively couple a signal comprising a code that identifies the person into the body of the person;
- a tamper evident tether configured to secure the input capacitive contact to the body of the person;
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- a telephone comprising:
- an output capacitive contact configured to capacitively couple the signal comprising the code from the body of the person using the telephone to make a voice call to a further person or receive a voice call from a further person;
- and
- a controller configured to determine the code from the signal for identifying the person using the telephone to make or receive the voice call, the controller further configured to compare the code against a code database for determining the identity of the person and to send the determined identity, by the telephone, to a monitoring centre.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.