Open source system for swipe card access?
- by Moduspwnens
We're looking at replacing our campus-wide magnetic swipe card system with something more robust. The "programmer" side of me says there's got to be an open-source, scalable solution that already does this, but all I've been able to find are proprietary vendor-specific solutions.
Ideally, it'd have the following:
Based on some open standard that allows us to select from a wide selection of card readers (like IMAP or HTTP)
Support different kinds of card access (magnetic strip, RFIDs, etc.)
Future-proof (to the extent possible)
The lack of information I'm finding leads me to believe I'm not searching for the right things... or such a solution doesn't exist. Is there not some basic, open-source solution to this (like MySQL for databases, or Moodle for an LMS, or Apache for a web server)?