Mobile Access Control System Based on RFID Tags And Facial Information
This work addresses security and cost issues for small to medium-sized companies, but it is incremental as it combines existing technologies like RFID and facial verification in a new application.
The authors tackled the problem of high-cost access control systems by introducing a low-cost alternative that uses passive RFID tags and smartphone-based NFC for authorization, combined with facial photograph verification to enhance security, achieving reduced installation costs while maintaining good security.
Better access control system security comes at a higher price. It many cases the price is too high for small companies, leaving them vulnerable with cheap and insecure systems. In this work we introduce an alternative access control scheme, which improves access control security while lowering the cost. In the proposed model, passive RFID tags are mounted near a turnstile or a smart door. Tag reading and programming is done via NFC chip directly on the users smartphone. To enhance security, together with smartphone-based authorization we require the user to provide his photograph while entering a secure gate. The photograph is then displayed on a monitoring dashboard side-by-side with the registration picture, so that the two can be matched against each other. The developed client-server application offers administrative system used to configure gate access policies and monitor entrances with filters by access time, user and gate. Also, we propose a mobile application that allows gate registration and serves as a door unlock key. The suggested access control model reduces installation costs required, while maintaining good security. The system is fully wireless and uses cheap autonomous RFID-tags as its main component. We hope, that the proposed system architecture will find its application in small to medium-sized companies.