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EnTRAX

Entry Time Recording & Access Control System

• 12 key numerical backlit keypad allows PIN checks in access control applications.

• The on-board clock and the 16 KB memory allows the terminal to memorize tables for access control applications (valid cards or black lists), and allows it to record transactions (date, time, user code, direction and casual) and maintain an events history file.

• The internal battery can power the terminal for several hours in the event of a mains blackout.

Operation

• The transaction can require just a PIN, just a user card, or both.

• Off-line autonomous operation : either there is no connection to a PC, or the PC is connected only periodically to download transaction records and update tables.

• On-line functioning connected to a PC with the appropriate software installed: the terminal transmits the user card code to the host via the RS485 or RS232 port. It will go automatically into off-line mode if the host does not respond to messages within a user-defined time limit.

• Moves back and forth between on-line and off-line modes while maintaining console functionality and background communications transparency.

• Time zones control settable for each day of the week. Every user code can be associated to 8 different time zones. Each time zone is an interval which is associated with any mix of days of the week and with generic holidays. Up to 40 holidays can be defined in a separate file.

• Can be configured for common code validation (to be valid a card must have a particular code in a particular position).

• The PIN validation can be restricted to certain time zones. This makes it possible to increase security outside office hours and during week-ends and holidays.

• Cards can be validated or invalidated from the keypad, by means of read operation, or from the host computer.

• The terminal can be configured to switch itself off after X minutes of inactivity. Operations are resumed by pressing the “return” key. In this way its autonomy can be extended to several days.

• 1-2 figure casual codes can be associated to each transaction.

• In attendance recording applications the Entry or Exit status of the transaction is either determined by the direction of the swipe, or by the direction indicated on the display in relation to the current time zone. The status displayed can be inverted using a specific key.

Memory Management

The main memory is shared between the valid codes table and the transactions and events log buffer. Allocation is made in steps of 256 byte chunks; some of the several possible capacity combinations are shown in the tables below:

  

    

        

          
Cards with free format, with PIN
        
        

          
200 enabled codes
          
3300 recordable transactions
        
        

          
1000 enabled codes
          
2000 recordable transactions
        
      
  
  

    

        

          
Cards with planned format, 4-digit codes, no
              PIN
        
        

          
200 enabled codes
          
4800 recordable transactions
        
        

          
1000 enabled codes
          
4000 recordable transactions
        
      
  
  

    

        

          
Cards with free format, no PIN
        
        

          
200 enabled codes
          
3500 recordable transactions
        
        

          
1000 enabled codes
          
2400 recordable transactions
        
      
  
  

    

        

          
Cards with planned format, 4-digit codes, with
              PIN
        
        

          
200 enabled codes
          
4600 recordable transactions
        
        

          
1000 enabled codes
          
3800 recordable transactions
        
      
  

Notes

By “planned format cards” we mean cards with a codified track which you are familiar with and where a certain number of figures (2-12) are used as a personal ID code for the card user.

By “free format cards” we mean cards which the user already possesses (cashpoint card, credit card, other ID cards, etc.) where the codified track is not known or is not useful. These cards can anyway be used for access/control attendance recording transactions while maintaining the security and privacy of each individual cede, which is memorized by the terminal in a compressed format obtained using a non-reversible algorithm.

Options

• The optional IRDA port allows you to up and download data using a PocketPC with the appropriate software.

• Second reader option can be requested where IRDA is not used. Optional external anti-tamper switch.

Technical specifications