CAMPBELL, CALIF. - January 24, 2007 - Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that an integrated MIFARE smart card reader is now an option available for its FingerKey DX family of products. These biometric finger scanners can use a variety of credentials including proximity and magnetic stripe cards as well HID iCLASS and now MIFARE standard 1K and 4K programmable contactless smart cards, through the new FingerKey DX-2400 model.
"Offering integrated MIFARE standard card readers makes our finger scanners
even friendlier to existing and future electronic access control systems,"
explains Bashar Masad, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, Schlage Recognition
Systems director of marketing. "The FingerKey DX-2400, along with our already
proven HandKey II with integrated smart card option, provides greater security
and biometric template portability for our hand geometry and finger scanning
technologies."
MIFARE standard contactless smart cards store both the user's ID number and
fingerprint template on the card, eliminating the need to distribute templates
across a network or require the access control system to manage biometric templates.
This means integration to existing access control applications is greatly simplified
and there are no additional network infrastructure costs. Because the template
resides only on the card, the solution also eases individual privacy concerns.
The FingerKey DX family of biometric access control readers provides low-cost
biometric alternatives designed to secure smaller user populations. The FingerKey
DX includes a keypad and LCD display. Expanded memory and Ethernet options are
also available. Verification takes less than two seconds. The user simply enters
a PIN code or presents a card, which calls up a template to scan or pulls the
template from a smartcard. Then, the user places a finger on the FingerKey reader
for verification of the template.
Along with the new FingerKey DX-2400 MIFARE reader, Schlage Recognition Systems
also offers the FingerKey DX-2000, which uses a keypad or external reader for
template verification, and the FingerKey DX-2100, which has an integrated HID
proximity reader and the FingerKey DX-2200, which uses an HID iCLASS smart card.
The variety of options provided by Schlage Recognition Systems creates an extremely
flexible combination of solutions for most applications.