Jana Kalikova

User authentication system for testing students in computer sciences subjects

At CTU FTS we are currently developing BioTest, an authentication system for testing students using state-of-the-art information technology and unambiguous Biometric authentication for each user. We use this system for identification during exams and testing. The BioTest software operates on the basis of a students face recognition comparing the pattern with data on the students ID card, while informing the relevant teacher about the students identity.

Detection of persons in a vehicle using IR cameras and RFID technologies

A goal of this article consists in demonstrating the eCall system enhancement. We propose to enhance the system by next relevant information for emergency services - exact number of persons in a vehicle including recognising adults and children, number of disabled persons and their disability kind. Further, the system will enable to identify a driver.

Improvement of safety of buildings for handicapped persons: Public buildings and constructions (tunnels, bridges etc.)

Safety in public buildings is obtained by technical means employed in hazardous situations (accident, fire etc.). In case of an emergency, endangered premises can be evacuated by emergency exits, while the monitoring center monitors the situation and activates the pre-prepared contingency plans to enable safe (managed) evacuation. Special attention needs to be paid to the handicapped persons. Their impediments (blindness, restricted movement etc.) pose extra challenge, when in the ensuing chaos or panic they try to find emergency or barrier-free exits. This article describes a proposal for expansion of the existing evacuation systems by elements of localization of the handicapped persons in buildings. The aim is to provide this information to the rescue teams and thus improve the evacuation capacities for the handicapped.

Identification persons-security components of ID card

Personal identification is everyday struggle between each identified individual and the security personnel. This is equally important on academic grounds where unauthorized individuals could access university resources and university research. Even in case that every member of the academic staff is a holder of the university identification card used for access to restricted areas, computers, library or cafeterias, this identity card can be lost, stolen or borrowed to someone else. Therefore added security in form of combination of more complex chip card architecture and biometric is desired to ensure a proper level of protection.

People counting by means of Wi-Fi

People counting (detection) in public transport setting provides highly valuable information for transport lines planning in respect of their density, routes, timetables and vehicle occupancy. The real-time information on current number of passengers at given point enables the city councils together with the carriers to make significant improvements in line planning and resource use efficiency. Thus it allows lowering of their costs.

Parking Management Control System for smart cities

Concurrently, depending on increasing number of vehicles in cities, importance of incentive car-parks on peripheries, parking houses within shopping centres, airports, etc. constantly arises. At the same time, also demands on intelligent control such of these car-parks arise by reason of effective use of every parking spot. The proposed Parking Management Control System (PMCS) provides overview not only from the point of number of free spots but also number of spots intended for parents with children, handicapped persons, or XXL vehicles. In case, the vehicle is identified as one with permanently disabled persons, parents with children, or XXL vehicle then PMCS purposefully navigates this vehicle to a dedicated spot. During the certain time, the system knows actual positions of every vehicle, time spent on a car-parks, and its type.

System for simultaneous object identification & sector indoor localization (OIDSIL)

Nowadays ICT technology is infiltrated to all areas of human existence and the number of objects, animate or inanimate, actively acting within Internet services is rapidly growing. The reasons of object monitoring are permanently changing and evolving, following the development of public and non-public sectors. For example using of various tags, stuck on goods, are used for goods identification in stores and for security reasons for many years. Further, the assets identification using passive tags turns to active identification enabling automatic inventorying and permanent assets protection at the same time. Active identification provides also the remote monitoring of objects, moreover, when objects data are safely shared on Internet environment, a number of cloud services can be enabled to allow customers remote monitoring of objects. Based on such ICT environment, the architecture called Internet of Things is ready to come to daily life. The objects considered in such systems can be home appliances, medical devices, building assets, computers, mobile devices, cars, production components, manufacturing tools, building materials and, of course, people. Especially the bindings and relations among objects, for example an identified person having an expensive identified device and passing unauthorized zone is evaluated as a risk transaction resulting to a denied access. Beside the object identification the differentiation of static and moving objects brings a new important parameter to improve the IoT concept.

Multi-application ID card using DESFire EV1

Currently, when development of applications and technologies is definitely aimed at global use, such trend must be supported by unequivocal identification of users. The basic principles support safety elements (integrity, indisputableness, resistance to known and supposed forms of attacks) and do not link application to a physical carrier (plastic). The application can be hosted on a bank payment card or NFC (near field communication), etc. To reduce safety threats the concept of unequivocal identification using ID cards and conditions, which they technologically produce, are used. Individual technologies used can be defined in ISO/IEC 14443 contactless chip and infrastructure based in HSM (Hardware Security Module) and individual SAM (Secure Application Module) can be defined by key management of the chip content.