Smart Card Alliance releases guide specification for high security smart card-based access control systems
As part of its sustained efforts to further advance the adoption of high security smart card-based physical access control systems (PACS), the Smart Card Alliance has recently release a very useful guide specification designed to help architects, engineers, consultants, integrators, manufacturers and end users incorporate smart card-based PACS cards and readers into architectural and engineering specifications for facilities.
Smart cards are increasingly accepted as the credential of choice for securely authenticating identity, determining appropriate levels of information access and controlling physical access. The new tool released by the Smart Card Alliance, officially dubbed “Guide Specification for Architects and Engineers for Smart Card-based PACS Cards and Readers for Non-government PACS,” contains sample guide specifications for 13.56 MHz contactless smart card technology products.
The guide specification is written using industry standard formatting and language and is designed for use by architects, consultants, and specifying engineers who are preparing bid specifications for physical access control, building control, and security systems.
It focuses on the card-to-reader operations and is intended to work with a wide variety of commercial PACS. The specification assumes the card data model is designed in accordance with the specific PACS being implemented.
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