Is anyone out here using a biometric access control device? I'd reckon that the simplest/most popular ones are thumb or fingerprint based.
Say If I want a standalone device which can be used as a lock (or in conjunction with) is that possible? The only one I saw in the market was supporting Win platform (for pc access). So does it have a backup key? in case the batteries fail?
I may be wrong here, but someone on this list had mentioned a long time ago that they program such devices.
thanks abhi
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On Wednesday 01 March 2006 1:44 pm, Abhishek Daga wrote:
Is anyone out here using a biometric access control device?
Fingerprint access control systems is one of our products.
I'd reckon that the simplest/most popular ones are thumb or fingerprint based.
Say If I want a standalone device which can be used as a lock (or in conjunction with) is that possible?
Yes.
The only one I saw in the market was supporting Win platform (for pc access). So does it have a backup key? in case the batteries fail?
As usual we support only linux. For commercial details mail me at jtd at mtnl.net.in
On Thursday 02 March 2006 08:06, JTD wrote:
As usual we support only linux.
I have no intention of taking this thread off track but IMHO your statement doesnt sound right. You ought to support Windows as well. Not that I like Microsoft or Windows but I dont think this is the right policy. Windows users will feel left out :)
Sometime on Mar 3, Dinesh Joshi assembled some asciibets to say:
On Thursday 02 March 2006 08:06, JTD wrote:
As usual we support only linux.
I have no intention of taking this thread off track but IMHO your statement doesnt sound right. You ought to support Windows as well. Not
It is a business. They get paid for it. They have a right to support whatever limited market segment that they want to and to refuse business from whoever they want to.
On Saturday 04 March 2006 2:28 pm, Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime on Mar 3, Dinesh Joshi assembled some asciibets to say:
On Thursday 02 March 2006 08:06, JTD wrote:
As usual we support only linux.
I have no intention of taking this thread off track but IMHO your statement doesnt sound right. You ought to support Windows as well. Not
It is a business. They get paid for it.
Running our systems on GNU/Linux ensures that post install maintanence is reduced to a minimum and systems failures are near zero. Hence we can price systems cheaper.
They have a right to support whatever limited market segment that they want to and to refuse business from whoever they want to.
The market is not limited due to the use of linux at all. Most customers don't care what os is running on the backend subject to reliability being maintained. Roughly 5% of customers will specify M$ backend. Here too talking to the purchase dept. usually results in removal of such clauses. It is only where extraneous factors creep in we are locked out. Most suppliers buy ready made stuff from Taiwan or China which come preloaded with M$ junk. Removing this and loading linux is "non trivial". So they are effectively trapped.
On Saturday 04 March 2006 3:20 am, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Thursday 02 March 2006 08:06, JTD wrote:
As usual we support only linux.
I have no intention of taking this thread off track but IMHO your statement doesnt sound right. You ought to support Windows as well. Not that I like Microsoft or Windows but I dont think this is the right policy. Windows users will feel left out :)
Support windows? Are u my enemy or what?. If you want the type of reliability that security systems demand don't even think about it. If u have your systems hooked to the internet u are an idiot to use M $ products. We do "support" windows in a way. You can actually use Internet exploder running on a windoze pc to access services provided by our products. One of our clients has cameras hooked to a dvr running xp and 98 besides our systems. The xp thingy has crashed thrice in 3 months besides screwing the disk. The 98 box has crashed several times in 3 yrs. Our systems had one partial hardisk failure (out of seven) in 2.5 yrs. The disk would not read above 20 GB and was replaced.
On 3/4/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 02 March 2006 08:06, JTD wrote:
As usual we support only linux.
I have no intention of taking this thread off track but IMHO your statement doesnt sound right. You ought to support Windows as well. Not that I like Microsoft or Windows but I dont think this is the right policy. Windows users will feel left out :)
Intentions apart... you just did.
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