A safety switch for controlling the access to industrial machines comprises a switching device having switching means, an actuator device (3) to interact with the switching means at the opening/closing of the access for passing from a removed condition to an inserted condition, locking/unlocking means adapted to lock the actuator device on the switching device following their mutual interaction, an electronic control unit having a first communication channel with a first inlet and a first outlet and a second communication channel with a second inlet and a second outlet, wherein said first inlet and said second outlet are of safe type and adapted to vary their state after detecting the condition of said actuator device and wherein said electronic control unit is adapted to vary the state of said first outlet and said second outlet upon detection respectively of a first and a of second condition for said actuator device.

Disclosed is a method of managing a smart card configured for securing a transaction with an external device via a card reader, the method including the following steps: incrementing at least one command counter of commands received by the smart card during a transaction; and depending on the current value of the at least one counter and a command profile, implementation of a smart card management command.

A method of a digital identity system generating a sharing token for authenticating a bearer to a validator, wherein a data store of the digital identity system holds a plurality of attributes of the bearer, the method comprising implementing by the digital identity system the following steps: receiving at the digital identity system from a bearer an electronic sharing token request, wherein the token request identifies at least one of the bearer's attributes in the data store selected for sharing with a validator; in response to the electronic token request, generating a sharing token, which is unique to that request, for presentation by the bearer to a validator; associating with the unique sharing token at the digital identity system the identified at least one bearer attribute; and issuing to the bearer the unique sharing token; and wherein later presentation of the unique sharing token to the digital identify system by a validator causes the at least one bearer attribute associated with the sharing token to be rendered available to the validator by the digital identity system.

A data collection device comprising an input, a processor and an output. The input is configured to receive a user identifier receive data from external data generating equipment. The processor is configured to generate processed data comprising the received data and metadata including the user identifier. The output is configured to output the processed data to a data repository.

An apparatus, including a central processing computer including a database for storing an electronic healthcare record for an individual; and a distributed ledger and Blockchain technology system. The apparatus facilitates a video call between a user communication device of the individual and a provider communication device of a healthcare provider. The video information regarding the individual is displayed along with a portion of the electronic healthcare record for or associated with the individual in a split-screen or multiple screen format on a display device of the provider communication device. The user communication device transmits data obtained from a healthcare device or equipment, or biometric data or performance tracking data, to the provider communication device during the video call. The provider communication device processes information for updating the electronic healthcare record. The distributed ledger and Blockchain technology system stores information for updating the electronic healthcare record.

A method for commissioning an access control device according to one embodiment includes writing, by an enrollment reader, a site key and an access control device identifier to a credential device, reading, by the access control device, the site key and the access control device identifier from the credential device, writing, by the access control device, a device unique identifier (DUID) associated with the access control device and a modified access control device identifier to the credential device, and reading, by the enrollment reader, the DUID from the credential device.

A method of redeploying waste containers in a waste collection system with an active or passive signal means requires a user to aim an optical character recognition reader at a waste container comprising a unique optical waste container identifier. The optical character recognition reader reads unique waste container optical identifier. The unique waste container optical identifier is converted to a unique electronically formatted waste container identifier. A unique radio frequency signal identifier is stored on a radio frequency emitting tag and associated with the unique electronically formatted waste container identifier. The radio frequency emitting tag is attached to the waste container.

Techniques for eliminating RFID cross-reads for RFID point of sale scanners using imager object tracking are disclosed herein. An example method includes measuring, by an imager a series of displacements of an object from a center of the field of view (FOV) of the imager, over a timeframe; measuring, by an RFID reader, a series of received signal strengths for an RFID tag over the same timeframe; comparing the series of displacements to the series of received signal strengths over the timeframe to determine a measure of similarity between the series of displacements of the object from the center of the FOV of the imager and the series of received signal strengths for the RFID tag over the timeframe; and responsive to the measure of similarity exceeding a threshold measure of similarity, adding a record associated with the RFID tag to a transaction log.

A sample handling system for handling samples is disclosed. The sample handling system comprises sample holders, each receives a sample container; a sample transport device for moving the sample holders; a control unit for controlling functionality of the sample handling system, and a monitoring system for monitoring the samples during movement. The monitoring system comprises a camera module for continuously capturing images of a part of the sample transport device, wherein the camera module is at a distance from the sample transport device such that the camera module has a free field of view to the sample transport device, and a processor for processing the captured images and determining an item of information about the sample transport device and/or the sample container and/or the sample from the captured images. The control unit retrieves the item of information from the processor. The controlling is based on the retrieved item of information.

A method for integrating assets is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving, by a kinematic asset management platform, an indication of an attribute needed to perform a task. The method further comprises generating, by the kinematic asset management platform, a request to a plurality of reader nodes disposed at a respective plurality of locations for an inventor of assets at each of said respective plurality of locations. The method further comprises receiving, by the kinematic asset management platform, said inventory of assets from said respective plurality of locations. The method further comprises determining, by the kinematic asset management platform, and based on the attribute, that the attribute needed to perform the task is assigned to an asset present at a first location.