OPERATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
A method includes issuing via an electronic lock a first message advertising that the electronic lock is available for communication, issuing via a smartphone a second message establishing communication with the electronic lock in response to the first message, transmitting a third message including an encrypted lock identification from the electronic lock to the smartphone, transmitting a fourth message including the lock identification and a smartphone identification from the smartphone to a cloud which, in response to the fourth message, transmits to the smartphone a fifth message including data relating to an update, and transmitting a sixth message including the data from the smartphone to the electronic lock.
1 . A method comprising:
issuing via an electronic lock a first message advertising that the electronic lock is available for communication;
issuing via a smartphone a second message establishing communication with the electronic lock in response to the first message;
transmitting a third message including an encrypted lock identification from the electronic lock to the smartphone;
transmitting a fourth message including the lock identification and a smartphone identification from the smartphone to a cloud which, in response to the fourth message, transmits to the smartphone a fifth message including data relating to an update; and
transmitting a sixth message including the data from the smartphone to the electronic lock.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the update includes at least one of a user database update, a time and date update, and a lock configuration update.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the cloud verifies the lock identification and the smartphone identification before transmitting the fifth message.
4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting a seventh message including encrypted information from the electronic lock to the smartphone in response to the sixth message.
5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the encrypted information includes encrypted door, battery, audit, and maintenance information.
6 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising transmitting an eighth message including the encrypted door, battery, audit, and maintenance information from the smartphone to the cloud.
7 . The method of claim 6 , further comprising storing the door, battery, audit, and maintenance information in one or more databases in the cloud.
8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein communication between the electronic lock and the smartphone is wireless communication.
9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the wireless communication is Bluetooth communication.
10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein communication between the smartphone and the cloud at least partly occurs over the Internet.
11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein communication between the smartphone and the cloud is wireless communication.
12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein communication between the smartphone and the cloud at least partly occurs over the Internet.
13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the electronic lock is used in association with a door to control access through the door.
14 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the electronic lock, the smartphone, and the cloud communicate with one another without a user of the smartphone realizing that communication is occurring.