A method for authenticating a user on a transportation vehicle, wherein the transportation vehicle is coupled to an external device storing an authentication secret code and to at least one token storing a token secret code. In the method the token secret code is transmitted to the transportation vehicle when an operator control action performed with the at least one token is sensed. A new secret code is generated from the token secret code and is compared with the authentication secret code. When the new secret code matches the authentication secret code, the user is authenticated on the transportation vehicle. Also disclosed is an apparatus for authenticating a user on a transportation vehicle.

A computer-implemented method, the method being performed in a system comprising an electronic lock and a client device comprising a central processing unit, a localization signal receiver and a memory, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving at least one localization signal using the localization signal receiver; measuring a strength of the received localization signal; using the central processing unit to extract a identifier from the received localization signal; determining a location of the client device based at least on the measured strength of the received localization signal and the extracted identifier; and causing the electronic lock to unlock based on the determined location.

The present disclosure relates generally to a vehicle control method of an electronic device, and the electronic device. The electronic device may include a display, a first communication circuit, a second communication circuit, one or more sensors, a memory, and a processor electrically coupled to the display, the first communication circuit, the second communication circuit, the memory, and the one or more sensors. The memory may store at least one instruction, when executed by the processor causes the electronic device to: detect a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) value of a Radio Frequency (RF) signal received from a vehicle through the first communication circuit, convert the detected RSSI value based on deviation information stored in the memory, and transmit the RF signal including the converted RSSI value to the vehicle through the first communication circuit.

Systems and methods for electronic access control for secured assets including locked facilities, lockers, shared vehicles and vending machines, which do not have internet connectivity. A mobile device communicates with a server to perform the authentication and access control steps, limiting the asset's interactions with outside devices to exchanging and updating access codes via short-range communications, such as near-field communications. Authentication and access control steps may be performed when the mobile device is at the secured asset, or alternatively those steps may be performed in advance, to allow access to assets located outside of data service to the mobile device.

Embodiments of the present disclosure establish unlock codes for groups of physical locks and include a single code reset or override device to render the combination of each lock settable. In embodiments, based on a request to reset a first unlock code associated with one of the physical locks, a replacement unlock code is generated and transmitted to a mobile communications device, whereupon the first unlock code can be changed to the replacement unlock code.

The invention relates to a method of pre-authenticating a user at a vehicle with a view to allowing the user to access the vehicle when a handle provided on a door of said vehicle is actuated, said user being provided with a mobile device, said vehicle and said mobile device each comprising a wireless communication interface operating according to the BLE protocol; each of said interfaces initially being in the notification state in which each of said interfaces transmits for a basic transmission time; said method comprising: steps of connecting said interfaces according to the BLE protocolsteps of identifying and authenticating the mobile device, by the vehicle; a step in which the vehicle stores the identity data or the mobile device if the identification and authentication steps have been completed; a subsequent step in which, when the handle of the vehicle door is actuated, the interface of the vehicle shifts from the notification state to the scanning state; a tenth step in which the interface in the scanning state confirms the presence of the interface of the mobile device in the notification state.

An access control method for people in which the access control device (16) is assigned to an access point. Each access control device (16) has at least one antenna (1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11), which emits beacons. Each access area (3) can only accommodate one person at a time. All antennas lie on an antenna plane. The transmitted beacons containing a unique access point ID, which positively identifies the access point and a unique antenna ID within predefined intervals. The received beacons are analyzed based on the RSSIs (Received Signal Strength Indicator) such that the distance of the mobile device (14) to the at least one antenna (1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11) is determined. The received access point ID are transmitted to a server (15) or to the access control device (16) for analysis. Access is granted if the access authorization is valid for the access point ID.

An activate signal is sent out from a remote controller via a first channel. An authorization process is activated after the activate signal is received by an access control terminal. A control signal is sent out from the remote controller via a second channel to the access control terminal. The access control terminal is unlocked if the control signal received by the access control terminal is verified by the authorization process to be consistent with a predetermined rule. The first channel is different from the second channel.

A lock system including an electronic lock and a wireless device having a location determining utility configured to determine a location of the wireless device. The electronic lock and the wireless device communicate wirelessly with one another and send commands to and from one another to perform a specific task when the wireless device is within a specified range of the electronic lock. The location of the wireless device and a speed of the wireless device may be used to calculate an estimated arrival of the wireless device at the electronic lock, and the specific task may be performed substantially at the estimated arrival.

There is provided a method and apparatus for communications using short range communications such as Near Field Communications (NFC). A mobile device comprising an NFC subsystem provides a dynamic credential for use to login to a network requiring two factor authentication. A terminal used for logging in to the network is associated with an NFC reader, and bringing the NFC device in proximity to the NFC reader provides the terminal with the dynamic credential required for two factor authentication.