Methods and system for employee monitoring and rule and quorum compliance monitoring

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12506735-B2
Application number	US-201816756908-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 2, 2018
Priority date	Nov 3, 2017
Publication date	Dec 23, 2025
Grant date	Dec 23, 2025

Abstract

Methods and system for employee monitoring and business rule and quorum compliance monitoring are disclosed. A proposed system includes one or more tracking systems for tracking movement of individuals in an enterprise, databases of business rules and operations schedules, and a business rules validation system for determining whether compliance with the business rules based on the operations schedule and the movement of the individuals in the enterprise has been achieved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system, comprising:
at least one processor configured to:
perform facial recognition for a face of an individual in image information captured by one or more surveillance cameras at least in part by comparing the face in the image information to identified facial signatures stored in one or more databases to determine an identification of the individual;
analyze the image information to determine tracking metadata, the tracking metadata including the identification of the individual as performed by the facial recognition, a current location of the individual, and an activity performed by the individual at the current location;
obtain, from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, a rule stored for the individual and corresponding to the current location, the rule requiring a condition be satisfied during the activity for compliance with the rule, wherein the condition relates to a ratio of employees to non-employees present outside of an area before or during the activity;
determine the compliance or non-compliance with the rule based on the tracking metadata by at least determining whether the condition is satisfied during the activity; and
send, over a network and in response to determining the compliance or non-compliance with the rule, a control message, wherein the control message is configured to implement an access control function at an access control system.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein to identify the rule, the at least one processor is further configured to:
retrieve an employee job description associated with the individual from an employee resource management system that maintains an employee database; and identify the rule based at least in part on the employee job description.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the rule governs a ratio of employees to supervisors, and to determine the compliance or non-compliance with the rule is based on the tracking metadata, the at least one processor is further configured to determine compliance with the ratio based on the current location of the individual.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-employees are prisoners.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the rule corresponds to an operation schedule, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to determine the compliance or non-compliance with the rule based on whether the activity, the current location, and a time of day associated with the image information corresponds to the operation schedule.

6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to retrieve the rule and the operations schedule from an enterprise resource planning system containing a plurality of rules and operations schedules databases.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to perform the control function in response to the control message.

8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate an alarm by a notification device in response to the control message.

9 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to unlock an access point or maintain a locked state of the access point in response to the control message.

10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to prevent a process or equipment from functioning in response to the control message.

11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to provide, via a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning unit, adaptive climate control in response to the control message based on non-compliance with the rule.

12 . A method, comprising:
performing facial recognition for a face of an individual in image information captured by one or more surveillance cameras at least in part by comparing the face in the image information to identified facial signatures stored in one or more databases to determine an identification of the individual; analyzing the image information to determine tracking metadata, the tracking metadata including the identification of the individual as performed by the facial recognition, a current location of the individual, and an activity performed by the individual at the current location; obtaining, from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, a rule stored for the individual and corresponding to the current location, the rule requiring a condition be satisfied during performance of an action; determining compliance or non-compliance with the rule based on the tracking metadata by at least determining whether the condition is satisfied during the activity for compliance with the rule, wherein the condition relates to a ratio of employees to non-employees present outside of an area before or during the activity; and sending, over a network and in response to determining the compliance or non-compliance with the rule, a control message, wherein the control message is configured to implement an access control function at te-an access control system.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the rule governs a ratio of employees to supervisors, and the method further comprises determining compliance with the ratio based on the current location of the individual.

14 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the non-employees are prisoners.

15 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the rule corresponds to an operation schedule, and wherein determining the compliance or non-compliance with the rule is based on whether the activity, the current location, and a time of day associated with the image information corresponds to the operation schedule.

16 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising retrieving the rule and the operations schedule from an employee resource management system.

17 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
retrieving an employee job description associated with the individual from an employee resource management system that maintains an employee database; and identifying the rule based at least in part on the employee job description.

18 . A non-transitory computer-readable device having instructions thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, causes the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:
performing facial recognition for a face of an individual in image information captured by one or more surveillance cameras at least in part by comparing the face in the image information to identified facial signatures stored in one or more databases to determine an identification of the individual; analyzing the image information to determine tracking metadata, the tracking metadata including the identification of the individual as performed by the facial recognition, a current location of the individual, and an activity performed by the individual at the current location; obtaining, from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, a rule stored for the individual and corresponding to the current location, the rule requiring a condition be satisfied during performance of an action; determining compliance or non-compliance with the rule based on the tracking metadata by at least determining whether the condition is satisfied during the activity for compliance with the rule, wherein the condition relates to a ratio of employees to non-employees present outside of an area before or during the activity; and sending, over a network and in response to determining the compliance or non-compliance with the rule, a control message, wherein the control message is configured to implement

Assignees

• Tyco Fire & Security Gmbh

Inventors

• Ainsworth Peter Alexander
• Westmacott Ian C
• Donaghy Martin J
• Boyes Derek
• Neill Terry
• Mckenna John
• Gallagher Anne
• Paterson Mark
• Italiya Ashish

Classifications

• H04W4/023

  using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds · CPC title

• G08B13/19608

  Tracking movement of a target, e.g. by detecting an object predefined as a target, using target direction and or velocity to predict its new position · CPC title

• G06Q50/26

  Government or public services (business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40) · CPC title

• G06Q10/1093

  Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups · CPC title

• G06Q10/105

  Human resources · CPC title