Magnetic
swipe card readers are probably the most widely used form of swipe
card reader utilising the middle track (Track 2) of a standard ISO
(International Standards Organisation) magnetic stripe plastic
"credit" card.
ISO
standard degrees the use of all three tracks of these cards
originally expected to be used by banking and retails sectors.
Cards
are generally encoded by two methods one being Low Coercivity (LoCo)
and the other High Coercivity (HiCo). LoCo means low magnetism is
used to code the cards and is used for short lived cards encoded by
low cost equipment. HiCo cards are just the opposite usually supplied
pre-encoded by suppliers of systems of Access Control or T & A,
or point of Sale products.
MR
readers from Indala make an impressive array of smart internal and
external quality swipe card readers |