Patent ID: 9626818
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: E05F,E06B,G07C,G08B

Claim:
1. A method for enabling fail-safe operation of an automatic pedestrian access control gate during a health and safety event, the method comprising: determining whether a remote monitoring device is being actively monitored based on input from a camera of the remote monitoring device; selecting a preset amount of time from a plurality of time periods based on determining whether the remote monitoring device is being actively monitored; receiving gateline sensor data from at least one gateline sensor, the gateline sensor data indicating that the event concerning health and safety has occurred; generating an alert in response to receiving the gateline sensor data; transmitting the alert to the remote monitoring device, the remote monitoring device being remote from the access control gate; determining that the preset amount of time has elapsed since transmitting the alert; determining that an acknowledgement of the alert has not been received; and triggering a predefined action based on determining that the preset amount of time has elapsed and determining that the acknowledgement has not been received.