JP4675111B2 - Control system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention, have line recognition of a user ID that possession of a user, to a control system for controlling the apparatus.

In a conventional system for recognizing a user ID, an ID reader is built in or connected to each device constituting the system, and the user ID is read from the ID medium possessed by the user by the ID reader. Sent to the control system.
The system control system has a control table, system control is determined by the transmitted device ID and user ID, and a control command is transmitted to the controller of each device. Thereby, each device of the system is controlled.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-228561 describes that when a different kind of reader reads data such as a card and transmits it to an access control device, the access control device checks the registered data.

Patent Document 2 includes a management server that inputs, stores, and retrieves management data, and a barcode terminal that has a function of accessing the management server via the Internet. The barcode terminal includes a mobile phone unit and a barcode reader. A device that reads a barcode displayed at a predetermined location on a manufacturing site and transmits the barcode to a management server is described.
In Patent Document 3, a non-contact IC tag carried by a person has an antenna and a circuit that receives a signal from a reader and transmits a response signal to the reader. ,
Position information of a person comprising the steps of receiving an interrogation signal issued from the reader, receiving the response signal from the non-contact IC tag, and determining the position information of the person based on the response signal A grasping system is described.

Japanese Patent No. 3312603 (pages 2 to 4, FIG. 1) JP 2002-341927 (pages 3 to 5, FIG. 1) JP 2003-296667 A (pages 4-6, FIG. 1)

Conventionally, the configuration as described above causes the following problems.
Since an ID reader is built in or connected to each device, in a system having more access points than the number of users, the number of expensive ID readers increases and the cost of the system increases.
Further, the installation location of the ID reader is restricted by the shape and size of the ID reader, the positional relationship with the device, wiring, and the like.
In general, there is a problem that it is difficult to correspond two or more ID readers to one device due to an interface problem and a cost problem.
These problems are the same in Patent Document 1 in which data such as a card is read by a heterogeneous reader and transmitted to an access control apparatus.

The barcode terminal of Patent Document 2 transmits the read barcode to the management server, and the barcode terminal itself is not authenticated.
Moreover, in the thing of patent document 3, the non-contact-type IC tag which a person carries is read by a reader, and thereby the position information of the person is obtained. For this reason, when there are many access points,
There was a problem similar to the above.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a control system that can reduce the number of expensive ID readers even in a system having more access points than users. I have to.

The control system according to the present invention is a control system configured to control a device by a device controller that transmits and receives a control command, and is arranged at an access point and identifies an access point An ID terminal that is carried by the user and holds the user ID for identifying the user, reads the access point ID of the ID medium, and transmits the read access point ID and user ID wirelessly, and the access point It has a control table in which the control content according to the combination of ID and user ID is defined , and the control content is associated with one or more devices, and the access point ID and user ID transmitted from the ID terminal The received access point ID and user An ID reader that reads an access point ID of an ID medium, and includes a system control unit that transmits a control command for the device associated with the control content to the device controller according to the comparison between the user ID and the control table And a wireless communication means for wirelessly transmitting the access point ID and user ID read by the ID reader to the system control unit.

As described above, the present invention is a control system configured to control a device by a device controller that transmits and receives a control command, and is arranged at an access point and identifies an access point An ID medium having an ID, an ID terminal that is carried by the user and holds a user ID for identifying the user, reads the access point ID of the ID medium, and transmits the read access point ID and user ID by radio, and access It has a control table in which the control content according to the combination of the point ID and the user ID is defined, and one or more devices are associated with the control content, and the access point ID and user transmitted from the ID terminal ID is received, and the received access point ID and user ID Is associated with the control content according to the comparison with the control table .
It is provided with a system control unit for transmitting control instructions to the appliance controller of the appliance, ID terminal, and the ID reader for reading an access point ID of the ID medium, an access point ID and the user ID read by the ID reader system control In the system having more access points than the number of users, the number of expensive ID readers can be reduced, and the cost of the system can be reduced.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an ID recognition system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, a system control system 1 (system control unit) is connected to a device 6 belonging to the system via a system network 4. The device 6 has a device controller 61 and is controlled by the device controller 61. The ID medium 3 is arranged at an access point such as an object or space, and has an access point ID 31 for identifying the access point. The ID terminal 2 carried by the user is an ID medium 3 arranged at the access point.
ID reader 21 that reads access point ID 31 from the user ID and user ID that identifies the user
22 and user ID 22 and access point ID 3 by wireless communication with system control system 1
Wireless communication means 23 for transmitting 1.
In addition, the system control system 1 has a control table 11 that defines device control contents corresponding to the user ID 22 and the access point ID 31, and recognizes the user by the control table 11.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the ID recognition system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a control table of the ID recognition system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
In FIG. 3, in this table, system control content is defined by a combination of an access point ID and a user ID. For example, when the access point ID is IDa and the user ID is IDα, the system control content is control aα as shown in the table of FIG. Note that the contents of the system control may vary depending on parameters such as time and system status. Further, one or a plurality of devices are associated with each other according to the contents of the system control, and a control command is issued to the devices.

Next, the operation will be described.
In the ID recognition system configured as described above, the access point ID 31 and the user ID 22 possessed by the user are transmitted to the system control system 1 at each access point, thereby controlling the devices 6 belonging to the system control system 1. Information processing is performed.
In this ID recognition system, an ID medium 3 storing an access point ID 31 is arranged at each access point such as an object or space. The ID medium 3 is a non-contact ID chip, a magnetic stripe, a barcode, or the like.
On the other hand, the ID terminal 2 owned by the user has an ID for reading the access point ID 31.
The reader 21 is equipped, and the access point ID 31 and the user ID 22 are transmitted to the system control system 1 by the wireless communication means 23.
Here, a non-contact ID card reader, a magnetic card reader, a barcode reader or the like is used as the ID reader 21. The wireless communication means 23 corresponds to a mobile phone network, a wireless LAN, Bluetooth or the like.
The system control system 1 has a control table 11 as shown in FIG. 3. The system control content is determined according to the comparison between the transmitted access point ID 31, user ID 22, and control table 11, and the device controller of each device 6. A control command is transmitted to 61. Thereby, each device 6 of the system is controlled.

Note that the system control system 1 having the control table 11 is a logical concept and does not matter the actual position, configuration, or form on the system (there may exist as a server on the network, or on the ID terminal). May be present).

Next, the operation of the ID recognition system will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
When the user approaches the access point, the ID reader 21 of the ID terminal 2
The access point ID 31 is read from the medium 3 (step S1). Next, ID terminal 2
Transmits the user ID 22 and the access point ID 31 to the system control system 1 (step S2).
The system control system 1 receives this, and collates with the control table 11 to check the user I
The system control content corresponding to D22 and access point ID 31 is determined (step S3). Based on this, a control command is transmitted to the device controller 61 of each device 6 (step S4).
The device controller 61 controls the device 6 in accordance with this control command (step S5).

According to the first embodiment, in a system with more access points than the number of users, the number of expensive ID readers can be reduced, and the cost of the system can be reduced.
In addition, since the ID medium is arranged at the access point itself, a free layout can be achieved without being restricted by the position of the device.
Further, an interface between the access point and the device is unnecessary, and it is easy to make two or more access points correspond to one device.

A system that controls the equipment belonging to the system and processes information by reading the user ID that the user has at each access point, that is, an entrance / exit management system, a machine security system, an energy saving control system, a PC login system, and attendance / exit It is applied to management systems, financial ATMs, online payment systems, etc.

1 is a system configuration diagram showing an ID recognition system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the ID recognition system by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the control table of the ID recognition system by Embodiment 1 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 System Control System 2 ID Terminal 3 ID Medium 4 System Network 6 Device 11 Control Table 21 ID Reader 22 User ID
23 Wireless communication means 31 Access point ID
61 Equipment controller

Claims (1)

A control system configured to transmit a control command and control a device by a device controller that has received the command,
An ID medium disposed at an access point and having an access point ID for identifying the access point;
An ID terminal that is carried by the user and holds the user ID for identifying the user, reads the access point ID of the ID medium, and transmits the read access point ID and the user ID wirelessly;
And a control table in which the control content according to the combination of the access point ID and the user ID is defined . The control content is associated with one or a plurality of devices, and is transmitted from the ID terminal. receiving an access point ID and the user ID, in accordance with the collation between the received access point ID and the user ID and the control table, and transmits a control command for device associated with the control contents in the device controller system With a control unit,
The ID terminal includes an ID reader that reads an access point ID of the ID medium;
Control system according to claim access point ID and the user ID read by the ID reader to have a wireless communication means for transmitting by radio to the system control unit.

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