EP3956874A1

EP3956874A1 - System for managing a plurality of alarmed individual spaces

Info

Publication number: EP3956874A1
Application number: EP19730394.4A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Philippe LANDAUD
Original assignee: Prophiltech
Current assignee: Prophiltech
Priority date: 2019-04-19
Filing date: 2019-04-19
Publication date: 2022-02-23
Anticipated expiration: 2039-04-19
Also published as: CA3137131A1; WO2020212651A1; US20220198912A1; EP3956874B1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system (1) for managing a plurality of alarmed individual spaces (2), comprising: • a set of detection points (4a-4g) associated with the alarms, each detection point (4a-4g) equipping one of the individual spaces (2); • at least one alarm centre (6a-6c) connected to the detection points (6a-6c) of a subset of the set of detection points; • a set of access controllers (8a-8g), each access controller (8a-8g) being configured to identify a user of one of the individual spaces (2). The system (1) also comprises a user centre (10) to which the access controllers are connected (8a-8g); and, for each alarmed individual space (2), a module (12a-12g) for alarm disabling and enabling connected to the user centre (10) and connected between the or one of the alarm centre(s) (6a-6c) and the detection point (4a-4g) equipping said individual space (2), each alarm disabling or enabling module (12a-12g) being configured to selectively disable and enable the detection point (4a-4g) to which it is connected, and to trigger this disabling following an identification of a user by the access controller (8a-8g) associated with said individual space (2).

Description

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL SPACES

UNDER ALARM DESCRIPTION

Technical area

[01] The present invention relates to the field of protection and securing of individual spaces. The invention relates in particular to a system for managing a plurality of individual spaces under alarm. The invention is particularly applicable, without being exclusive or limiting, to the field of space management systems or individual storage or warehousing boxes. Such systems are generally intended for the management of buildings comprising hundreds of spaces or individual storage boxes, each of the spaces or boxes being placed under an individual alarm. The invention is also applicable, without this being exclusive or limiting, to the field of systems for managing individual private safes, or emergency exits, placed under alarm.

[02] The invention also relates to a method for inhibiting the alarm of an individual space under alarm, as well as to a computer program product for the implementation of this method.

State of the art

[03] Centralized management systems for individual spaces are known. Such a centralized management system is for example described in patent document US 2017/0243416 A1. The system described in this document is intended for the management of a building comprising several zones or individual rooms. The individual areas can for example be lockers in a gym, or even individual rooms in a hotel. Each locker or each room is equipped an electronic lock and an access controller allowing the lock to be unlocked by an individual access card. All electronic locks and access controllers are managed centrally, via a dedicated management center. Such a central unit can thus generate and configure access information intended for access cards.

[04] In addition, in the field of the protection of individual spaces such as individual storage spaces under alarm, there is a need to be able to automatically disarm the alarm of one of the individual spaces without disarming the alarms of the individual spaces. other individual spaces managed by the same network. This need is all the more crucial since such individual spaces, such as boxes or chests, are generally allocated by name to the general public and / or to particular businesses, and it is therefore necessary to allow flexible management. and individualized arming and disarming of alarms.

[05] On conventional systems of moderate size, typically of the order of ten individual spaces under alarm to be managed, known solutions make it possible to meet this need by allowing individual and uncorrelated arming and disarming of the alarms. . However, these systems known from the prior art do not allow such management in the case of a greater number of individual spaces to be managed, typically of the order of a hundred or more individual spaces. This limitation results directly from the intrinsic material limitations of such systems, which generally only allow the management of at most eight or even sixteen separate armaments and disarmament. However, in the field of management systems for individual storage or warehousing spaces, the number of individual spaces to be managed typically amounts to around a hundred. Such systems of the prior art then prove to be totally inoperative and ineffective for the management of alarms relating to such a number of individual spaces. Summary of the invention

[06] The aim of the invention is therefore to provide a system for managing a plurality of individual spaces under alarm, allowing flexible, individualized and automatic management of the arming and disarming of each alarm without affecting the other alarms. system, without any structural limitation in terms of the number of alarms that can be managed.

[07] To this end, the invention relates to a system for managing a plurality of individual spaces under alarm, the system comprising:

“A set of detection points associated with alarms, each detection point equipping one of the individual spaces;

• at least one alarm center dedicated to the detection points, the or each alarm center being connected to the detection points of a subset of said set of detection points, for the management of said detection points;

• a set of access controllers, each access controller being associated with one of the individual spaces and being configured to identify a user of said space;

in which the system comprises a user center to which said access controllers are connected; and the system further comprises, for each individual space under alarm, an alarm inhibition and de-inhibition module connected to the user control panel and connected between the one or one of the alarm control panel (s) and the detection point equipping said individual space, each alarm inhibition and disinhibition module being configured to selectively inhibit and uninhibit the detection point to which it is connected, and to trigger the inhibition of said detection point following identification of a user by the access controller associated with said individual space.

[08] Thanks to the combined presence of a user center connected to the various access controllers, and alarm inhibition and de-inhibition modules connected to the user center, alarm centers and alarms. different detection points, the system according to the invention allows flexible and individualized management of the arming and disarming of each alarm without affecting the other alarms of the system. In addition, such a configuration offers the advantage of not structurally limiting the number of alarms assigned to individual spaces and that can be managed by the system. This is particularly advantageous in contexts or areas where a large number of individual spaces under alarm are to be managed, such as for example the area of storage or individual storage spaces, or that of the management of individual private safes. .

[09] Each alarm inhibition and de-inhibition module is further configured to selectively inhibit and disinhibit the detection point to which it is connected, and to trigger the inhibition of this detection point following an identification of a user by the access controller associated with the individual space. This allows, through individual identification of the user via the access controller, to temporarily inhibit the detection point associated with the personal space alarm. Indeed, each detection point is in service permanently, and the user of an individual space can temporarily inhibit the associated detection point, via a personal identification means compatible with the access controller.

[10] According to a first embodiment of the invention, each alarm inhibition and disinhibition module consists of an electrical or electronic circuit.

[11] According to a second embodiment of the invention, each alarm inhibition and de-inhibition module comprises memory means and data processing means connected to the memory means, the memory means storing an application comprising instructions program, the data processing means being configured to execute the program instructions of the application.

[12] To this end, the invention also relates to a method for inhibiting the alarm of an individual space under alarm, implemented by one of the alarm inhibition and de-inhibition modules of the system as described above, the method comprising an initial step of receiving an alarm inhibiting trigger signal from the user center, following an identification of a user by the access controller associated with the individual space corresponding to the module; and a step of inhibiting the detection point to which the module is connected.

[13] Advantageously, during the initial step of receiving an alarm inhibition trigger signal, a predefined timing data accompanies the signal and is transmitted to said alarm inhibition and de-inhibition module by the user center; and the step of inhibiting the detection point to which the module is connected lasts at least the time of the predefined time delay. This allows, at the end of the predefined time delay, an automatic return to service of the detection point associated with the personal space alarm.

[14] According to a particular technical characteristic of the invention, the duration of the predefined time delay is between 0 and 255 minutes.

[15] Advantageously, the method further comprises a step of reception by the module of a confirmation signal for closing the individual space corresponding to the module, which signal comes from the user center; and the method further comprises a step of uninhibiting the detection point to which the module is connected, said uninhibiting step being performed when the predefined time delay has elapsed and the confirmation signal is received. Such a step makes it possible to check that the detection point to which the module is connected is properly closed, before uninhibiting the detection point and thus re-activating the individual space alarm. This increases the reliability and responsiveness of the system.

[16] To this end, the invention also relates to a computer program product recorded on a computer readable medium and / or executable by data processing means, and comprising program instructions suitable for implementing the steps of alarm inhibition method as described above, when the program product is executed on a computer or by the data processing means of one of the alarm inhibition and de-inhibition modules of the system as described above.

Brief description of the figures

[17] The aims, advantages and characteristics of the management system according to the invention will appear better in the following description on the basis of at least one non-limiting embodiment illustrated by the drawings in which:

- Figure 1 is a schematic representation of a system for managing several individual alarmed spaces according to the invention, the system comprising several alarm inhibition and de-inhibition modules; and

- Figure 2 is a schematic representation of one of the alarm inhibition and disinhibition modules, according to a particular embodiment of the invention.

Detailed description of the invention

[18] FIG. 1 represents a system 1 for managing several individual spaces 2 under alarm. In the particular embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1, seven individual spaces 2 are managed by the system 1. Such individual spaces 2 may for example be, without this being limiting in the context of the present invention, spaces individual storage or storage boxes, private individual safes, or emergency exits, placed under alarm. Each user of the system 1 can access, for example via an individual identification means such as an access controller 8a-8g, to one of the individual spaces 2, and only to this space 2.

[19] System 1 comprises a set of detection points 4a-4g, at least one alarm center 6a-6c dedicated to detection points 4a- 4g, a set of access controllers 8a-8g, and a user center 10. The system 1 also comprises, for each individual space under alarm 2, a module 12a-12g for inhibiting and de-inhibiting alarm. Preferably, the system 1 also comprises, for each individual space under alarm 2, a display means 13a-13g of the indicator light type. In the particular embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1, the system 1 comprises seven detection points 4a-4g, three alarm centers 6a-6c, seven access controllers 8a-8g, seven modules 12a-12g of alarm inhibition and de-inhibition, and seven display means 13a-13g.

[20] Each detection point 4a-4g equips one of the individual spaces 2, for placing this space 2 under alarm. Each detection point 4a-4g includes, for example, without this being limiting in the context of the present invention, one or more of the following elements taken alone or in combination: an intrusion detector of the infrared motion detector or glass breakage detector type, a smoke detector, or even a temperature detector.

[21] The or each control panel 6a-6c is connected to the detection points of a subset of the detection point set 4a-4g. For example, in the illustrative example of FIG. 1, a first alarm center 6a is connected to three first detection points 4a-4c, a second alarm center 6b is connected to two other detection points 4d-4e , and a third alarm center 6c is connected to two other detection points 4f-4g. Each 6a-6c control panel is thus dedicated to the management of a subset of 4a-4g detection points. It should be noted that in the case of a system 1 managing a small number of individual spaces 2 under alarm, system 1 has only one alarm center, the latter then being connected to all the points. detection.

[22] Each alarm center 6a-6c is permanently in service, that is to say that the individual space (s) 2 associated with a central alarm 6a-6c are under alarm. In addition to the detection points that it manages, each alarm center 6a-6c can also be connected to external equipment, such as, for example, remote control or keypad type controllers, electrical devices managed by home automation, sirens of alert, communication devices such as telephones or data transmitters, computers, as well as wired or wireless networks such as a local wired network or an Internet network. Such elements, which in no way constitute an exhaustive list, are not shown in the figures for reasons of clarity. Each alarm center 6a-6c is thus configured to receive information from the detection points it manages, as well as from any controllers to manually activate or deactivate an alarm. Each alarm panel 6a-6c is also configured to transmit data to various external devices.

[23] Each access controller 8a-8g is associated with one of the individual spaces 2 and is configured to identify a user of this space 2. Each access controller 8a-8g is connected to the user center 10. Each controller d Access 8a-8g can also be connected to a device for unlocking the individual space 2 with which it is associated, such a device not being shown in the figures for reasons of clarity. Each access controller 8a-8g can for example be an individual smart card reader, or even an individual badge reader by magnetic contact, without this being limiting in the context of the present invention.

[24] The user center 10 manages alarm inhibitions and de-inhibitions for all the detection points 4a-4g. To do this, the user center 10 stores for example a list of correspondence between identifiers associated with access controllers 8a-8g, and identifiers of users authorized to use the individual spaces 2 associated with access controllers. User center 10 is configured furthermore, to generate alarm inhibition triggering signals, and confirmation of closure of an individual space, intended for the alarm inhibition and de-inhibition modules 12a-12g.

[25] Each 12a-12g alarm inhibition and de-inhibition module is connected to the user center 10, and is connected between the detection point

4a-4g equipping the individual space 2 with which it is associated on the one hand, and the alarm control panel 6a-6c dedicated to this detection point on the other hand. Each module 12a-12g is configured to selectively inhibit and uninhibit the detection point 4a-4g to which it is attached. Each module 12a-12g is further configured to trigger the inhibition of its detection point 4a-4g following identification of a user by the access controller 8a-8g associated with the corresponding individual space 2. Each module 12a-12g can also be configured to trigger the uninhibition of its detection point 4a-4g following the expiration of a predefined time delay, which time delay is known to the module 12a-12g following the reception of data from time delay transmitted by the user center 10.

[26] According to a first embodiment shown in Figure 1, each 12a-12g alarm inhibition and uninhibition module consists of an electrical or electronic circuit.

[27] According to a second embodiment shown in Figure 2, each alarm inhibition and de-inhibition module 12a-12g comprises memory means 14 and data processing means 16 connected to memory means 14. The means memory 14 store an application 18 comprising program instructions. The processing means 16 are configured to execute the application 18. The processing means 16 are for example in the form of one or more processors, dedicated to each module 12a-12g or shared between modules 12a-12g. The application 18, when executed by the processing means 16, is able to implement the alarm inhibition method which will be described below. [28] As a variant, the 12a-12g alarm inhibition and disinhibition modules can be implemented directly in the form of functionalities implemented by software components, the latter being implemented on independent infrastructures or sharing a single and same hardware infrastructure. According to this variant, the software components constituting the modules 12a-12g are for example implemented in memory means of one or more server computer (s).

[29] Each indicator light-type display means 13a-13g, which equips one of the individual spaces 2, is connected to one of the alarm inhibition and uninhibition modules 12a-12g. Each inhibition and alarm de-inhibition module 12a-12g is for example configured to trigger the switching on of a display means 13a-13g, typically in the form of a colored light signal, simultaneously with the inhibition. from its detection point 4a-4g. Each alarm inhibition and de-inhibition module 12a-12g is further configured to switch off the corresponding display means 13a-13g, at the end of the expiration of the predefined time delay and after having received a confirmation signal. for closing the associated individual space 2.

[30] In the particular embodiment shown in Figure 1, the data links between the different elements are made in the form of wire links. As a variant, the various data links can naturally be produced in any known manner, such as for example in the form of wireless links of the radio link type.

[31] The method of inhibiting the alarm of an individual space 2 according to the invention, implemented by one of the modules 12a-12g for inhibiting and de-inhibiting the alarm of the management system 1, will now go be described. For convenience of description, it will be assumed hereafter that the module 12a implements the alarm inhibition method according to the invention. It should however be noted that each of the modules 12a-12g is able to implement this alarm inhibition method. [32] It is assumed that initially a user of the individual space 2 associated with the module 12a identifies himself with the access controller 8a corresponding to this space. It is also assumed that, following this identification of the user by the access controller 8a, the user center 10 verifies the conformity of the identity of the user and, if this verification is positive, generates a trigger signal d 'alarm inhibition for this individual space.

[33] The method comprises an initial step during which the module 12a receives the alarm inhibition trigger signal from the user center 10. Preferably, during this initial step, a predefined time delay datum accompanies the signal and is transmitted to the module 12a by the user center 10. The duration of the predefined time delay is typically between 0 and 255 minutes. This duration can be adjustable and pre-configured in the user center 10 for example.

[34] The method comprises a following step during which the module 12a inhibits the detection point 4a to which it is connected, thus causing an inhibition of the associated alarm. The detection point 4a is then inhibited but, from the point of view of the control panel 6a which manages it, this detection point 4a is still in service and operational. Typically, this step of inhibiting detection point 4a and the associated alarm lasts at least the time of the predefined delay. The user of individual space 2 can then access this space during this period, without risking an untimely triggering of the associated alarm. Preferably, simultaneously with the inhibition of its detection point 4a, the module 12a triggers the switching on of a display means 13a, typically in the form of a colored light signal, making it possible to visually notify the user that its space 2 is free to access.

[35] Preferably, at the end of this step of inhibiting the detection point 4a, and therefore at the end of the predefined time delay, the module 12a checks whether it has received from the power plant users 10 a confirmation signal for closing the associated individual space 2. Such a signal is for example transmitted to the user center 10 by the access controller 8a, and makes it possible to check that the individual space 2 is correctly reclosed and therefore the associated detection point 4a. If this verification is positive, the module 12a de-inhibits the detection point 4a as well as the associated alarm. Otherwise, the module 12a waits for the receipt of such a confirmation signal for closing the individual space 2, before uninhibiting the associated detection point 4a. The individual space 2 concerned is then placed under alarm again, and the corresponding detection point 4a is put back into service in a fully automatic manner. Preferably, simultaneously with the disinhibition of its detection point 4a, the module 12a turns off the display means 13a.

[36] It can thus be seen that the management system according to the invention has several advantages, among which:

• the system allows flexible, individualized and automatic management of the arming and disarming of each alarm without affecting the other alarms in the system;

• there is no limitation in terms of the number of detection points that can be managed, and therefore the number of alarms assigned to individual spaces, since the detection points are managed by one or more control panels. alarm ;

• the management of users of individual spaces is facilitated through the presence of a dedicated user center and access controllers connected to the user center;

• the system makes it possible to verify the correct closure of each detection point, and, in the event of incorrect closure of a detection point, to put the associated alarm back into service only after re-closing the detection point;

“The system allows a fully automatic reset of each alarm; • the system allows individual identification of each user of a given individual space either by code or by any other means (badge, iris imprint, etc.).

Claims

1. System (1) for managing a plurality of individual spaces (2) under alarm, the system (1) comprising:

• a set of detection points (4a-4g) associated with the alarms, each detection point (4a-4g) equipping one of the individual spaces (2);

• at least one alarm center (6a-6c) dedicated to the detection points (4a-4g), the or each alarm center (6a-6c) being connected to the detection points (6a-6c) of a subset of said set of detection points, for the management of said detection points (6a-6c);

• a set of access controllers (8a-8g), each access controller (8a-8g) being associated with one of the individual spaces (2) and being configured to identify a user of said space (2);

characterized in that the system (1) comprises a user center (10) to which said access controllers (8a-8g) are connected; and in that it further comprises, for each individual space (2) under alarm, an alarm inhibition and de-inhibition module (12a-12g) connected to the user center (10) and connected between the or a alarm control panel (s) (6a-6c) and the detection point (4a-4g) equipping said individual space (2), each module (12a-12g) of alarm inhibition and de-inhibition being configured to selectively inhibit and uninhibit the detection point (4a-4g) to which it is connected, and to trigger the inhibition of said detection point (4a-4g) following identification of a user by the access controller (8a- 8g) associated with said individual space (2).

2. System (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that each module (12a-12g) inhibition and alarm de-inhibition consists of an electric or electronic circuit.

3. System (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that each module (12a-12g) inhibiting and disabling alarm comprises memory means (14) and data processing means (16) connected to the memory means (14), the memory means (14) storing an application (18) comprising program instructions, the data processing means (16) being configured to execute the program instructions of the application (18).

4. A method of inhibiting the alarm of an individual space (2) under alarm, characterized in that the method is implemented by one of the modules (12a-12g) for inhibiting and de-inhibiting the alarm of the system (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, the method comprising an initial step of receiving an alarm inhibition trigger signal from the user center (10), following an identification of a user by the access controller (8a-8g) associated with the individual space (2) corresponding to the module (12a-12g); and a step of inhibiting the detection point (4a-4g) to which the module (12a-12g) is connected.

5. Method according to claim 4, characterized in that, during the initial step of receiving an alarm inhibition triggering signal, a predefined time delay data accompanies the signal and is transmitted to said module. alarm inhibition and de-inhibition by the user control panel (10), and in that the stage of inhibiting the detection point (4a-4g) to which the module (12a-12g) is connected lasts at least the time of the preset time delay.

6. Method according to claim 5, characterized in that the duration of the predefined delay is between 0 and 255 minutes.

7. Method according to claim 5 or 6, characterized in that the method further comprises a step of receiving by the module (12a-12g) a confirmation signal for closing the individual space (2) corresponding to the module. (12a-12g), which signal comes from the user center (10); and in that the method further comprises a step of uninhibiting the detection point (4a-4g) to which the module (12a-12g) is connected, said uninhibition step being performed when the predefined time delay has elapsed and the signal of confirmation is received.

8. Computer program product (18) recorded on a computer readable medium and / or executable by data processing means (16), and comprising program instructions suitable for implementing the steps of the inhibition method. alarm according to any one of claims 4 to 7, when the program product (18) is executed on a computer or by the data processing means (16) of one of the inhibition modules (12a-12g) and alarm de-inhibition of the system (1) according to claim 3.