At your work or school, there’s a good chance that you need to swipe an RFID badge for access to certain rooms or buildings. We normally don’t consider the mechanics behind it, expecting the doors to “magically” open for us.
If, however, you’re in the business of programming these devices, you may want a way to see who’s swiped in and out via WiFi. This clever upgrade package makes this possible, using an ESP8266 module to log and transmit this data, and can be inserted into a reader unit to upgrade its performance. Conveniently, the device draws power from the reader unit itself, meaning it doesn’t need its own battery.
While this could be used in security assessments, simply checking to see if a reader is programmed properly at your bench would be quite useful as well. In addition to RFID readers, this board can interface with nearly any device featuring a standard Wiegand interface, including pin pads, mag stripe devices, and biometric readers.
It’s also capable of transmitting data to the reader, but this is an experimental feature, and is currently unsupported. If you’re wondering what using this device actually looks like in practice, be sure to check out the video below:
