"Offering integrated Mifare standard card readers makes our finger scanners even friendlier to existing and future electronic access control systems," explains Bashar Masad, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, Schlage Recognition Systems director of marketing. "The Fingerkey DX-2400, 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."

Mifare standard 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. Because the template resides only on the card, the solution also eases individual privacy concerns.