Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

New year brings new reader for Siemens access control

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Siemens has introduced a new multi-communication protocol reader to be released in early 2008. The Siemens PP500-EM is a heavy-duty proximity and PIN reader which can be used in any of the popular SiPass access control systems: SiPass Entro Lite, SiPass Entro and SiPass Integrated. The reader supports 2 different card technologies - 125 KHz (released in February 2008) and Cotag (released in May 2008). The reader offers online status monitoring and use of both active and passive card reading.

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