EP0627708B1 - Système de contrÔle et/ou d'enregistrement et/ou d'indication des temps écoulés et/ou des événements successifs dans le temps - Google Patents

Système de contrÔle et/ou d'enregistrement et/ou d'indication des temps écoulés et/ou des événements successifs dans le temps Download PDF

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EP0627708B1
EP0627708B1 EP94107512A EP94107512A EP0627708B1 EP 0627708 B1 EP0627708 B1 EP 0627708B1 EP 94107512 A EP94107512 A EP 94107512A EP 94107512 A EP94107512 A EP 94107512A EP 0627708 B1 EP0627708 B1 EP 0627708B1
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C1/00—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people
    • G07C1/10—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people together with the recording, indicating or registering of other data, e.g. of signs of identity
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    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/20—Individual registration on entry or exit involving the use of a pass
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  • the present invention relates to a system for controlling and/or recording and/or indicating of elapsed time and/or of events following one another in the time.
  • the present invention relates to an admittance control system which is able to confidentially store in a memory the displacements and/or the passages of persons within a given place or a given area.
  • a system which is normally used in a plurality of working places is constituted by the so-called "presence booklets", which are manually filled out and which allow the presences of operators to be checked.
  • Another known presence control system which is for instance used in building yards, makes use of a magnetic card which is associated to each operator, and of suitable computing means (e.g. a PC) which are installed by the yard and which may elaborate, for instance, the entry and exit data or the working time of a given person who would insert said magnetic card in a suitable reading device.
  • suitable computing means e.g. a PC
  • EP-A-0 139 340 discloses a system as specified in the preamble of claim 1.
  • This prior art system is used for recording the working times of truck drivers. It comprises a unit that is fixedly mounted in the truck, in which each driver can insert an identification card.
  • the unit comprises a date clock circuit and a microprocessor with associated memory.
  • the unit associates identification data read from an inserted card with data from the date clock circuit and records these data in a removable data cassette in the form of a RAM buffered by a battery.
  • IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, vol. 23, No. 7A, December 1980, page 2744 discloses a data recorder with time stamping.
  • Said recorder comprises a portable data collection device including a scanner for reading data from a magnetic card and recording said data in a magnetic tape cassette.
  • a time-of-day and data calculator within said device provides a coded representation of date and time to be recorded, along with each data entry made by said scanner; periodically said cassette is placed in a tape reader connected to a control processing unit in which the collected data are processed and interpreted.
  • Document US-A-4,323,771 discloses an automated employee time and attendance system having a central processor and a plurality of sub-systems which are capable of providing data used by the central processor in payroll determination. In this case the collected data are temporarily stored in a magnetic disk.
  • Document US-A-3,889,103 discloses an electronic timer for producing a printed record of time intervals.
  • the timer includes manual, photoelectric, acoustic signal, and other trigger source actuation and can simultaneously measure and record two or more events on separate channels and produce printed records of each.
  • the apparatus is powered by self contained batteries which power a clock oscillator, all electronic timing circuitry and the record or paper tape mechanism.
  • the present invention aims to obviate to the disadvantages and drawbacks which are typical of the background art, and to provide, thus, for a system for controlling and/or recording 1 and/or indicating of elapsed time and/or of events following one another in the time which is transportable from one place to another, which has an extremely low electrical energy absorption rate, which allows a centralized processing of the available data and which warrants the confidentiality of the detected data.
  • the system according to the invention provides for the use of a completely autonomous unit, which is fed by a battery and which is easily transportable from one place to another one, said unit comprising a reading device suitable for receiving a series of data provided in a suitable data carrier which is associated to a given person, and a static memory suitable for recording said series of data.
  • said static memory is provided with autonomous feeding means and may be removed from said unit in order to be inserted into a centralized data processing device which processes the data coming from said static memory, as well as the data coming from other static memories, and which provides for the presentation of the processed data in a visualized way or on a suitable carrier, e.g. on paper or on a magnetic carrier.
  • a suitable carrier e.g. on paper or on a magnetic carrier.
  • said data carrier on which are recorded the data identifying the carrier itself and/or the data associated to a given person is constituted by a key including an EPROM-type memory.
  • Such key is inserted by the operator into a suitable reading device which is incorporated in said autonomous unit, said device transferring such data into the static memory which is removable from the unit.
  • the program which is set in said central unit compares the data recorded in said memory to those which are relative, for instance, to the admittance permission of a given key inside of a given place, and it produces, in the most suitable way, the results of such comparison.
  • said autonomous unit is provided with a visual and/or acoustical signalling device, e.g. a pair of light emitting diodes and/or a buzzer, which allow the person who inserts the key into the reading device to immediately get from the autonomous unit a series of informations, e.g. about the carried out recording of the key data, or about the admittance approval into said specific place, or other.
  • a visual and/or acoustical signalling device e.g. a pair of light emitting diodes and/or a buzzer
  • the autonomous unit may be provided with a data inputting means (e.g. a keyboard) and with a data visualizing means (e.g. a monitor screen); such configuration allows an operator employed for using the autonomous unit to immediately carry out presence checks, either in a merely numerical form or by checking predetermined persons; therefore, it is possible to obtain in a visual way a general layout of the entries and exits in a given lapse of time.
  • a data inputting means e.g. a keyboard
  • a data visualizing means e.g. a monitor screen
  • reference sign 10 generally indicates an autonomous unit belonging to the system according to the invention.
  • Unit 10 is fed by means of a suitable battery 11, by way of example a rechargeable Ni-Cd buffer battery, and it comprises a pair of reading devices 14, 15 suitable for receiving, each, an information recorded on a suitable data carrier 12 which, in this case, is constituted by a key housing an EPROM-type memory on which some significant data are recorded, e.g. identification data of the respective key, or codes for identifying the person who inserts the key, or accession codes etc.
  • each reading device 14, 15 is connected to a memory block 16 which may be removed from said autonomous unit 10 and which respectively comprises a smart card provided with its own CPU in order to decode and to amplify the coded signals coming from reading devices 14, 15, a memory for recording said data, which is suitably buffered by its own rechargeable battery (e.g. a Ni-Cd battery), a date clock circuit, which is buffered by the same battery, an electric connector for coupling block 16 to unit 10, and a suitable interface 17, e.g. a serial gate RS 232 for enabling a possible connection of block 16 to a central unit, advantageously to a PC.
  • a memory block 16 which may be removed from said autonomous unit 10 and which respectively comprises a smart card provided with its own CPU in order to decode and to amplify the coded signals coming from reading devices 14, 15, a memory for recording said data, which is suitably buffered by its own rechargeable battery (e.g. a Ni-Cd battery), a date clock circuit, which is buffered
  • the removable memory block 16 is connected to a data displaying device 19 (e.g. a display or a monitor screen) and to a data inputting device 20 (e.g. a keyboard).
  • a data displaying device 19 e.g. a display or a monitor screen
  • a data inputting device 20 e.g. a keyboard
  • unit 10 is not provided with said data displaying and inputting devices; in this case, memory block 16 is connected to an indicating device 18 comprising a pair of light emitting diodes (LED), whose operating way will be hereinafter disclosed in detail.
  • LED light emitting diodes
  • each reading device 14, 15 houses a signalling buzzer as well as a switch which, as will be described later, allows the system to be fed only if a key 12 is inserted into one of reading devices 14, 15.
  • the activation of the memory may be carried out by a suitable software.
  • a key 12 which respectively serves for entering and exiting the yard, and which is provided with a prerecorded carrier (e.g. a specific memory) carrying a series of informations for identifying the same key, is given each operator whose presence in the yard is authorized.
  • a prerecorded carrier e.g. a specific memory
  • the insertion of a key may run a suitable software program for recognizing the same key, said program recording and processing the data carried by the key.
  • a visual signalling device 18 gives an indication about the fact that data have been recorded and/or about the operator accession permission to the yard.
  • the autonomous unit is provided with a display 19 and with a keyboard 20 by means of which a checking operator may directly and immediately verify the number of presences inside of the yard, as well as, for instance, the entry time and other significant data.
  • the operator inserts key 12 into reading device 15 and a procedure similar to the preceding one is repeated.
  • memory block 16 may be removed from autonomous unit 10 and it may be inserted into a central unit which, by means of a suitable software, specifically processes the data recorded by that autonomous unit, as well as the data coming from other possible autonomous units which were present by other yards, thereby giving the checking operator a graphical, or magnetical, presentation of the presence situation in a specific yard, or in a plurality of yards, relative to a predetermined lapse of time.
  • memory block 16 is provided with a suitable interface 17 allowing the block to be connected to a PC, of a fixed or of a portable type, a checking operator may at any time have available any kind of data processing relative to the presences inside of a given yard.
  • the apparatus may be directly connected either to an informatics network or to a printer.
  • the keys which have been described are constituted by elements containing an EPROM memory
  • the invention comprises forms of embodiment according to which the keys are of another kind, such as for instance magnetic cards, badges, etc., as well as forms of embodiment according to which a single reading device is provided for each unit.
  • the system may easily be adapted in order to check the time which has effectively been worked by specific operators; furthermore, the system is absolutely not limited to applications as the previously described one, i.e. for checking presences inside of building yards.
  • the system may easily be adapted for carrying out controls and verifications inside of the most differents environments, such as for instance supermarkets, hotels, joinery workshops, small workshops, stores, laboratories, fashion-houses, purchasing centers, banks, saw-mills, transportation firms, firms operating in the field of assemblying and internal or external mantainance, wine cooperative stores, cleaning companies, bakeries, confectioner's shops, or for checking labourer's work etc.

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  1. Système d'enregistrement de temps passé et/ou d'événements se succédant l'un après de l'autre dans le temps, comportant une unité (10), un premier support de données (12), un deuxième support de données (16) et une unité (10) ayant ayu moins un dispositif de lecture (14, 15) pour lire les données enregistrées dans le premier support de données (12), dans lequel le deuxième support de données est constitué par un bloc de mémoire (16) amovible de ladite unité (10) et pouvant être inséré dans une unité centrale pour élaborations ultérieures et pour la présentation des données enregistrées, dans lequel ledit bloc de mémoire (16) comporte une mémoire, tamponnée par une batterie, pour enregistrer lesdites données, un connecteur électrique pour accoupler ledit bloc de mémoire (16) à ladite unité (10), et une intérface (17) pour permettre le branchement dudit bloc de mémoire (16) à une unité centrale, le système comportant de plus un circuit horloge délivrant un signal de temps écoulé, et un circuit électronique pouvant élaborer les données lues dans ledit premier support de données, les associer aux signaux venant dudit circuit horloge, ainsi qu'à les enregistrer dans ledit deuxième support de données (16), caractérisé en ce que ladite unité (10) est entièrement autonome et elle est alimentée par une batterie, et en ce que ledit bloc de mémoire (16) amovible comporte une carte électronique dotée d'une unité centrale d'élaboration, au but de décodifier et d'amplifier les signaux codifiés venant dudit au moins un dispositif de lecture (14, 15), ladite mémoire pour enregistrer lesdites données, tamponnée par ladite batterie, ledit circuit horloge, tamponné par ladite batterie, ledit connecteur électrique pour accoupler ledit bloc de mémoire (16) à ladite unité (10), ainsi que ladite intérface (17) permettant le branchement dudit bloc de mémoire (16) à l'unité centrale.
  2. Système (10) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite unité comporte de plus un dispositif d'affichage des données (18, 19), ainsi qu'un dispositif d'introduction des données (20).
  3. Système selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que ledit dispositif d'affichage (18, 19) est constitué par une paire de diodes électroluminescents (18) ou bien par un afficheur (19).
  4. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ladite unité (10) comporte de plus un dispositif de signalisation acoustique pouvant émettre un signal acoustique indiquant une opération correcte d'enregistrement des données venant dudit premier support (12).
  5. Système (10) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit premier support (12) est constitué par une clef comportant une mémoire EPROM, ou par une carte magnétique, ou bien par un support pour un code opportun, par example un code à barres.
EP94107512A 1993-05-19 1994-05-14 Système de contrÔle et/ou d'enregistrement et/ou d'indication des temps écoulés et/ou des événements successifs dans le temps Expired - Lifetime EP0627708B1 (fr)

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