I’ve been working on connecting to our Bioscript readers…bio metric entry devices. You can upload thumb templates one way…standing at the device with an RS232 cable…not ideal!
What I did was install some RS232 to IP converters. These guys are a little over a eighty bucks each, but they are well worth the money. They map a virtual com port over to a windows or linux machine. This allows us to administer the readers from anywhere! These guys will take up to 24 volt DC so you could use a standard PoE injector, but that’s not any fun!
What I did was to create a couple of special cables. One injects the 24 volts on the brown and blue wires of our cat5 cable, the other stubby wire breaks them back out.
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