Want to know hotel key card?
Magnetic Stripe Card & RFID Card for Hotel
There are 2 systems that hotel uses for the locks
Here is a simple way to determine whether you are using a magnetic stripe card or RFID card.
1, Check if there is an arrow at the front;
2, Check if there is a black (sometimes brown, silver or gold, even other colors) magnetic stripe at the back side.
If both yes, then it’s a magnetic stripe card.
If you can’t see anyting on the card body – even if sometimes you can see an arrow on the front – you are using a RFID card.
In fact, there is a simple way to double confirm, put the card to the light, you would see the copper antenna, that’s RFID card.
Hotel Key Card
Huyida provides hotel key card for not only the locking systems such as Saflok, Kaba, Onity, MIWA, Salto, llco, Vingcard, etc.
Widely used magnetic stripe card for hotel key card:
300 Oe, 650 Oe and 2750 Oe.
Widely used RFID chip for hotel key card:
Atmel T5577;
NXP Mifare Classic 1K (for guest);
NXP Mifare Classic 4k (for staff);
NXP Mifare Ultralight EV1;
Fudan FM11RF08. (F08, fully compatible to NXP Mifare 1K, but the price is much cheaper, highly recommended)
How to know the magstripe or rfid chip type?
If you are asking whether we are able to tell you which magstripe or chip type of the key card is if we know the locking system the hotel is using.
The answer is No. Different hotels may use different chips or magnetic stripes even if they are using the same locking system.
We need 2 types of sample cards for testing:
1, One card that the hotel is already used;
2, One card that the hotel never used.
Once we’ve tested the cards, we will get to know what kind of magstripe or RFID chip we nee to use for the key card. (2 pcs each would be the best.)
Don’t worry if you don’t have any cards in your hand, contact us for a sample pack to test in the hotel. Normally, we provide preprinted cards with magnetic stripe or RFID chip only without encoding. The hotel will encode each hotel card with an encoder, only an encoder key card could open the corresponding door.
Hotels change their key card frequently in order to maintain their image branding, which also pushes the cost higher – especially when the chip they are using happens to be an expensive one.