[Gllug] Physical Access Control

[Richard Hall]

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 : ).
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>Dont have a link handy right now.
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>D!
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>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
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>>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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Royal Holloway, University of London
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