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EK8-Secure Token
The ECKey EK8 operates as a smart card (rather than a proximity card) reader of Bluetooth cell phones. All of the access rights for a worker to unlock doors are contained within an encrypted Secure Token stored on a Bluetooth capable phone as a standard business card or image. The worker sends these Secure Tokens to the EK8 via Bluetooth using a PIN. Once the Secure Token is authenticated and authorised the door or machinery will unlock.
These Secure Tokens are generated centrally and distributed to the phones via the cellular network. The Secure Tokens can provide access for an hour, day, week or month to a single door or group of doors. Using the optional phone enrolment, the Secure Tokens can be locked to a specific phone or range of phones and require a common PIN or a device specific PIN. All activities are logged and can be audited.
This provides centralised management of remote sites without online communication to those sites required by traditional proximity card based access control systems.
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APPLICATIONS |
A maintenance company manages a group of remote sites. Site 342 requires urgent maintenance. The repairman has left for his routine visits and his phones’ details are logged in the MK8 Management Software. A Secure Token is generated specifically for that repairman to have access to site 342 for that morning. The Secure Token is sent to the repairman as a business card over the cellular network. The repairman arrives at site 342 and sends the business card to the EK8 unit via Bluetooth using his specific PIN and the door opens. He leaves the site and the door locks. In the afternoon he realises he left his tools at site 342. He rings up and asks for a single access Secure Token for site 342 for the afternoon. A new Secure token is sent over the cellular network and he has a single access for that afternoon. Next month an administrator visits the site and is able to download the log of these events and compares them to the allocated job list for auditing. |
FEATURES |
• Centralised controlled creation and cellular network wide allocation of access control rights
• ECKey EK8 acts as an offline standalone door controller with audit history
• 128 bit encryption of the Secure Token and wireless communication from the phone to the EK8.
• No software required to be installed on the workers phones. The phones must support Bluetooth business card or file transfer.
• The Secure Token can provide access for a timed period or a set number of accesses.
• The Secure Token can be restricted to a specific phone or can be shared with any phone.
• The EK8 can require authentication of a fixed PIN or a specific PIN for each phone.
• The EK8 is installed internally so no externally mounting is required which avoids issues of weather proofing or vandalism.
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