[Muscle] Door locks

[Michael StJohns]

The card body (the plastic carrier) can be one of several configurations.  The most common for javacards with an RF capability seems to be Mifare.  But there are companies that can provide cards or card bodies that have the more normal prox card RF capabilities (either instead of or in addition to Mifare). There are also a number of different frequencies used for the prox readers - you have to buy compatible cards.

There are a few different systems used for prox card access and most don't use the smart card capabilities.  You could build one pretty easily using the Mifare (ISO14443) RF - but you'd probably have to replace most of the existing readers.  

Mike


At 12:14 PM 6/17/2009, 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. 
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