[Muscle] Door locks

[Timothy J. Miller]

Daniel Benoy wrote:
> If MuscleCard works well for me, I'm going to advocate that we use them 
> for authentication at my work.
> 
> One question which is bound to come up is 'Can we use them to unlock 
> doors', because we currently use proximity cards.
> 
> Is it possible to use MuscleCard to authenticate at the doors, or, 
> possibly, is there a company out there that will let you load a separate 
> applet onto the same card which could be used to securely open doors?  
> It's very unlikely that my company would fund a custom solution, so 
> there has to be a company out there that offers this ability.
> 

I'm not advocating here, just pointing out that yes, indeed, there is a 
market for smartcard controlled doors.  Here's one company:

http://corestreet.com/solutions/prod_tech/card/

-- Tim

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