Introduction¶
Project Deadlock: RFID Physical Access Control System¶
... for opening doors and more.
This project aims to create an open-source system for our university that will allow ISO/IEC 14443a compatible cards (like International Student/Teacher Identification Cards) to be used for accessing doors. We want this system to be:
- Reliable and secure. The access will be granted when and only when it should be.
- Easy to use and maintain. Access rules configuration should be fast and simple. Potential failures of certain components should be quick and easy to fix.
- Fast to deploy and configure. Minimal overhead should be included in deploying this system (cables, etc...)
- Available. Hardware parts should be cheap to manufacture and components for them should either be available in the future or painlessly replaceable by their newer alternatives.
- Extensible. The whole system, including the hardware components, should be extensible to perform some function not needed right now in the future.
- Done. The project is about a year overdue. We really want this system to be done.
(I am sorry, I sound like a businessman. That’s not intentional and I’ll stop that right now.)
We will provide a complete system for managing access rules (integrated with the university’s electronic info system), and the embedded hardware and software.
(OK, I mean it this time. No more businessman)
For a more thorough discussion of the requirements see [[Requirements]].
To better understand these you can read about the [[motivation and history]] of the project here.
Under development¶
The whole system is under active* development. Some things we are talking about here do not exist yet, do no longer exist, have never existed or may never exist.
(* for the proper definition of the word active. But hey, we are doing what we can!)
Here is a Trello board you can use to monitor the development progress: https://trello.com/b/eUShodyG