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125kHz Card Technology

  • RF Energy is constantly emitted from the reader
  • When a card comes within this field of energy, it is powered up and transmits its card number
  • The reader picks this transmission up, decodes it and sends it over the cable as data
  • The data that is transmitted by the card is not encrypted and is always the same
  • Data transfer is one way only. The reader is not able to communicate with the card.