RFID & Door Lock
RFID & Door Lock
RFID & Door Lock
Definition of RFID
For many of us, using a key to start a car, a card to access a building or
room and validating a bus or underground ticket have become part of our
daily routine. Without always realising it, we use automatic data capture
technology that relies on radio-frequency electromagnetic fields. This
.technology is known as Radio-Frequency IDentification or RFID
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) can be defined as follows: Automatic
identification technology which uses radio-frequency electromagnetic
.fields to identify objects carrying tags when they come close to a reader
However, RFID cannot be reduced to one technology. RFID uses several
radio frequencies and many types of tag exist with different
.communication methods and power supply sources
RFID tags generally feature an electronic chip with an antenna in order to
pass information onto the interrogator (also known as a base station or
more generally, reader)
This is an absolutely key part of the technology; RFID tags donot need to contain
batteries, and can therefore remain
.usable for very long periods of time (maybe
decades)
When an RFID tag passes through the field of the scanningantenna, it detects the
activation signal from the
antenna. That "wakes up" the RFID chip, and it transmits the
information on its microchip to be picked up by the scanning
.antenna
: Parameters
Pins definition
V 5V/3.3V) 1(
G GND) 2(
TX Series port output) 3(
RX With or without card indication ) 4(
WO Wiegand data 0
(7) T1 Antenna 1 ) 5(
W1 Wiegand data 1
(8) T2 Antenna 2 ) 6(
There're four basic operation methods of magnetic door locks. The first method involves a buzzer and has to be
manually operated to open the
door by releasing the
lock. The second involves the use of a keypad
system that opens and closes the door with a numerical
code. The third one presupposes the use of special card
readers and is mainly used for
businesses and
commercial buildings. At last, magnetic locks can be
operated with the use of fingerprint scanners by means of
which only
chosen people can enter and leave the
building. There are also more
complicated systems
that involve scanning different parts of the body for
.instance, the eye and other facial parts