Chapter 8
204 Kaba Ilco Lodging Access Control System
The FDU will prompt the insertion of blank keycards until the number of
keycards requested using the PMS has been encoded.
If a keycard is never swiped, once the PMS delay specified in Section 3.9 part 9
– FDU Time-outs has expired, the following message will appear:
To complete the registration, an authorization keycard or valid PIN will have
to be used, and the previous steps redone using the PMS in order to create the
guest's keycard in PMS mode.
8.2 POS Interface
As described in Section 2.8 – Interfaces, the POS interface is a special model of the FDU
using a triple track encoder, which writes ABA standard (open-architecture)
information on track 2 of the magnetic stripe keycard, and uses the remaining tracks for
the encrypted keycard code needed by the system.
The ABA track 2 information is compatible with existing point-of-sale readers.
Some properties make use of the folio number to post charges to the guest's
account, but any numeric data that can be sent to the FDU by the PMS can be used, or
a numeric code can be entered manually. Call Kaba Ilco for assistance to configure the
PMS and the FDU to encode the information required by the property on track 2.
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