Schlage Recognition Systems Biometric FingerKey DX-2200 Handles Multiple Credentials, Including HID iCLASS
With Smart Cards, Fingerprint Readers Provide Greater Security and Biometric Template Portability
June 2, 2005
CAMPBELL, CALIF. – June 2, 2005 – Schlage Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand Security Technologies, announced today that an integrated HID iCLASS card reader is now an option available for its FingerKey DX family of products. These biometric finger scanners work with a variety of credentials including proximity, magnetic stripe and now HID iCLASS contactless smart cards, through its FingerKey DX-2200 model.
“Offering integrated HID iCLASS card readers makes our finger scanners even friendlier to existing and future electronic access control systems," explains William Kennedy, Schlage Recognition Systems product marketing manager for access control. “The FingerKey DX-2200, along with our already proven HandKey II with integrated smart card option, provides greater security and biometric template portability for our hand geometry and finger scanning technologies.”
HID iCLASS contactless smart cards store both the user's ID number and fingerprint template on the card, eliminating the need to distribute templates across a network or require the access control system to manage biometric templates. This means integration to existing access control applications is greatly simplified and there are no additional network infrastructure costs. Because the template resides only on the card, the solution also eases individual privacy concerns.
The FingerKey DX family of biometric access control readers provides low-cost biometric alternatives designed to secure smaller user populations. The FingerKey DX includes a keypad and LCD display. Expanded memory and Ethernet options are also available. Verification takes less than two seconds. The user simply enters a PIN code or presents a card, which calls up a template to scan or pulls the template from a smartcard. Then, the user places a finger on the FingerKey reader for verification of the template.
Along with the new FingerKey DX-2200 iCLASS, Schlage Recognition Systems also offers the FingerKey DX-2000, which uses a keypad or external reader for template verification, and the FingerKey DX-2100, which has an integrated HID proximity reader. The variety of options provided by Schlage Recognition Systems creates an extremely flexible combination of solutions for most applications.
Schlage Recognition Systems was named recipient of the 2004 Application Market Penetration Leadership Award for access control and time and attendance applications in Frost & Sullivan’s study, World Biometrics Market.
About Schlage Recognition Systems
With over 100,000 hand geometry units throughout the world reading millions of hands each day, Schlage Recognition Systems, founded in 1986, is the pioneer and only manufacturer of the leading two biometric technologies, hand geometry and finger scan. The world sales leader of biometric verification devices for access control and identification applications, it serves an international clientele from its headquarters in Campbell, Calif. Its website is www.handreader.com. Phone is 408-341-4100. Schlage Recognition Systems is a business/business unit of diversified industrial-firm Ingersoll Rand Company Limited, a leading innovation and solutions provider for the major global markets of security and safety, climate control, industrial solutions and infrastructure. Further information on Ingersoll Rand can be found on the company's web site at www.irco.com.
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For more information…
Bill Spence Tom Brigham
IR RECOGNITION SYSTEMS BRIGHAM SCULLY
408-341-4100 818-716-9021
bill_spence@irco.com tbrigham@brighamscully.com
“Offering integrated HID iCLASS card readers makes our finger scanners even friendlier to existing and future electronic access control systems," explains William Kennedy, Schlage Recognition Systems product marketing manager for access control. “The FingerKey DX-2200, along with our already proven HandKey II with integrated smart card option, provides greater security and biometric template portability for our hand geometry and finger scanning technologies.”
HID iCLASS contactless smart cards store both the user's ID number and fingerprint template on the card, eliminating the need to distribute templates across a network or require the access control system to manage biometric templates. This means integration to existing access control applications is greatly simplified and there are no additional network infrastructure costs. Because the template resides only on the card, the solution also eases individual privacy concerns.
The FingerKey DX family of biometric access control readers provides low-cost biometric alternatives designed to secure smaller user populations. The FingerKey DX includes a keypad and LCD display. Expanded memory and Ethernet options are also available. Verification takes less than two seconds. The user simply enters a PIN code or presents a card, which calls up a template to scan or pulls the template from a smartcard. Then, the user places a finger on the FingerKey reader for verification of the template.
Along with the new FingerKey DX-2200 iCLASS, Schlage Recognition Systems also offers the FingerKey DX-2000, which uses a keypad or external reader for template verification, and the FingerKey DX-2100, which has an integrated HID proximity reader. The variety of options provided by Schlage Recognition Systems creates an extremely flexible combination of solutions for most applications.
Schlage Recognition Systems was named recipient of the 2004 Application Market Penetration Leadership Award for access control and time and attendance applications in Frost & Sullivan’s study, World Biometrics Market.
About Schlage Recognition Systems
With over 100,000 hand geometry units throughout the world reading millions of hands each day, Schlage Recognition Systems, founded in 1986, is the pioneer and only manufacturer of the leading two biometric technologies, hand geometry and finger scan. The world sales leader of biometric verification devices for access control and identification applications, it serves an international clientele from its headquarters in Campbell, Calif. Its website is www.handreader.com. Phone is 408-341-4100. Schlage Recognition Systems is a business/business unit of diversified industrial-firm Ingersoll Rand Company Limited, a leading innovation and solutions provider for the major global markets of security and safety, climate control, industrial solutions and infrastructure. Further information on Ingersoll Rand can be found on the company's web site at www.irco.com.
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For more information…
Bill Spence Tom Brigham
IR RECOGNITION SYSTEMS BRIGHAM SCULLY
408-341-4100 818-716-9021
bill_spence@irco.com tbrigham@brighamscully.com
