Wireless interface for ATM cassette and money transport
View Patent ↗In an example embodiment, there is described herein an apparatus comprising a cassette operable to store documents, the cassette having an external surface, an electrophoretic display coupled with the external surface, and a wireless interface coupled with the cassette and operably coupled with the electrophoretic display. In particular embodiments, the electrophoretic display is operable to receive data representative of configuration from a wireless device in data communication with the wireless interface.
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a cassette operable to store documents, the cassette having an external surface;
an electrophoretic display coupled with the external surface; and
a wireless interface coupled with the cassette and operably coupled with the electrophoretic display;
a processor coupled with the electrophoretic display and the wireless interface;
the processor is operable to receive data representative of contents of the cassette wirelessly from an external device via the wireless interface; and
the processor is operable to cause the electrophoretic display to output data representative of the data representative of contents of the cassette.
2. The apparatus set forth in claim 1 , wherein the data representative of contents of the cassette comprises data representative of a country of origin for currency stored within the cassette.
3. The apparatus set forth in claim 1 , wherein the data representative of contents of the cassette comprises data representative of a denomination of a currency stored within the cassette.
4. The apparatus set forth in claim 1 , wherein the data representative of contents of the cassette comprises data representative of a financial intuition.
5. The apparatus set forth in claim 1 , wherein the data representative of contents of the cassette comprises data causing the electrophoretic display present data in the form of a bar code.
6. The apparatus set forth in claim 5 , wherein the bar code is a quick response (OR) code.
7. The apparatus set forth in claim 1 , wherein the wireless interface is a near field communication (NFC) compatible interface.
8. The apparatus set forth in claim 1 , wherein the wireless interface is a inter-integrated circuit (I2C) compatible interface.
9. The apparatus set forth in claim 1 , wherein the wireless interlace is operable to communicate with both near field communication (NFC) and inter-integrated circuit (I2C).
10. The apparatus set forth in claim 1 , further comprising a processor, wherein the processor is operable to provide cassette data to a wireless device associated with the wireless interface.
11. The apparatus set forth in claim 10 , wherein the cassette data comprises a selected one of a group consisting of a serial number of the cassette, a denomination of currency stored in the cassette, a country of origin for currency stored in the cassette, a note count, a balance of currency stored in the cassette.
12. The apparatus set forth in claim 10 , wherein the cassette data comprises cassette metrics comprising a selected one of a group consisting of number of sheets dispensed, number of cassette insertions, a lifetime number of feed fails, a life time number of double sheets dispensed, a number of feed fails since a last visit, a number of doubles since the last visit, an indication of whether tampering was detected, and a current battery status.
13. The apparatus set forth in claim 10 , wherein the cassette data comprises case in transit data comprising a selected one of a group consisting of when the cassette was opened, a residual monetary value of cassette contents, and an average of residual monetary.
14. The apparatus set forth in claim 1 , further comprising:
a picking mechanism for picking a sheet from a stack of sheets within the cassette;
a second wireless interface coupled with the processor, the second wireless interface is operable to receive instructions from an automated banking machine to pick the sheet, and the processor is responsive to the instruction received at the wireless interface to cause the picking mechanism to pick the sheet; and
a third communication interface operable to communicate data representative of a location of the cassette during transport.
15. A tangible, non-transitory computer readable medium of instructions comprising computer readable instructions encoded thereon for execution by a processor and when executed operable to:
receive data representative of cassette contents via a wireless interface coupled with a cassette from an external device in data communication with the wireless interface; and
operate an electrophoretic display coupled with an exterior surface of the cassette to output data representative of the data representative cassette contents responsive to receiving the data representative of cassette contents from the wireless device in data communication with a wireless interface.
16. An apparatus, comprising:
a wireless interface; and
a processor coupled with the wireless interface;
wherein the processor is operable to obtain data representative of contents of a cassette;
wherein the processor is operable to communicate the data representative of the contents of the cassette via the wireless interface with an electrophoretic display coupled with an exterior surface of the cassette cassette, the cassette is operable to store documents and one of a group consisting of dispense and accept documents; and
wherein communicating the data representative of the contents of the cassette is operable to cause the electrophoretic display to output data representative of the data reperesentative of the contents of the cassette.
17. The apparatus set forth in claim 16 , wherein the data representative of the contents of the cassette comprises data representative of a country of origin for currency notes stored in the cassette.
18. The apparatus set forth in claim 16 , wherein the data representative of the contents of the cassette comprises data representative of a denomination of currency notes stored in the cassette.
19. The apparatus set forth in claim 16 , further comprising:
a display coupled with the processor;
wherein the processor is operable receive data representative of cassette data that comprises a selected one of a group consisting of a serial number of the cassette, a denomination of currency stored in the cassette, a country of origin for currency stored in the cassette, a note count, a balance of currency stored in the cassette to be output on the display; and
wherein the processor is operable to cause the data representative of cassette data that comprises the selected one of a group consisting of the serial number of the cassette, the denomination of currency stored in the cassette, the country of origin for currency stored in the cassette, the note count, the balance of currency stored in the cassette to be output on the display.
20. The apparatus set forth in claim 16 , further comprising:
a display coupled with the processor;
wherein the processor is operable to receive via the wireless interface data representative of cassette metrics comprising a selected one of a group consisting of number of sheets dispensed, number of cassette insertions, a lifetime number of feed fails, a life time number of double sheets dispensed, a number of feed fails since a last visit, a number of doubles since the last visit, an indication of whether tampering was detected, and a current battery status; and
wherein the processor is operable to cause the data representative of cassette metrics comprising the selected one of the group consisting of number of sheets dispensed, number of cassette insertions, the lifetime number of feed fails, the lifetime number of double sheets dispensed, the number of feed fails since the last visit, the number of doubles since the last visit, the indication of whether tampering was detected, and the current battery status.