Failsafe operation for unmanned gatelines

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9626818-B2
Application number	US-201615208356-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 12, 2016
Priority date	Apr 30, 2014
Publication date	Apr 18, 2017
Grant date	Apr 18, 2017

Abstract

Systems and techniques are presented for enabling fail-safe operation of an automatic pedestrian access control gate during a health and safety event. Gateline sensor data is received from at least one gateline sensor. The gateline sensor data indicates that an event concerning health and safety has occurred. An alert is generated in response to receiving the gateline sensor data. The alert is transmitted to a remote monitoring device that is remote from the access control gate. A determination is made that a preset amount of time has elapsed since transmitting the alert. A further determination is made that an acknowledgement of the alert has not been received. Based on determining that the preset amount of time has elapsed and determining that the acknowledgement has not been received, a predefined action is triggered.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for enabling fail-safe operation of an automatic pedestrian access control gate during a health and safety event, the method comprising:
determining whether a remote monitoring device is being actively monitored based on input from a camera of the remote monitoring device;
selecting a preset amount of time from a plurality of time periods based on determining whether the remote monitoring device is being actively monitored;
receiving gateline sensor data from at least one gateline sensor, the gateline sensor data indicating that the event concerning health and safety has occurred;
generating an alert in response to receiving the gateline sensor data;
transmitting the alert to the remote monitoring device, the remote monitoring device being remote from the access control gate;
determining that the preset amount of time has elapsed since transmitting the alert;
determining that an acknowledgement of the alert has not been received; and
triggering a predefined action based on determining that the preset amount of time has elapsed and determining that the acknowledgement has not been received.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a sensory notification via the remote monitoring device in response to receiving the alert at the remote monitoring device, the sensory notification including at least one of a visual notification and an audible notification.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining whether the remote monitoring device is being actively monitored based on input from an inertial sensor of the remote monitoring device; and
selecting the preset amount of time from a plurality of time periods based on determining whether the remote monitoring device is being actively monitored.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a report that includes a history of all health and safety events that were detected during a specific period of time.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the health and safety events are categorized by severity within the report.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
transmitting a portion of the report to a user account, the portion corresponding to health and safety events of a certain category of severity.

Assignees

• Cubic Corp

Inventors

• Reymann Steffen
• Smith Gavin

Classifications

• G07C9/10 Primary

  Movable barriers with registering means · CPC title

• G07C9/15

  with arrangements to prevent the passage of more than one individual at a time · CPC title

• E05F1/006

  by emergency conditions, e.g. fire (operating or controlling mechanisms for physical fire-barriers A62C2/24) · CPC title

• E05F15/40

  Safety devices, e.g. detection of obstructions or end positions · CPC title

• E05F15/72

  responsive to emergency conditions, e.g. fire · CPC title