Credential Types

Credential Types is a licensed feature enabling the Protege WX system to use license plate, barcode, QR code, biometric and smart card data to identify users. Credential Types are created within Protege WX and applied to custom Door Types as the Entry or Exit Reading Mode. The third-party device or software used to collect the credential data is configured as a Smart Reader, with the data sent through to the controller via the onboard RS-485 reader ports or via Ethernet.

Configuration

• Format: The data sent to the Protege WX controller by the third-party device. Supported formats include:

  • Unicode: The credential data sent to the controller uses two bytes to represent each character as per the Unicode standard.
  • UTF8: The credential data sent to the controller uses a variable number of bytes to represent each character as per the UTF-8 standard.
  • ASCII: The credential data sent to the controller uses a single byte to represent each character as per the ASCII standard.
  • Numeric: The credential data sent to the controller is a binary number composed of up to 8 bytes. The bytes are ordered using little endian.
  • Hexadecimal: The credential data is sent to the controller as an array of binary numbers. When the specific credential is entered into the user programming for each user, the format used is hexadecimal with the numbers 0-9 and letters A-F representing each nibble of the credential.

  • Wiegand: The credential data sent to the controller is composed of a Wiegand bit stream.

    This bit stream can be encoded in numerous different ways and a format descriptor must be included in the Wiegand or TLV Format field. For the Wiegand format the preceding, trailing and prefix character settings and case sensitive setting are ignored.

  Controllers support all credential type formats via either RS-485 or ethernet. Reader expanders only support Wiegand credential types.

• Preceding Characters: The maximum number of characters to be ignored at the start of the data packet being sent to the application.

  This setting is determined by the third-party device/application.

• Trailing Characters: The maximum number of characters to be ignored at the end of the data packet being sent to the application.

  This setting is determined by the third-party device/application.

• Prefix: The characters that are required at the start of the credential data packet sent to the controller.

  This setting is determined by the third-party device/application.

• Case Sensitive: Defines whether the data is case sensitive or not