Lobby management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11775938-B2
Application number	US-202016746476-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 17, 2020
Priority date	Jan 18, 2019
Publication date	Oct 3, 2023
Grant date	Oct 3, 2023

Abstract

One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to detect an individual who enters into a lobby of a building, retrieve context information corresponding to the individual, update a user profile of the individual to indicate the individual has arrived at the building, and control one or more access control devices to grant the individual access to the building based on the context information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
detect an individual who enters into a lobby of a building;
retrieve context information corresponding to the individual;
update a portion of a digital twin of the individual to indicate the individual has arrived at the building, the digital twin including the context information representing an access right of the individual; and
control one or more access control devices to grant the individual access to the building based on the context information.

2. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein detecting the individual includes recognizing a physical characteristic of the individual.

3. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the context information includes a security metric associated with the individual.

4. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 3 , wherein controlling the one or more access control devices is in response to comparing the security metric to a threshold.

5. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the context information includes a schedule having events associated with the individual.

6. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 5 , wherein controlling the one or more access control devices further includes displaying directions to the individual to a location of a next event on the schedule of the individual.

7. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the context information includes an interested person.

8. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 7 , wherein updating the digital twin of the individual includes transmitting a notification to a device associated with the interested person indicating that the individual has arrived in the lobby.

9. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the context information includes user preferences of the individual.

10. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 9 , wherein updating the digital twin of the individual includes transmitting a notification to a provider of at least one of food or beverage based on the user preferences of the individual.

11. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
detect a vehicle that enters into a parking lot;
identify an individual associated with the vehicle;
retrieve context information corresponding to the individual;
update a portion of a digital twin of the individual to indicate the individual has arrived in the parking lot, the digital twin including the context information representing an access right of the individual;
transmit a notification to a lobby personnel indicating that the individual has arrived in the parking lot; and
control one or more access control devices to grant the individual access to a building associated with the parking lot based on the context information.

12. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein detecting the vehicle includes recognizing a license plate of the vehicle.

13. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein the context information includes a security metric associated with the individual.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 13 , wherein controlling the one or more access control devices is in response to comparing the security metric to a threshold.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein identifying the individual includes recognizing a physical characteristic of the individual.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein the context information includes a schedule having events associated with the individual.

17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 16 , wherein controlling the one or more access control devices further includes displaying to the individual directions to a location of a next event on the schedule of the individual.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein the context information includes interested persons.

19. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 18 , wherein the one or more processors transmit a notification to a device associated with at least one of the interested persons indicating that the individual has arrived in the parking lot.

20. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
detect an individual who enters into a lobby of a building;
retrieve context information corresponding to the individual;
update at least a portion of a digital twin to indicate the individual has arrived at the building, the digital twin including the context information representing an access right of the individual;
determine environmental characteristics of the lobby; and
generate an action based on the context information and the environmental characteristics of the lobby.

Assignees

• Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP

Inventors

• Ma Ada L
• Sinha Sudhi R
• Paulson Erik S
• Hobson Elyse R
• Park Youngchoon
• Ploegert Justin J
• Schuster Kelsey Carle

Classifications

• G05B15/02

  electric · CPC title

• G07C9/215

  the system having a variable access-code, e.g. varied as a function of time · CPC title

• G07C9/27

  with central registration · CPC title

• G06Q10/1093 Primary

  Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups · CPC title

• G06Q10/1095 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic