EP0147284B1 - Operating and controlling systems for a plurality of accesses equipped with coded locks - Google Patents

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EP0147284B1
EP0147284B1 EP84402540A EP84402540A EP0147284B1 EP 0147284 B1 EP0147284 B1 EP 0147284B1 EP 84402540 A EP84402540 A EP 84402540A EP 84402540 A EP84402540 A EP 84402540A EP 0147284 B1 EP0147284 B1 EP 0147284B1
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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
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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
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    • G07C9/00658—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated by passive electrical keys
    • G07C9/00722—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated by passive electrical keys with magnetic components, e.g. magnets, magnetic strips, metallic inserts
    • 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
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    • G07C9/00174—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys
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    • G07C9/00904—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 hotels, motels, office buildings or the like
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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
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  • the invention relates to installations for command and control of the different coded locks of an assembly comprising a relatively large number of such locks, this number preferably being greater than 50 and even more than 100.
  • each coded lock is autonomous in the sense that it is not connected to any central command or control member and that it is directly provided with the memory and comparison devices necessary to ensure on-site decoding and unlocking upon reception of the appropriate coded cards.
  • a central monitoring and management computer connected by wires to each lock and on the other hand reading and transmission means associated with each lock and making it possible for the operator to know at all times the computer the state of said lock as well as the code of the card possibly presented to this lock at said instant.
  • the locking of the lock is remote-controlled from the computer when the comparison executed at the level of the latter reveals the identity between said code and a specific reference code of the lock considered and previously recorded in the computer. .
  • the object of the invention is, above all, to propose a partially “decentralized” installation for command and control of multiple coded locks which overcomes both the drawbacks mentioned above of the two known formulas.
  • the invention includes, apart from these main provisions, certain other provisions which are preferably used at the same time and which will be more explicitly discussed below.
  • the single figure of this drawing schematically shows an installation for monitoring and controlling coded locks fitted to the doors of rooms in a hotel, said installation being partially “decentralized” in accordance with the invention.
  • Each of these doors comprises an operating button 1 and a coded lock 2, in particular of the electronic type, capable of being controlled by each introduction, into a slot 3, of a magnetic card 4 coded in correspondence.
  • the lock 2 has a certain degree of autonomy in the sense that it is arranged so as to be able to operate itself for the purposes of unlocking the introductions of the type indicated in the slot 3.
  • it includes a memory allowing the recording of predetermined reference codes, means making it possible to compare with these reference codes the code characterizing each coded card inserted in the slot and unlocking means actuated automatically as soon as said comparison reveals a identity between the two codes compared.
  • the lock 2 is also associated with means making it possible to develop and save at least temporarily a certain number of information.
  • This information is first of all that relating to the instantaneous state, locked or not, of the lock and the instantaneous state, closed or not, of the door as well as that relating to the recent history of the lock and to that of the door, that is to say at the instants of the few openings and closings of this door which preceded each given instant.
  • the information in question may also be identification numbers of the customers empowered successively to open the door and identification numbers of the service personnel also authorized for this purpose, the numbers in question being carried by the cards 4 used by the different people authorized to control the unlocking of the lock.
  • central computer 5 connected to the different locks 2 by electrical wires 6, 6i, 62 ..., 6io, 611 ..., 620, 621, 622 ...
  • This computer 5 is equipped with means for entering data shown diagrammatically by a key keyboard 7, display means shown diagrammatically by a video screen 8 and recording means not shown.
  • Each magnetic code reported on a card newly authorized to order a given lock has a cancellation prefix.
  • This prefix and the operating means of the cards 4 associated with each lock 2 are such that the simple introduction of the aforesaid card into the slot 3 of said lock automatically invalidates the code of the card previously authorized for controlling the same lock.
  • the computer 5 is also associated with means suitable for clearly displaying and / or recording the various information received by wire from the locks 2.
  • This latter information does not arrive in bulk at the computer, but only in response to selective interrogations thereof, suitable means being provided for selectively interrogating the various locks from the computer and possibly for collecting a type of information. given on a given lock or on a given group of locks.
  • the recording in question of said information can be carried out automatically and in plain text by a printer which is advantageously locked in a safe 10 away from falsifications and / or indiscretions.
  • the computer 5 is arranged in such a way that it is possible to invalidate at will from it any of the locks of the installation by sending selectively by wire to this lock an electrical signal d 'invalidation.
  • the codes for unlocking the locks never pass through the connecting wire in one direction or the other, which makes it impossible to intercept them by connecting a sensor to one of these wires.
  • each lock 2 can be arranged so as to lend itself to the local reading of the information produced by it on its own history, said reading being carried out using appropriate portable reading modules (not shown) equipped with means display and / or recording and connected in any desirable manner to said locks.
  • the locks equipping the different doors of the hotel can be divided into several groups, the number of n, corresponding for example respectively to the different floors of the hotel.
  • each of these groups of order i (i being an integer between 0 and n) can then be connected, by the wires 6 i , 6 i0 , 6 i1 ..., to a “concentrator” device 11 ; assigned to said group, each of these concentrators 11, being itself connected to the computer 5 by a wire 6 or by a wire constituting the bundle 6 if the "thread 6" is constituted by such a bundle.
  • Such an apparatus which is in the form of a box with a slot 13 for receiving cards 4, is connected to the network of wires 6 and the like and includes means for "swallowing" said cards just after the start of their introduction.
  • this slot 13 means for reading the indications carried by these cards, control means slaved to the readings thus carried out and suitable for automatically suppressing the validation of locks which previously corresponded to the codes read on said swallowed cards and means for automatically recording in the central equipment 5 of the information relating to the reception of cards in question and in particular to the instants of these reception.
  • Such devices 12 can be placed at locations away from the reception of the hotel, for example at the exit from this hotel, or at the entrance to its garage or parking lot.
  • the regular customer of the hotel in question can leave this hotel without having to go to the reception, which is particularly valuable when the number of customers wishing to leave the hotel at the same time is high and, as a result, the personnel in charge of preparing and collecting hotel bills is temporarily overwhelmed: in such a case, in fact, the contact details of the client in question are automatically recorded in the central equipment 5, at the same time as the sums due by this client at the hotel for the possession of a coded card and therefore for the disposal of the room allocated to this card and the recovery of these sums can therefore be carried out in any desirable manner, in particular by direct debit from an account or by post .
  • Such automatic double processing of cards 4 which have completed their mission can also be triggered from the hotel reception by inserting said cards into an appropriate slot 14 in the central equipment 5 , slot associated with means identical to those previously defined.

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L'invention concerne les installations de commande et de contrôle des différentes serrures codées d'un ensemble comportant un nombre relativement élevé de telles serrures, ce nombre étant de préférence supérieur à 50 et même à 100.The invention relates to installations for command and control of the different coded locks of an assembly comprising a relatively large number of such locks, this number preferably being greater than 50 and even more than 100.

Elle concerne plus particulièrement, parce que c'est dans leur cas que son application semble devoir offrir le plus d'intérêt, mais non exclusivement, parmi ces installations, celles équipant les hôtels comprenant un grand nombre de chambres, chacune de ces chambres étant accessible par une porte équipée d'une serrure codée, laquelle serrure est com- mandable électriquement à l'aide d'une clé codée en correspondance.It relates more particularly, because it is in their case that its application seems to offer the most interest, but not exclusively, among these installations, those equipping hotels comprising a large number of rooms, each of these rooms being accessible by a door fitted with a coded lock, which lock can be controlled electrically using a corresponding coded key.

Le mode de réalisation préféré d'une telle clé codée étant une carte magnétique, le mot «carte» sera adopté dans la suite pour désigner ladite clé, mais bien entendu à titre purement illustratif et non limitatif.The preferred embodiment of such a coded key being a magnetic card, the word "card" will be adopted in the following to designate said key, but of course purely for illustrative and not limiting.

Les installations connues du genre en question peuvent être regroupées en deux catégories A et B, l'une A de type «autonome» et l'autre B detype «centralisé».Known installations of the genre in question can be grouped into two categories A and B, one A of the "autonomous" type and the other B of the "centralized" type.

Dans les installations de la première catégorie A, connues par exemple par les documents US 3 860 911 et US 3 906 447, chaque serrure codée est autonome en ce sens qu'elle n'est reliée à aucun organe central de commande ou de contrôle et qu'elle est directement munie des organes de mémoire et de comparaison nécessaires pour assurer sur place le décodage et le déverrouillage lors de la réception des cartes codées appropriées.In installations of the first category A, known for example from documents US 3,860,911 and US 3,906,447, each coded lock is autonomous in the sense that it is not connected to any central command or control member and that it is directly provided with the memory and comparison devices necessary to ensure on-site decoding and unlocking upon reception of the appropriate coded cards.

Ces installations présentent plusieurs avantages:

  • - elles sont relativement fiables en ce sens que seul le porteur d'une carte codée affectée à une serrure donnée peut commander cette serrure,
  • - si une panne se produit sur l'un des composants matériels utilisés, cette panne demeure localisée et limitée à la serrure concernée: elle laisse intactes toutes les commandes des autres serrures de l'installation.
These installations have several advantages:
  • - they are relatively reliable in the sense that only the holder of a coded card assigned to a given lock can control this lock,
  • - if a breakdown occurs on one of the hardware components used, this breakdown remains localized and limited to the lock concerned: it leaves intact all the controls for the other locks in the installation.

Mais lesdites installations de la catégorie A présentent aussi des inconvénients, et en particulier les deux suivants qui peuvent se révéler sérieux lorsque le nombre des serrures de l'installation considérée est très élevé et/ou que leur accès est difficile:

  • - l'état ouvert ou fermé et verrouillé ou non de chaque porte ne peut être connu qu'en se rendant sur place,
  • - il n'est pas possible d'invalider à distance les serrures considérées, par exemple à partir de la réception de l'hôtel pour l'application préférée signalée ci-dessus.
However, said installations in category A also have drawbacks, and in particular the following two which can prove serious when the number of locks in the installation in question is very high and / or when their access is difficult:
  • - the open or closed state and locked or not of each door can only be known by going to the site,
  • - it is not possible to remotely invalidate the locks in question, for example from the hotel reception for the preferred application indicated above.

Les installations «centralisées» de la catégorie B, connues par exemple par les documents US 3 622 991, US 3 842 629 et US 3 889 501, sont plus sophistiquées que les précédentes.The "centralized" installations of category B, known for example from the documents US 3,622,991, US 3,842,629 and US 3,889,501, are more sophisticated than the preceding ones.

Elles comprennent d'une part un ordinateur central de surveillance et de gestion relié par des fils à chaque serrure et d'autre part des moyens de lecture et de transmission associés à chaque serrure et permettant de faire connaître à chaque instant à l'opérateur de l'ordinateur l'état de ladite serrure ainsi que le code de la carte éventuellement présentée à cette serrure audit instant.They comprise on the one hand a central monitoring and management computer connected by wires to each lock and on the other hand reading and transmission means associated with each lock and making it possible for the operator to know at all times the computer the state of said lock as well as the code of the card possibly presented to this lock at said instant.

Dans ce cas, le verrouillage de la serrure est télécommandé à partir de l'ordinateur lorsque la comparaison exécutée au niveau de ce dernier révèle l'identité entre ledit code et un code de référence spécifique de la serrure considérée et préalablement enregistré dans l'ordinateur.In this case, the locking of the lock is remote-controlled from the computer when the comparison executed at the level of the latter reveals the identity between said code and a specific reference code of the lock considered and previously recorded in the computer. .

Les avantages de cette formule résident en ce que l'opérateur de l'ordinateur est informé à chaque instant de l'état de toutes les serrures et en ce qu'il est en mesure d'invalider à tout instant chacune de ces serrures à distance, c'est-à-dire sans être obligé de se rendre sur place.The advantages of this formula lie in that the computer operator is informed at all times of the state of all the locks and in that he is able to invalidate each of these locks at any time remotely , that is to say without being obliged to go there.

Mais ladite formule présente également plusieurs inconvénients:

  • - une panne de l'ordinateur peut bloquer la totalité de l'installation,
  • - l'installation peut égalemnent être mise hors service, au moins localement, par de simples ruptures, volontaires ou non, des fils électriques reliant l'ordinateur aux différentes serrures,
  • - et sourtout les signaux transmis sur les fils de liaison en question et correspondant aux codes de déverrouillage des différentes serrures peuvent être facilement interceptés par branchements de capteurs sur ces fils.
However, said formula also has several drawbacks:
  • - a computer failure can block the entire installation,
  • - the installation can also be put out of service, at least locally, by simple breaks, voluntary or not, electric wires connecting the computer to the different locks,
  • - And above all the signals transmitted on the connecting wires in question and corresponding to the unlocking codes of the different locks can be easily intercepted by connecting sensors to these wires.

L'invention a pour but, surtout, de proposer une installation partiellement «décentralisée» de commande et de contrôle de serrures codées multiples qui remédie à la fois aux inconvénients rappelés ci-dessus des deux formules connues.The object of the invention is, above all, to propose a partially “decentralized” installation for command and control of multiple coded locks which overcomes both the drawbacks mentioned above of the two known formulas.

A cet effet, les installations du genre en question selon l'invention sont essentiellement caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprennent:

  • - d'une part un équipement décentralisé associé à chaque serrure, comportant des moyens pour déverrouiller la serrure sur présentation à celle-ci d'une carte codée appropriée et des moyens pour élaborer un certain nombre d'informations sur l'histoire et l'état de la serrure,
  • - et d'autre part un équipement central relié par des fils à chaque serrure et comportant des moyens propres à émettre les cartes codées de commande des différentes serrures, des moyens propres à afficher et/ou à enregistrer sur demande les informations locales élaborées au niveau des différentes serrures et des moyens pour invalider chaque serrure à distance.
To this end, the installations of the type in question according to the invention are essentially characterized in that they comprise:
  • - on the one hand, decentralized equipment associated with each lock, comprising means for unlocking the lock on presentation to the latter of an appropriate coded card and means for developing a certain amount of information on the history and the state of the lock,
  • - And on the other hand, central equipment connected by wires to each lock and comprising means suitable for issuing coded control cards for the various locks, means suitable for displaying and / or recording on request the local information produced at the level different locks and means for invalidating each lock remotely.

Dans des modes de réalisation préférés, on a recours en outre à l'une et/ou à l'autre des disposi- tions suivantes:

  • - on prévoit des modules de lecture portatifs permettant de lire sur place les informations élaborées par les équipements décentralisés des différentes serrures, lesquels équipements sont alors agencés de façon à livrer lesdites informations auxdits modules,
  • - les serrures de l'installation sont rassemblées en groupes distincts, et les informations élaborées par les différentes serrures de chaque groupe sont rassemblées dans un même relais «concentrateur» spécifique de ce groupe , d'où elles sont acheminées vers l'équipement central sur une interrogation par ce dernier.
In preferred embodiments, recourse is further had to one and / or other of the following OSi say p tions:
  • portable reading modules are provided making it possible to read on the spot the information produced by the decentralized equipment of the various locks, which equipment is then arranged so as to deliver said information to said modules,
  • - the locks of the installation are gathered in distinct groups, and the information elaborated by the different locks of each group are gathered in the same "concentrator" relay specific to this group, from where they are routed to the central equipment on an interrogation by the latter.

L'invention comprend, mises à part ces dispositions principales, certaines autres dispositions qui s'utilisent de préférence en même temps et dont il sera plus explicitement question ci-après.The invention includes, apart from these main provisions, certain other provisions which are preferably used at the same time and which will be more explicitly discussed below.

Dans ce qui suit, l'on va décrire un mode de réalisation préféré de l'invention en se référant au dessin ci- annexé d'une manière bien entendu non limitative.In what follows, a preferred embodiment of the invention will be described with reference to the attached drawing, of course in a non-limiting manner.

La figure unique, de ce dessin, montre de façon schématique une installation de contrôle et de commande des serrures codées équipant les portes des chambres d'un hôtel, ladite installation étant partiellement «décentralisée» conformément à l'invention.The single figure of this drawing schematically shows an installation for monitoring and controlling coded locks fitted to the doors of rooms in a hotel, said installation being partially "decentralized" in accordance with the invention.

Les portes en question, dont le nombre est élevé et par exemple égal à plusieurs centaines, sont représentées sur le dessin par quelques-unes d'entre elles, schématisées en P10, P11 ... P20, P21, P22 ...The doors in question, the number of which is high and for example equal to several hundred, are represented in the drawing by some of them, shown diagrammatically in P 10 , P 11 ... P 20 , P 21 , P 22 ...

Chacune de ces portes comprend un bouton de manoeuvre 1 et une serrure codée 2, notamment de type électronique, susceptibles d'être commandée par chaque introduction, dans une fente 3, d'une carte magnétique 4 codée en correspondance.Each of these doors comprises an operating button 1 and a coded lock 2, in particular of the electronic type, capable of being controlled by each introduction, into a slot 3, of a magnetic card 4 coded in correspondence.

La serrure 2 présente un certain degré d'autonomie en ce sens qu'elle est agencée de façon à pouvoir exploiter elle-même aux fins de déverrouillage les introductions du type indiqué dans la fente 3.The lock 2 has a certain degree of autonomy in the sense that it is arranged so as to be able to operate itself for the purposes of unlocking the introductions of the type indicated in the slot 3.

A cet effet elle comprend une mémoire permettant l'enregistrement de codes de référence prédéterminés, des moyens permettant de comparer à ces codes de référence le code caractérisant chaque carte codée introduite dans la fente et des moyens de déverrouillage actionnés automatiquement dès que ladite comparaison révèle une identité entre les deux codes comparés.To this end, it includes a memory allowing the recording of predetermined reference codes, means making it possible to compare with these reference codes the code characterizing each coded card inserted in the slot and unlocking means actuated automatically as soon as said comparison reveals a identity between the two codes compared.

La serrure 2 est en outre associée à des moyens permettant d'élaborer et d'enregistrer au moins provisoirement un certain nombre d'informations.The lock 2 is also associated with means making it possible to develop and save at least temporarily a certain number of information.

Ces informations sont d'abord celles relatives à l'état instantané, verrouillé ou non, de la serrure et à l'état instantané, fermé ou non, de la porte ainsi que celles relative à l'histoire récente de la serrure et à celle de la porte, c'est-à-dire aux instants des quelques ouvertures et fermetures de cette porte qui ont précédé chaque instant donné.This information is first of all that relating to the instantaneous state, locked or not, of the lock and the instantaneous state, closed or not, of the door as well as that relating to the recent history of the lock and to that of the door, that is to say at the instants of the few openings and closings of this door which preceded each given instant.

Les informations en question peuvent également être des numéros d'identification des clients habilités succesivement à ouvrir la porte et des numéros d'identification des personnels de service également habilités à cet effet, les numéros en question étant portés par les cartes 4 qu'utilisent les différentes personnes habilitées pour commander les déverrouillages de la serrure.The information in question may also be identification numbers of the customers empowered successively to open the door and identification numbers of the service personnel also authorized for this purpose, the numbers in question being carried by the cards 4 used by the different people authorized to control the unlocking of the lock.

On prévoit en outre un ordinateur central 5 relié aux différentes serrures 2 par des fils électriques 6, 6i, 62 ... , 6io, 611 ... , 620, 621, 622 ...There is also a central computer 5 connected to the different locks 2 by electrical wires 6, 6i, 62 ..., 6io, 611 ..., 620, 621, 622 ...

Cet ordinateur 5 est équipé de moyens d'introduction de données schématisés par un clavier à touches 7, des moyens d'affichage schématisés par un écran vidéo 8 et des moyens d'enregistrement non représentés.This computer 5 is equipped with means for entering data shown diagrammatically by a key keyboard 7, display means shown diagrammatically by a video screen 8 and recording means not shown.

Il est associé à un organe 9 propre à émettre les cartes codées 4 habilitées à commander successivement les différentes serrures 2.It is associated with a member 9 capable of issuing the coded cards 4 empowered to successively control the different locks 2.

Chaque code magnétique rapporté sur une carte nouvellement habilitée à la commande d'une serrure donnée présente un préfixe d'annulation.Each magnetic code reported on a card newly authorized to order a given lock has a cancellation prefix.

Ce préfixe et les moyens d'exploitation des cartes 4 associés à chaque serrure 2 sont tels que la simple introduction de la susdite carte dans la fente 3 de ladite serrure invalide automatiquement le code de la carte précédemment habilitée à la commande de la même serrure.This prefix and the operating means of the cards 4 associated with each lock 2 are such that the simple introduction of the aforesaid card into the slot 3 of said lock automatically invalidates the code of the card previously authorized for controlling the same lock.

L'ordinateur 5 est en outre associé à des moyens propres à afficher en clair et/ou à enregistrer les différentes informations reçues par fil des serrures 2.The computer 5 is also associated with means suitable for clearly displaying and / or recording the various information received by wire from the locks 2.

Ces dernières informations ne parviennent pas en vrac à l'ordinateur, mais uniquement en réponse à des interrogations sélectives de celui-ci, des moyens appropriés étant prévus pour interroger sélectivement les différentes serrures depuis l'ordinateur et éventuellement pour recueillir un type d'information donné sur une serrure donnée ou sur un groupe donné de serrures.This latter information does not arrive in bulk at the computer, but only in response to selective interrogations thereof, suitable means being provided for selectively interrogating the various locks from the computer and possibly for collecting a type of information. given on a given lock or on a given group of locks.

L'enregistrement en question desdites informations peut être effectué automatiquement et en clair par une imprimante qui est avantageusement enfermée dans un coffre 10 à l'abri des falsifications et/ou des indiscrétions.The recording in question of said information can be carried out automatically and in plain text by a printer which is advantageously locked in a safe 10 away from falsifications and / or indiscretions.

En outre, l'ordinateur 5 est agencé de façon telle qu'il soit possible d'invalider à volonté à partir de celui-ci n'importe laquelle des serrures de l'installation en envoyant sélectivement par fil à cette serrure un signal électrique d'invalidation.In addition, the computer 5 is arranged in such a way that it is possible to invalidate at will from it any of the locks of the installation by sending selectively by wire to this lock an electrical signal d 'invalidation.

L'installation partiellement «décentralisée» ainsi décrite réunit harmonieusement les avantages des deux formules antérieurement connues de type «autonome» et de type «centralysé» qui ont été rappelées en préambule.The partially “decentralized” installation thus described harmoniously combines the advantages of the two previously known formulas of the “autonomous” type and of the “centralized” type which have been mentioned in the preamble.

C'est ainsi que tous les avantages de la formule centralisée (catégorie B ci-dessus) - et notamment la possibilité de connaître à chaque instant à la réception de l'hôtel les états de toutes les serrures ainsi que la possibilité d'invalider à chaque instant toute serrure désirable à partir de cette réception - sont conservés tant qu'aucune panne n'affecte l'ordinateur, son environnement et/ou les fils de liaison.This is how all the advantages of the centralized formula (category B above) - and in particular the possibility of knowing at all times at the reception of the hotel the states of all the locks as well as the possibility of invalidating at at any time any desirable lock from this reception - are retained as long as no failure affects the computer, its environment and / or the connecting wires.

Au contraire, les inconvénients de cette formule centralisée sont tous pratiquement écartés.On the contrary, the disadvantages of this centralized formula are all practically eliminated.

En particulier, les codes de déverrouillage des serrures ne transitent jamais par le fils de liaison ni dans un sens ni dans l'autre, ce qui rend impossible leur interception par branchement d'un capteur sur l'un de ces fils.In particular, the codes for unlocking the locks never pass through the connecting wire in one direction or the other, which makes it impossible to intercept them by connecting a sensor to one of these wires.

C'est là un avantage capital de l'invention.This is a major advantage of the invention.

En outre, lors de pannes affectant l'ordinateur, son environnement et/ou l'un des fils de liaison, l'ensemble de l'installation continue à pouvoir fonctionner normalement du fait que chaque des serrures peut être déverrouillée localement par présentation à celles-ci des cartes codées appropriées.In addition, during failures affecting the computer, its environment and / or one of the connecting wires, the entire installation continues to be able to function normally because each of the locks can be unlocked locally by presentation to those - appropriate coded cards.

Ce dernier avantage est précisément l'avantage spécifique essentiel de la formule autonome (catégorie A ci-dessus).This last advantage is precisely the essential specific advantage of the autonomous formula (category A above).

En d'autres termes, la nouvelle formule ici proposée, partiellement «décentralisée», présente en fonctionnement normal la totalité des avantages des deux formules autonome et centralisée antérieurement connues.In other words, the new formula proposed here, partially "decentralized", presents in normal operation all the advantages of the two autonomous and centralized formulas previously known.

Elle n'y ajoute aucun inconvénient notable et la survenance éventuelle de pannes a uniquement pour effet de priver l'installation de certains au moins des avantages spécifiques de la formule centralisée, et ce uniquement pendant la durée desdites pannes.It does not add any noticeable disadvantage to it and the possible occurrence of breakdowns only has the effect of depriving the installation of some at least specific advantages of the centralized formula, and only during the duration of said breakdowns.

Un certain nombre de perfectionnements peuvent être apportés à l'installation ci-dessus décrite et en particulier les suivants.A number of improvements can be made to the installation described above and in particular the following.

En premier lieu, chaque serrure 2 peut être agencée de façon à se prêter à la lecture locale des informations élaborées par elle sur sa propre histoire, ladite lecture étant effectuée à l'aide de modules de lecture portatifs appropriés (non représentés) équipés de moyens d'affichage et/ou d'enregistrement et branchés de toute manière désirable sur lesdites serrures.Firstly, each lock 2 can be arranged so as to lend itself to the local reading of the information produced by it on its own history, said reading being carried out using appropriate portable reading modules (not shown) equipped with means display and / or recording and connected in any desirable manner to said locks.

En second lieu, les serrures équipant les différentes portes de l'hôtel peuvent être réparties en plusieurs groupes, au nombre de n, correspondant par exemple respectivement aux différents étages de l'hôtel.Secondly, the locks equipping the different doors of the hotel can be divided into several groups, the number of n, corresponding for example respectively to the different floors of the hotel.

Les serrures de chacun de ces groupes, d'ordre i (i étant un entier compris entre 0 et n) peuvent être alors connectées, par les fils 6i, 6i0, 6i1 ..., à un dispositif «concentrateur» 11; affecté audit groupe, chacun de ces concentrateurs 11, étant lui-même connecté à l'ordinateur 5 par un fil 6 ou par un fil constitutif du faisceau 6 si le «fil 6» est constitué par un tel faisceau.The locks of each of these groups, of order i (i being an integer between 0 and n) can then be connected, by the wires 6 i , 6 i0 , 6 i1 ..., to a “concentrator” device 11 ; assigned to said group, each of these concentrators 11, being itself connected to the computer 5 by a wire 6 or by a wire constituting the bundle 6 if the "thread 6" is constituted by such a bundle.

En troisième lieu, l'installation considérée se prête parfaitement à l'exploitation d'appareils récepteurs de cartes adaptés aux «départs rapides» de clients («express chack-out»), tel que celui schématisé en 12.Thirdly, the installation in question lends itself perfectly to the operation of card-receiving devices adapted to “fast departures” of customers (“express chack-out”), such as that shown in 12.

Un tel appareil, qui se présente sous la forme d'un boîtier avec une fente 13 de réception des cartes 4, est connecté au réseau de fils 6 et autres et comporte des moyens pour «avaler» lesdites cartes juste après le début de leur introduction dans cette fente 13, des moyens de lecture des indications portées par ces cartes, des moyens de commande asservis aux lectures ainsi effectuées et propres à supprimer automatiquement les validations de serrures qui correspondaient précédemment aux codes lus sur lesdites cartes avalées et des moyens pour enregistrer automatiquement dans l'équipement central 5 des informations relatives aux réceptions de cartes en question et en particulier aux instants de ces réceptions.Such an apparatus, which is in the form of a box with a slot 13 for receiving cards 4, is connected to the network of wires 6 and the like and includes means for "swallowing" said cards just after the start of their introduction. in this slot 13, means for reading the indications carried by these cards, control means slaved to the readings thus carried out and suitable for automatically suppressing the validation of locks which previously corresponded to the codes read on said swallowed cards and means for automatically recording in the central equipment 5 of the information relating to the reception of cards in question and in particular to the instants of these reception.

On peut placer de tels appareils 12 en des lieux élo- gnés de la réception de l'hôtel, par exemple à la sortie de cet hôtel, ou à l'entrée de son garage ou de son parc de stationnement.Such devices 12 can be placed at locations away from the reception of the hotel, for example at the exit from this hotel, or at the entrance to its garage or parking lot.

Ainsi le client habitué de l'hôtel considéré peut quitter cet hôtel sans être obligé de passer à la réception, ce qui est particulièrement précieux lorsque le nombre de clients désireux de quitter l'hôtel au même instant est élevé et que, par suite, le personnel préposé à la préparation et à l'éncaissement des notes d'hôtel est momentanément débordé: dans un tel cas en effet les cordonnées du client considéré sont automatiquement enregistrées dans l'équipement central 5, en même temps que les sommes dues par ce client à l'hôtel pour la détention d'une carte codée et donc pour la disposition de la chambre affectée à cette carte et le recouvrement de ces sommes peut être dès lors effectué de toute façon désirable, notamment par prélèvement sur un compte ou par envoi postal.Thus, the regular customer of the hotel in question can leave this hotel without having to go to the reception, which is particularly valuable when the number of customers wishing to leave the hotel at the same time is high and, as a result, the personnel in charge of preparing and collecting hotel bills is temporarily overwhelmed: in such a case, in fact, the contact details of the client in question are automatically recorded in the central equipment 5, at the same time as the sums due by this client at the hotel for the possession of a coded card and therefore for the disposal of the room allocated to this card and the recovery of these sums can therefore be carried out in any desirable manner, in particular by direct debit from an account or by post .

Un tel double traitement automatique des cartes 4 qui ont achevé leur mission (invalidation de la serrure affectée et facturation) peut aussi être déclenché à partir de la réception de l'hôtel en introduisant lesdites cartes dans une fente appropriée 14 de l'équipement central 5, fente associée à des moyens identiques à ceux précédemment définis.Such automatic double processing of cards 4 which have completed their mission (invalidation of the affected lock and invoicing) can also be triggered from the hotel reception by inserting said cards into an appropriate slot 14 in the central equipment 5 , slot associated with means identical to those previously defined.

En suite de quoi, et quel que soit le mode de réalisation adopté, on obtient finalement une installation de commande et de contrôle de serrures codées multiples dont la constitution et les avantages résultent suffisamment de ce qui précède.As a result of which, and whatever the embodiment adopted, one finally obtains an installation for command and control of multiple coded locks whose constitution and advantages result sufficiently from the above.

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1. Installation for controlling and checking the different coded locks of a set of locks, comprising on the one hand a decentralized equipment associated with each lock (2), which equipment itself comprises first means for unlocking the lock on simple presentation thereto of a correspondingly coded key (4) carried by an authorized person, said first means comprising means for recording reference codes, means for comparing to said codes the ones carried by the control keys and means for automatically unlocking the lock when said comparison reveals an identity between the both compared codes, and second means for elaborating some information concerning the history and state of this lock and on the other hand a central equipment (5) connected by wire (6, 61.... 610, ...) to each lock, this equipment comprising means (7) adapted for issuing the coded keys controlling the different locks, means (8, 9) adapted for displaying and/or recording on request the local information elaborated at the different locks and received by wire from these and means for remotely invalidating each lock by wire.
2. Installation according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises portable readout modules for reading on the spot the information elaborated by the decentralized equipment of the different locks (2), which equipment is then adapted so as to deliver said information to said modules.
3. Installation according to any one of the claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the locks (2) are grouped together in separate groups, and the information elaborated by the different locks of each group is gathered together in a same specific «concentrator» relay (111, 112...) of this group, from where it is fed to the central equipment (5) on interrogation by this latter.
4. Installation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises at least one apparatus (12, 13, 14) adapted for receiving the coded keys (4) at the end of use, which apparatus is associated with means for automatically suppressing the validations of locks corresponding to there keys.
5. Installation according to claim 4, characterized in that it further comprises means for automatically recording in the central equipment (5), on reception of each coded key (4) by the apparatus (12, 13, 14), information relative to this reception and in particular to the time of said reception.
6. Application of the installation according to any one of the preceding claims, to the checking and control of the locks (2) fitted to the doors of the rooms of an hotel.
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