Patent ID: 9704313
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G07C

Claim:
1. A method for commissioning and/or configuring an access control device using a physical token and a separate portable computing device at a site of the access control device, the method including the access control device performing the steps of: (a) receiving data indicative of a physical local interaction with the access control device, wherein the physical local interaction with the access control device is defined by the presentation of the physical token; (b) responsive to the data received at (a), selectively enabling a wireless communications protocol of the access control device such that the access control device can temporarily communicate with the portable computing device; (c) accepting commissioning and/or configuration information via the wireless communications protocol from the portable computing device; and (d) after accepting commissioning and/or configuration information from the portable computing device at (c), disabling the wireless communications protocol of the access control device such that the access control device can no longer communicate with the portable computing device.