Card guards access

Press, 11 January 1983, Page 19

Card guards access

The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr lan Shearer, demonstrates a New Zealand-made card access control system at the system’s official launching in Wellington. The system, called Cardax, has been developed by Production Engineering, Ltd, of Marton. It restricts access to holders of a magnetic card. The card is inserted into a machine attached to a safe or a security door and a personal identification number is punched into the

machine’s microcomputer, which then matches it to a code printed on the card. If the two match the controlled door is unlocked. The system can be used to control a single door, a whole building, or to provide a complete access monitoring system controlling up to 50’exit points. Dr Shearer described Cardax as a product with exciting potential that demonstrated the technical ingenuity and innovative flair of New Zealand’s small but fast growing electronics industry.

, The Minister said eleci Ironies was set to earn about 1 S3OM in export receipts this 1 year, and he predicted that at present , rates of growth, ) the industry could, by the i 19905, be returning New Zea-, : land more than the present’ boom industry, kiwifruit. i “New Zealand has the; proven capacity to build a i world-scale electronics in-| dustry based on a unique! range of products that re-1 fleet our Kiwi expertise in! areas like agriculture, com-! munications, transport, and! medicine," Dr Shearer said.