The Biometric finger print reader works in an almost identical manner and requires the user to present their finger to a small reader which can be built into a door, wall or other structure.
These systems can also be linked in with card access systems thus requiring staff to present their card and hand to gain entry.
The latest development in Biometric access and fingerprint readers allows the finger print to be stored on a memory sector within the card rather than in the client’s database. This has two huge advantages:
- The client is absolved or any data protection issues as no finger print information is kept by the client.
- All finger print information is kept on the memory of the card so making loss of a database a thing of the past and the system is much less vulnerable. The information on the card is also encrypted keeping it highly secure.
This is achieved by using the latest read/write technology in Mifare cards. The user presents their valid card to the reader and if authorised has their finger print read and that information is then stored in the form of a unique reference number on one of the 16 spare memory slots on the standard 1k card.
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