[Gllug] Physical Access Control

[D]

I guess the one Unix solution your talking of is Casi-Rusco but read it carefully and your see for the client software they use a m$ OS! Grr!
Seems theres a whole in the market waiting to be exploited then.

D!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Hall 
  To: gllug at linux.co.uk 
  Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 6:19 PM
  Subject: Re: [Gllug] Physical Access Control


  Grosvenor binned the project apparently after a lack of interest.

  It's strange I would of thought that Linux and embedded linux would be ideal platforms for physical access control solutions but everyone seems to use Windows OS for it.   I must have spoken to 15 different companies but I have only found one so far that offers a Unix solution and that is for airports (not just 5 doors).   If I wasn't so crap at programming I'd start a project myself.

  Rich

  D wrote:

Grovenor was working on Janus for unix OS's at one point, dont know how that
got on as at the time they saked a load of there programmers for
incompitance : ).

Dont have a link handy right now.

D!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hall" <r.j.hall at rhul.ac.uk>
To: "GLLUG" <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 2:23 PM
Subject: [Gllug] Physical Access Control


  Has anyone heard of a Physical Access Control system that runs on Linux?
  All of the commercial ones either seem to be using windows as the OS
for the servers which I think is a ridiculous choice for a system that
needs to be reliably up 99.999% of the time and not rebooted every
couple of days for hot fix installations.   The next step up seems to be
airport grade systems which run on Solaris and probably cost millions.
I need some method of controlling access to several rooms in several
locations on a 100 acre campus using smart/swipe cards or biometrics
authentication of some kind over ethernet to a central server. I don't
mind paying for a commercial solution but I cant afford the same as an
airport.

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