Container, method, and system for enabling offline access control and for enabling offline sensor data transmission

A method for opening a container using at least one mobile terminal,

• wherein the container includes:
• a main body that encloses an accommodating volume in a multi-sided manner,
• an opening device that is moveable relative to the main body, and
• a lock device configured to selectively prevent a defined movement of the opening device relative to the main body, the lock device including:
• a near-field data transmission device configured to receive data from and send data to the at least one mobile terminal while the at least one mobile terminal is temporarily located within a defined distance range from the container,
• a memory unit configured to temporarily store time data and access data, wherein the time data includes a last opening time point and/or a last closing time point, wherein the access data includes at least authorization data and identification data, wherein the authorization data define, in dependence on the identification data, a condition under which the lock device is converted from a closed configuration to an open configuration by the actuator, and wherein the identification data specify an assignment to the at least one mobile terminal,
• a processor device configured to compare the authorization data and the identification data,
• an electrically operated actuator that is controllable, in response to a defined match of the compared authorization data and the authorization data, to convert the lock device to the open configuration, and
• an energy source that supplies operating current to at least the actuator, the near-field data transmission device, the memory unit and the processor device and that is not a commercial AC supply,
• wherein the at least one mobile terminal includes:
• a near-field data transmission means configured to exchange data with the near-field data transmission device of the container,
• a far-field data transmission means configured to exchange data with a server,
• a processor device configured to execute a control application, and
• a memory device that stores container reconfiguration data and container operating data, wherein the container operating data include at least time data and access data,
• the method comprising:
• causing the processor device of the lock device to store a specific set of container operating data in modified form in the memory unit of the lock device at least after this set of container operating data has been sent to the at least one mobile terminal, wherein the specific set of container operating data is marked for deletion,
• transmitting the container operating data from the near-field data transmission means of the lock device to the near-field data transmission means of the at least one mobile terminal,
• transmitting the container operating data from the far-field data transmission means of the mobile terminal to the server,
• generating new container reconfiguration data in the server in response to the container operating data received from the at least one mobile terminal, and
• transmitting the new container reconfiguration data from the server and receiving, in the at least one mobile terminal, the new container reconfiguration data from the server via the near field data transmission means of the at least one mobile terminal,
• wherein:
• the new container configuration data specify to delete the marked container operating data from the memory unit of the lock device, and
• the processor device of the lock device deletes the marked container operating data from the memory unit of the lock device as a function of the new container reconfiguration data.