March 17, 2008—Honeywell has launched the OmniAssure mifare contactless smart card readers, developed in conjunction with Integrated Engineering, a leader in the smart card industry. Mifare is a technology for contactless smart cards, using radio frequencies for data transmission and permitting writing and reading of cards.
Honeywell’s OmniAssure readers make the power of mifare accessible to the security industry, says the company. It enables smart cards to be used across multiple applications including access control, logical (PC) access, storage of biometric (fingerprint, iris) templates, secure IDs with embedded tamper- proof digital photos, parking, ePurse and many other applications requiring secure and reliable read/write cards.
The patented flash-on-card design allows firmware to be easily updated without having to remove the readers from the wall. The smart card readers feature built-in hardware to support future RS485 protocols, as well as the reading and writing of smart card credentials, making the OmniAssure capable of being updated to the exciting new technologies of the future.
For more information, see the Honeywell Web site.
