That is pretty hard core there James. I love it. I'd love to keep in the loop as you develop the system. I was more looking for off the shelf solutions I could recommend folks when they ask us about security and such. I'd like to know what folks are doing or if most people just hand out physical keys.
Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM, j. p. sweeney < [email protected]> wrote: > Jacob, > > We're finishing up a custom fab system that ties directly into out user > authentication system. We've gone through several revisions (arduino based > initially, now we're Make Controller derived, with other off the shelf > components and some custom PCBs) that is powered via PoE (makes wiring for > installation a relative ease) and very nicely allows us to programmatically > enforce limited access memberships, grant access to meeting rooms based on > reservations, really just do what ever kind of access restriction you want > to program. > > The doors hardware itself we're getting ready to open source. The > authentication calls are all JSON based using AES encryption, so the > hardware is pretty easy to interface with whatever you want to use on the > auth server side. > > We opted to keep our authentication on an external website because we have > a nice little load balanced firewall with auto fail over (A nice little atom > based system running pfSense. Lots of functionality on the cheap). If the > internet is down, the space isn't terribly usable from a work stand point, > so losing access isn't much of a concern. That, and with the auto-failover, > we're pretty fault tolerant as it is. We're looking at setting up a small > internal caching server that can do authentication internally, but there > hasn't really been a need as of yet. > > And price per door has wound up being about $150 or so, not too bad. > > James > > Workantile Exchange > http://workantile.com > > > On 27 Jan 2010, at 12:15, Jacob Sayles wrote: > > Hello, > > This got brought up a few days ago and it got me thinking. How many places > have electronic door lock systems? We installed an ISONAS system and are > pretty happy with it. It's cheaper then a traditional closed circuit system > but it still ran about $4-5K. I'm wondering what other folks have. > > Jacob > > --- > Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation > http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
