EP4576027A1 - Verfahren zur synchronisierten und drahtlosen kommunikation, verriegelungseinheit und befehlseinheit - Google Patents

Verfahren zur synchronisierten und drahtlosen kommunikation, verriegelungseinheit und befehlseinheit Download PDF

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EP4576027A1
EP4576027A1 EP23219237.7A EP23219237A EP4576027A1 EP 4576027 A1 EP4576027 A1 EP 4576027A1 EP 23219237 A EP23219237 A EP 23219237A EP 4576027 A1 EP4576027 A1 EP 4576027A1
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Allan Kaczmarek
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/00174—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys
    • G07C9/00309—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/00174—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys
    • G07C9/00571—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated by interacting with a central unit
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/00174—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys
    • G07C9/00896—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys specially adapted for particular uses
    • G07C9/00912—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys specially adapted for particular uses for safes, strong-rooms, vaults or the like
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/00174—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys
    • G07C9/00309—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
    • G07C2009/00365—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks in combination with a wake-up circuit
    • G07C2009/00373—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks in combination with a wake-up circuit whereby the wake-up circuit is situated in the lock
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/00174—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys
    • G07C2009/00634—Power supply for the lock
    • G07C2009/00642—Power supply for the lock by battery

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  • the present invention relates to a lock unit, and a method for at least one lock unit of a plurality of lock units for receiving commands via synchronised and wireless communication, wherein the plurality of lock units control access to a compartment.
  • the present invention relates to command unit, and a method for broadcasting commands to one, two or more lock units using synchronised and wireless communication.
  • the total cost of sending a parcel or package can be reduced by utilizing parcel lockers, as the last mile is an expensive part of sending a parcel or package.
  • the costs can be reduced using parcel lockers (also known as automated parcel machines - APM), which may be indoor or outdoor parcel lockers.
  • the number of parcel lockers have been increasing with a rapid rate. Furthermore, the number of compartments forming part of the parcel lockers have increased. Presently, some lean lockers are being sold with 32 compartments. Each compartment has a latch controlled by a controller via a wired communication protocol and the latch is typically powered via a power cord irrespective of the entire parcel locker being powered by batteries or an external power source such as the electric grid.
  • An object of the invention is achieved by a computer-implemented method for at least one lock unit of a plurality of lock units receiving commands via synchronised and wireless communication, said plurality of lock units controlling access to respective plurality of compartments, wherein each lock unit of the plurality of lock units has a periodic communication cycle and a unique lock unit ID, wherein each of the periodic communication cycles comprising
  • the method enables one to many communications while enabling the many (lock units) to transmit a wireless respond.
  • wireless communication is less energy efficient compared to wired communication; however the method ensures a low energy consumption by synchronised communication as the commands to and responses from each lock unit can be received and transmitted within a small time period.
  • the communication pause interval constitutes the longest interval of the periodic communication cycle.
  • the communication pause interval is preferably as large as possible and the receiver interval and the response interval are preferably as short as possible.
  • the ratio of the communication pause interval to the periodic communication cycle may be greater than 0.99 such as 0.999 or greater.
  • the total length of the receiver interval and the response interval may be equal to or less than 1 ms.
  • a lock unit will be powered for communication for 3.65 days over a period of 10 years; this is an acceptable period allowing the method to be performed on battery-powered lock units for at least 10 years.
  • the total time for communication is inversely proportional to the sum of the receiver interval and the response interval, hence a 50 % reduction will result in the total time being 1,825 days.
  • the lock unit will always use the response interval to communicate, however, this will rarely be the case depending on the specific use of the plurality of lock units.
  • each lock unit will receive two commands each day and send two responses each day. If the periodic communication cycle is 1 second, then there will only be sent responses during two response intervals out of the 86400 response intervals that day. There may be additional commands and responses to check state of the lock units, but that would not change the seldom use of the response interval.
  • the communication pause interval may be single interval or intervals before and after the receiver interval and the response interval. In some cases, the receiver interval and the response interval will come one after the other, however since each lock unit has a unique response interval then in most cases there will be a communication pause interval between the end of the receiver interval and the start of the response interval and between the end of the response interval and the start of the receiver interval.
  • the periodic communication cycles may be preprogrammed and stored on each lock unit and optionally the periodic communication cycle of the plurality of lock units may be stored on an external server such that any command unit is able to receive information related to the periodic communication cycle of the one or more lock units such that any command unit is able to communicate with said one or more lock units.
  • the command unit may be permanently installed at the plurality of lock units - in some embodiments the command unit may be part of or forms part of a controller of a parcel locker.
  • the permanently installed command unit may be configured to assign individual periodic communication cycles to each of the plurality of lock units; thereby the command unit is in control of the synchronised communication.
  • the antenna of each lock unit may be designed for WLAN communication such as Bluetooth or similar solutions.
  • the command may include one or more instructions linked to one or more unique lock unit IDs, wherein the lock units with matching lock unit IDs will perform an action based on the instructions linked to said lock unit IDs and the other lock units will do nothing.
  • the command may thus contain one or more commands to one or more lock units.
  • the command may have a structure such as [instructions; ID 1];[instructions, ID 5];[instructions, ID X]; .. .;[instructions, ID N].
  • the action may be to check the status of a latch or check the status of an actuator or check a temperature if the lock unit is further equipped with a temperature sensor or check a sensor quantity if the lock unit is further equipped with a sensor measuring a sensor quantity.
  • the listed actions are non-exhaustive.
  • the unique response interval means that there are no overlapping response intervals thereby only a single lock unit responds which improves the quality of the communication with the plurality of lock units.
  • the communication may utilise one or more communication bands of the wireless protocol.
  • the unique response intervals are unique by use of different communication bands such that two response intervals can overlap in time but be in different bands such that the communication does not overlap.
  • the command may include instructions causing at least one lock unit to perform an unlock action, thereby allowing access to a compartment.
  • the plurality of lock units will feel more unresponsive as the periodic communication cycle increases, thus there is a trade-off between total energy and responsiveness.
  • the periodic communication cycle changes as a function of the time of day and/or day of the week. In most cases, there will be a low collection rate during the night and certain hours during the day; during these periods the periodic communication cycle can be increased such that energy consumption is lowered.
  • the lock unit 10 is configured to communicate wirelessly with a command unit 90 (not shown) in accordance with a periodic communication cycle 40.
  • the periodic communication cycle 20 comprises

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