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US 12,633,185 B2Granted
Building access control using a mobile device
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorMohammed Farooq Abdalfattah Saqr
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Abstract
A system includes a door lock module for locking and unlocking a door and a mobile device running an access control application that is configured to receive access rights from a server and store the access rights in the mobile device. The access control application identifies a door ID of the door to the secure area and determines whether the access rights stored in the mobile device grant the user assigned to the mobile device access to the secure area of the facility. If so, the access control application sends a door access request to the door lock module to unlock the door, and if not, no door access request is sent. The access control application is configured to send a log entry corresponding to each door access request initiated by the mobile device to the server.
Claims17
A system for controlling access to a secure area of a facility, the system comprising:
- a door lock module for locking and unlocking a door to the secure area of the facility, the door lock module including a wireless communication module that support a first wireless communication protocol and a second wireless communication protocol;
- a mobile device running an access control application, the mobile device including a wireless communication module that support the first wireless communication protocol and the second wireless communication protocol;
- a server;
- a wireless gateway situated in the facility, the wireless gateway including a wireless communication module supporting the first wireless communication protocol, the wireless gateway configured to independently communicate with the door lock module and the mobile device via the first wireless communication protocol, the wireless gateway operatively coupled to the server;
- the access control application of the mobile device is configured to:
- determine whether the mobile device can successfully communicate with the server via the wireless gateway;
- receive access rights from the server via the first wireless communication protocol of the wireless communication module of the wireless gateway, and store the access rights in a memory of the mobile device, the access rights defining whether a particular user assigned to the mobile device has access rights to open the door and access the secure area of the facility;
- identify a door ID of the door to the secure area;
- when the mobile device can successfully communicate with the server via the wireless gateway, determine whether the access rights stored in the memory of the mobile device grant the particular user assigned to the mobile device access to the secure area of the facility, and if so, send via the first wireless communication protocol a door access request to the door lock module to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility, and if not, not send via the first wireless communication protocol the door access request to the door lock module to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility;
- when the mobile device cannot successfully communicate with the server via the wireless gateway, the access control application of the mobile device is configured to determine whether the access rights stored in the memory of the mobile device grant the particular user assigned to the mobile device access to the secure area of the facility, and if so, send via the second wireless communication protocol a door access request to the door lock module to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility, and if not, not send via the second wireless communication protocol the door access request to the door lock module to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility;
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- send a log entry corresponding to each door access request initiated by the mobile device to the server via the first wireless communication protocol of the wireless communication module of the wireless gateway.
9 more elements
A method for controlling access to a secure area of a facility, the method comprising:
- determining, by a mobile device, whether the mobile device can successfully communicate with the server via the wireless gateway;
- receiving, by the mobile device, access rights from a server via a first wireless communication protocol of a wireless gateway that is operatively coupled to the server, the access rights defining whether a particular user assigned to the mobile device has access rights to open a door to access the secure area of the facility;
- when the mobile device cannot successfully communicate with the server via the wireless gateway, the mobile device determining whether the access rights received via the first wireless communication protocol grant the particular user assigned to the mobile device access to the secure area of the facility, and if so, the mobile device sending via a second wireless communication protocol the door access request to a door lock module associated with a door to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility, and if not, the mobile device not sending via the second wireless communication protocol the door access request to the door lock module to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility;
- the mobile device identifying a door ID of the door to the secure area;
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- when the mobile device can successfully communicate with the server via the wireless gateway, the mobile device determining whether the access rights received via the first wireless communication protocol grant the particular user assigned to the mobile device access to the secure area of the facility, and if so, the mobile device sending via the first wireless communication protocol that is different from the second wireless communication protocol a door access request to the door lock module associated with the door to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility, and if not, the mobile device not sending via the first wireless communication protocol the door access request to the door lock module to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility.
3 more elements
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions thereof that when executed by one or more processors of a mobile device causes the one or more processors of the mobile device to:
- determine whether the mobile device can successfully communicate with a server via a wireless gateway;
- receive access rights from a server via a first wireless communication protocol of a wireless gateway that is operatively coupled to the server, the access rights defining whether a particular user assigned to the mobile device has access rights to open a door to access the secure area of the facility;
- when the mobile device cannot successfully communicate with the server via the wireless gateway, determine whether the access rights received via the first wireless communication protocol grant the particular user assigned to the mobile device access to the secure area of the facility, and if so, send via a second wireless communication protocol the door access request to the door lock module associated with the door to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility, and if not, send via the second wireless communication protocol the door access request to the door lock module to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility;
- identify a door ID of the door to the secure area;
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- when the mobile device can successfully communicate with the server via the wireless gateway, determine whether the access rights received via the first wireless communication protocol grant the particular user assigned to the mobile device access to the secure area of the facility, and if so, send via the first wireless communication protocol that is different from the second wireless communication protocol the door access request to the door lock module associated with the door via the wireless gateway and the server to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility, and if not, not send via the first wireless communication protocol the door access request to the door lock module via the wireless gateway and server to unlock the door to the secure area of the facility.
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.