A method and apparatus of access control as described. A touch of a touch zone of an access controller including a body area network (BAN) transceiver is detected. In response to detecting the touch, a request from an access controller comprising a BAN transceiver via a body area network is transmitted to a user of a portable device including a BAN transceiver and a biometric sensor. The request is received by the portable device via the BAN network. In response to receiving the request, the portable device transmits a digital key comprising biometric data detected by the biometric sensor and a digital identifier from the portable device to the access controller via the BAN network. The user is authenticated by the access controller using the digital key. The access controller controls and actuator to lock or unlock a door in response to the user being authenticated.

Systems and methods are provided for providing access to secure-access facilities based on pairing of the secure-access facilities with a user device such as a wearable device. A pairable secure-access facility may be a public storage facility or device such as a locker that includes communications circuitry for pairing with the user device. Once paired with the user device, the locker may operate a locking mechanism to lock the locker when the user device is away from the locker and to unlock the locker when the user device is in the vicinity of the locker. The locker may include a beacon for detecting and pairing with the user devices. Pairing the user device and the locker may include entering a locker identifier into the user device to ensure that the intended user device is paired with the intended locker.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for capacitive through-body communication. In one aspect, a method includes capturing, from capacitive through-body communication with an on-body device worn by an individual, a biometric template comprising identification data associated with the individual, comparing the captured identification data of the captured biometric template with reference identification data of a stored biometric template associated with the individual, determining that the captured identification data matches the reference identification data of the stored biometric template; and authenticating identification of the individual.

Provided is a gate apparatus including a sensor that detects a pedestrian; multiple human body communication electrodes for performing human body communication; and a control unit that determines a position of the pedestrian according to information on the pedestrian detected by the sensor, performs outputting of a connection confirmation request packet through a human body communication electrode corresponding to the determined position, receives a connection confirmation response packet transmitted from a human body communication terminal and performs analysis processing on the received connection confirmation response packet, and performs opening and closing control of a gate opening and closing unit, in which the control unit stores in the connection confirmation request packet an output electrode identifier of a communication electrode that performs packet outputting, and determines whether or not the output electrode identifier and an electrode identifier of the electrode that receives the connection confirmation response packet agree with each other.

The method and system for access control, comprising detecting, by the electronic lock a tactile action by a body on a tactile sensor. The electronic lock transmitting a first signal using very low frequency band in response to said detection of tactile action through said body. The electronic key fob receives the first electromagnetic signal, where the first signal is transmitted through a body in contact with a transmitter of said first electromagnetic signal i.e. the electronic lock. Further, the electronic key fob transmits a second electromagnetic signal in response to receipt of said first electromagnetic signal. The electronic lock receives the second signal in response to said first signal and disengages or engages a lock in response to said received second signal.

Provided is a personal authentication device capable of simply securing security with little psychological and physical burden of a user to be authenticated. Personal authentication device includes: storage that stores first and second identification information for identifying a user; analysis unit that analyzes information inputted to a user and generates the first identification information; transmission unit that transmits a first acoustic signal to a part of a user's head; observation unit that observes a second acoustic signal; calculation unit that calculates acoustic characteristics from the first and the second acoustic signal; extraction unit that extracts an acoustic feature amount from the acoustic characteristics as second identification information; and determination unit that determines the user to be identical when first identification information registered and the first identification information generated coincide with each other and second identification information registered and the second identification information extracted coincide with each other.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for capacitive through-body communication. In one aspect, a method includes capturing, from capacitive through-body communication with an on-body device worn by an individual, a biometric template comprising identification data associated with the individual, comparing the captured identification data of the captured biometric template with reference identification data of a stored biometric template associated with the individual, determining that the captured identification data matches the reference identification data of the stored biometric template; and authenticating identification of the individual.

A person identification device 100 has a tag 110 with a code and a tamper evident tether 120 able to secure the tag 110 to a person having a body. The person identification device also has a signal generator 140 able to generate a signal representing the code. The tag 110 has a capacitive contact 130 able to capacitively couple the signal into the body of the person.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for capacitive through-body communication. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a selection from a user representing a first individual to prevent identification data to be transmitted by an on-body device, transmitting an identification request to the on-body device associated with the first individual, receiving an indication that a second individual possesses the on-body device associated with the first individual, sending a command to the on-body device associated with the first individual to prevent transmitting the identification data stored on the on-body device associated with the first individual.

A vehicle control system includes a terminal device and a vehicle. The terminal device includes a first verification unit that verifies whether the terminal devices matches the vehicle through wireless communication when the terminal device enters an area in which wireless communication between the terminal device and the vehicle is available, and an operation instruction unit that receives an instruction to execute a predetermined operation of the vehicle from the user and the first verification unit has verified that the terminal device matches the vehicle, and transmits a signal according to the instruction to the vehicle, and the vehicle includes a second verification unit that communicates with the first identification unit and verify whether with the vehicle matches the terminal device, and an operation controller that receives the signal from the operation instruction unit and executes the predetermined operation according to the signal.