1. A protection device apt to be worn on by a health operator during surgery, comprising:
a main body substantially shaped as a bearing helmet, apt to surround the health operators head and to be worn on jointly to a transparent vision element; and
means for forced circulation of air in an environment apt to accommodate the operator’s head and defined b said main body and by the associated vision element,
characterized in that said forced circulation means comprises air suction means, apt to cause an evacuation of exhausted air from said environment,
wherein said main body is internally hollow and wherein said forced circulation means comprises one or more partitioning bulkheads, apt to partition the internal recess of said main body into a delivery chamber and a suction chamber.
2. The protection device according to claim 1, wherein said air suction means is at least partially housed at said main body.
3. The protection device according to claim 2, wherein said air suction means is arranged at an apical portion of said main body.
4. The protection device according to claim 1, wherein said air suction means is housed at a longitudinal upright of said main body.
5. The protection device according to claim 1, wherein said air suction means is at least partiality positionable in a remote position with respect to said main body.
6. The protection device according to claim 1, wherein said air suction means comprises a connecting element arranged at said main body and apt to establish a fluid communication with said environment, wherein preferably said connecting element in the form of vent or sleeve.
7. The protection device according to claim 6, wherein said connecting element arranged at a top portion of said main body.
8. The protection device according to claim 1, wherein said forced circulation means also comprises means for inletting air in said environment.
9. The protection device according to claim 8, wherein said air inletting means is implemented as ventilation means distinct from said air suction means.
10. The protection device according to claim 8, where said air inletting means and said air suction means are implemented by common ventilation means.
11. The protection device according to claim 1, wherein said main body is internally hollow and defines one or more chambers for delivery andor suction of air circulated by said forced circulation means.
12. The protection device according claim 1, wherein said delivery chamber and a suction chamber are respectively a top chamber and a bottom chamber.
13. The protection device according to claim 12, wherein said bulkhead or at least one of said bulkheads is arranged at a top portion of said main body.
14. The protection device according to claim 1, wherein said main body is formed by one or more load-bearing structural members having a tubular configuration and apt to guide an air flow generated by said forced circulation means inlet to andor outlet from said environment.
15. The protection device according to claim 14, wherein said load-bearing structural members having a tubular configuration comprise one or more transversal uprights andor longitudinal upright of said main body.
16. The protection device according to claim 1, wherein said forced circulation means comprises one or more openings for delivery andor suction of air, obtained at said main body and preferably arranged at a side andor front portion of the latter.
17. The protection device according to claim 16, wherein one or more of said openings are arranged at a chin guard portion of said main body.
18. The protection device according to claim 1, comprising control means for controlling the flow rate andor the velocity of air sucked andor inlet by said forced circulation means.
19. The protection device according to claim 1, comprising means for the removable connection to a garment associated to the vial on element, which removable connection means is arranged at said main body, and preferably at a top portion of the latter.
20. The protection device according to claim 19, wherein said removable connection means is in the form of one or more shaped connection flanges.
21. The protection device according to claim 19, wherein one or more virus- andor bacteria-filtrating elements are provided, applied at said removable connection means.
22. The protection device according to claim 1, comprising means for adjusting the longitudinal (azimuthal) position of said main body on the operator’s head.
23. The protection device according to claim 1, comprising means for adjusting the circumferential position of said main body on the operators head.
24. The protection device according to claim 22, wherein said means for adjusting the longitudinal and circumferential position comprise a single actuation means for the simultaneous actuation of said adjusting, which actuation means is preferably in the form of a knob.
25. The protection device claim 1, wherein said actuation means is arranged at an occipital region of the device itself.
26. The protection device according to claim 1, comprising means for securing said main body to the vision element, which means is of magnetic type.
27. A protection system comprising a protection device according to claim 1, a transparent vision element associated or associable to the main body of said device, and connection means between said main body and said vision element.
28. The protection system according to claim 27, wherein the arrangement is such that, in use, said vision element is tilted of an angle comprised in a range of about 3-8 degrees toward the operator with respect to the verbal.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A banking system comprising:
a network;
one or more cash handling machines connected to the network, the cash handling machine arranged to generate a status report on detection of a status update event related to operation of the cash handling machine;
at least one monitoring device connected to the network to which the status report is addressed; and
one or more user devices connected to the network;
wherein the at least one monitoring device is arranged such that at least one operative of each user device can subscribe to a particular one or more of said cash handling machines andor a particular one or more event types; and
wherein the at least one monitoring device is configured to receive the status reports and to filter the status reports based on one or more report identifiers in each report identifying the cash handling machine generating the report andor an event type, and to transmit to each of the user devices only the filtered status reports which contain report identifiers identifying the one or more cash handling machines andor event types to which an operative of the user terminal has subscribed.
2. A banking system according to claim 1, wherein each of the one or more cash handling machines comprises:
a cash handling mechanism for handling physical documents or tokens pertaining to monetary value to implement a customer facing transaction;
a controller executing an embedded application for monitoring the status of the cash handling mechanism and arranged to generate the status report on detection of the status update event, the status report addressed to the at least one monitoring device; and
a network port connected to receive the status report from the controller for transmitting the report to the at least one monitoring device.
3. A banking system according to claim 2, wherein the network port is configured to transmit the report when the status update event is detected.
4. A banking system according to claim 2, wherein:
each of the one or more cash handling machines is provided with a unique machine identifier, and the one or more report identifiers comprise the machine identifier;
the at least one operative of each user device can subscribe to a particular one or more of said cash handling machines; and
the at least one monitoring device is configured to filter the status reports based on the machine identifier in each report identifying the cash handling machine generating the report, and to transmit to each user device only the filtered status reports where the machine identifier identifies the one or more cash handling machines to which an operative of the user terminal has subscribed.
5. A banking system according to claim 2, in which a plurality of different types of status update events can be detected, wherein:
the one or more report identifiers comprise an event-type identifier which identifies the type of the event included in the status report;
the at least one operative of each user device can subscribe to a particular one or more of said event types; and
the at least one monitoring device is configured to filter the status reports based on the event-type identifier in each report identifying the event type, and to transmit to each user device only the filtered status reports where the event-type identifier identifies the one or more event types to which an operative of the user terminal has subscribed.
6. A banking system according to claim 2, wherein the status update events include one or more of the following types:
operational events including a minimum amount of cash remains in the machine,
a maximum amount of cash is in the machine, and
the machine is empty of cash;
diagnostic events pertaining to the mechanical functioning of the cash handling mechanism;
events pertaining to the controller; and
time based events.
7. A monitoring device for use in a banking system, the monitoring device comprising:
a network port for connecting the device to a network and configured to receive status reports from a plurality of cash handling machines connected to the network;
a filter function for receiving a subscription message from an operative at a user device via the network port and configured to select filter settings for filtering incoming status reports based on one or more report identifier identified in the subscription message; and
a control function for transmitting to the user device, via the network port, only status reports based on the filter settings for the operative at that user device.
8. A monitoring device according to claim 7, wherein the report identifier uniquely identifies a particular cash handling machine in a plurality of machines.
9. A monitoring device according to claim 7, wherein the report identifier uniquely identifies a type of status update event included in a status report.
10. A monitoring device according to claim 7, configured to display the status reports at the user device: at the request of an operative at the user device; periodically; or when the report is received at the monitoring device.
11. A method of monitoring operation of a plurality of cash handling machines connected to a network in a banking system, the method comprising:
receiving from each of the cash handling machines, status reports identifying status update events detected at the cash handling machines;
filtering the status report based on a report identifier in each report to provide to a user device only filtered status reports containing report identifiers to which an operative of the user device has subscribed; and
displaying the filtered status reports at the user device.
12. A method of monitoring operation of a group of cash handling machines connected to a network in a banking system, the method comprising:
receiving from each of a plurality of the cash handling machines, including said group but not restricted to said group, status reports identifying status update events detected at the cash handling machine;
filtering the status report based on a machine identifier in each report to provide to a user device, status reports only from the group of machines to which an operative of the user device has subscribed; and
displaying the filtered status reports at the user device.
13. A method according to claim 12, wherein the report identifier is a machine identifier which identifies cash handling machine whereby an operative can monitor a selected group of machines from the plurality.
14. A method according to claim 12, wherein the group of machines is in a single branch of a bank.
15. A method according to claim 13, wherein the group of machines comprise machines in multiple branches in a region.
16. A method according to claim 12, wherein the step of filtering is further carried out based on report identifiers which are event-type identifiers in the status reports.
17. A computer program product comprising program code embodied on a computer-readable storage medium, which when executed by a processor in a monitoring device performs the method of claim 11.
18. A banking system according to claim 1 wherein the filtered status reports which contain report identifiers identifying the one or more case handling machines andor event types to which an operative of the user terminal has subscribed are available when that operative logs in to the banking system.
19. A monitoring device according to claim 7, wherein the status reports based on the filter settings for the operative at that user device are available when that operative logs in to the banking system.
20. A method according to claim 11, wherein the filtered status reports are available to the operative at the user device when that operative logs in to the banking system.
21. A method according to claim 12, wherein the filtered status reports are available to the operative at the user device when that operative logs in to the banking system.