TWIC reader
The Emergency Management blog reported this week on the TWIC reader pilot program:
I’ve only read the summary document, but holy moly there were many glitches in the tests that were done.
- Readers that did not hold up to a marine environment
- Readers that could not take high levels of usage
- Cards that when wet would not work
- Cards that would not work in the proximity function
- Portable readers that when they got wet malfunctioned
- Operator and user training that is needed
- Problems with meshing with existing access control systems
- And, more…
The report does not give me a high level of confidence that the implementation of biometric readers is going to go smoothly. It appears to me that every installation will require a significant degree of trouble-shooting and adjustment to ensure that the system can work as it was originally designed.
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