Wireless Access Control

Wireless Access Control products have been around for a few years now but the quality has left some to be desired. OSI Security Devices Inc. have been providing leading educational institutions across the world, superior products for quite some time. Perhaps not as well known as the larger companies, OSI have produced this incredible new product that offers many of the same advantages of a hard wired system but in a stand alone wireless access control format.

Enter the OM250 (pictured here).

System Features

Maximum General Users: 250 unique user codes (All Users can be extended to change access level of lock)
Maximum Submasters: 5 unique restrictable submasters
Access Levels: Unlocked, Code Required, and Lockout.
Antitamper: Temporary disables keypad for period of 10 seconds if 3 invalid codes are entered. Prevents hackers from "guessing" codes.
Audit: retains activity of the last 250 events, including entries, scheduled actions, antitamper mode, daylight savings setting, and user attempts.
Time schedule: Set eight events per day for each of the seven days the week. Plus, 32 holiday schedules with 2 varying holiday schedules.
Autocode: Allows programming of all 250 codes instantly!!
Battery Life: 5 years/50,000 entries. Lithium Power-Pak

The new wireless package consists of:

WAMS Software Features:

• Uses standard Microsoft Windows XP Professional (non server) version
• Runs Microsoft Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to the Portal Gateway
• SQL Database engine
• Supports Web Browser / Services
• Software Development Kit (SDK) for OEM applications available
• Supports virtually unlimited number of card holders (Disk size needs to be optimized) with a maximum of 65,000 card holders resident at any wireless reader at one time
• Multiple level password control
• 144 User defined Time Zones with 6 time intervals per Time Zone (Time Zones can cross midnight)
• 32 User-defined Holiday periods
• Unique Access levels per cardholder
• ADA compatibility
• Supports remote readers in multiple time zones
• Provides support for variable card formats and technologies to be built into the application
• Diagnostics built in for Portal Gateway signal strength, preventive maintenance, and Wireless Reader and firmware support

Portal Gateway Availabe Features:

• Secure Socket Layer communications between the Portal Gateway and host
• AES 128 Bit Encryption to the wireless readers
• Up to 300 foot communication range (reader to gateway)
• Gateway to Gateway communication for range extension
• Metal key lock cabinet with tamper switch
• 1 non-dedicated I/O port for OEM applications
• Ethernet 10/100 BaseT
• 1 USB port
• Tamper Alarm
• AC Power fail detect
• Standby power and charger for a 12 VDC 4.5 AMP battery
• Low Battery Alarm signal to host
• Low charge rate signal to the host
• Fire Alarm or Weather Alert Shutdown to Reader

Available Reader Features:

• 4 AA Battery or external power operation
• Flash memory (memory retained if power is lost)
• Keypad ID codes from 4 -10 digits
• Keypad PINs from 3-6 digits
• Card or Keypad ID plus Keypad PIN capable with the following card technologies:
  • Magnetic Stripe HI Coercivity Tracks 2 or 3
  • Proximity HID 125 KHz cards in any format
  • MIFARE 15693, ISO 14443 A
  • CAC Contact Smart Card
  • FIPS 201 DESfire contact-less smart card
• Up to 65,000 IDs per reader depending on configuration
• 144 Time Zones (Time Zones can roll past midnight)
• 32 User defined vacation periods
• An access level assignment for every cardholder
• ADA compliant
• Dynamic Memory for IDs vs Transactions
• A full audit trail stored locally and transmitted to the nearest non-dedicated Portal Gateway
• 2.4 GHz Spread Spectrum technology
• AES 128-Bit Encryption with multi-redundant portal Gateway support

Through membership in ALOA, I recently obtained the factory certification from OSI at a course they ran during ALOA Charlotte 2007.