YonAnn M1 Hotel Lock System

What’s The Difference between Temic 57 card and Mifare Card 

The recently 20 years ,the hotel usually adopt RFID hotel door lock for their room door instead of traditional mechanical key locks to enhance the customer experience .Which had make the RFID hotel locks industrial developed fast for the recently 20 years as well , almost all hotels adopt RFID hotel locks in nowadays . RFID is Radio Frequency Identification, and RFID hotel locks main use two type card chip in nowadays hotel industrial : Temic 57 hotel lock and Mifare hotel lock .

Temic 57 Card 

Temic 57 chip is made by ATMEL , with 330bit storage memory .

Temic 57 card is a low-cost, can readable and writable RFID card. The card only can encrypt for read and write operations. It has a working frequency 125 Khz .

Temic 57 card chip is a kind of RFID IC card with a read and write function, it also can be encrypted .

It is usually used for access control and RFID unlocking applications.

Mifare 1 Card 

Mifare is made by NXP (PHILIPS) and widely used as an RFID card with working frequency of 13.56 Mhz. Mifare cards have multi functions, so nowadays most of large and luxury hotels and offices preform Mifare hotel lock more than Temic 57 hotel lock (some fingerprint smart locks  adopt Mifare technology as well ) .

Mifare cards had wide usage like public transportation system:  metro, bus etc , city public charge : tel , water meter, (i.e. subway, bus),public toll system, financial bond, attendance management etc. Due to its wide range application and large quantity, lots of Mifare card manufacturers supply compatible Mifare cards.

Mifare card is an all purpose card: One Mifare S50 card has 16 blocks in it, like put 16 cards in this card, use this card can meet different purposes : it can achieve access control, life control, consumer management etc .

Mifare cards and other high frequency cards can’t be copied .

Compare Different on Temic 57 Hotel Lock and Mifare Hotel Lock !

Temic 57 hotel locks use T57 card chip PCB , T57 card, and T57 card encoder, 125Khz reading frequency energy saving switches .

Mifare hotel locks use Mifare chip PCB , mifare card encoder and mifare room card , Mifare energy saving switch work with 13.56 Mhz reading frequency .

Temic hotel lock can only work with the hotel lock , card and card encoder ,energy saving switch based on Temic 57 card chip , Mifare hotel lock are same , that’s Temic hotel lock and Mifare hotel lock can’t mixed use their parts together , also their hotel door lock software can’t use mix too, they can’t compared with each other .

Also for different hotel lock manufacturers and suppliers they use their own encryption ways to encrypt their cards, and each hotel lock supplier’s ways are different to make their hotel door lock software , and hotel door lock RFID cards are different , the different suppliers hotel lock system parts can’t mix work too .

When you need a RFID hotel lock, maybe you don’t know how to choose from the two different RFID hotel locks .

Here below list some difference between them : 

1) The extended applications and functions

Compared Mifare hotel lock, Temic 57 hotel lock with limited functions , it can’t use for all in one full function system , but only can  be for hotel room card to unlock the rooms .

Mifare hotel lock can not only use for door unlock , but also some extend application and functions for : access control , consumer place in hotel like SPA, restaurant and other consumers place), parking, gym …

If you hotel adopt Mifare 1 hotel lock , the room card can’t be use for room door open , in some public place access control can enter use this room card too . The hotel with consume.

T57 hotel lock and Mifare hotel lock can work with hotel elevator control system and energy saving switch .

2) Data Collect

If the hotel want to collect the unlock records data from the RFID hotel lock , it’s a little difference of the two type hotel locks . Temic hotel lock need a data collect device to collect the records from the lock inside after that connect the computer , the histories data can list in the hotel lock software can be print out .

Mifare hotel lock just use a Mifare 4K S70 large data storage card can collect the unlock records from the lock inside and the records can list in hotel lock software be print out .

3) Safety

In the hotel application, RFID Mifare hotel locks have higher security and more reliability and much more extend capability in system compared Temic 57 hotel lock .

MIFARE chip technology is the most used and mature with most stable contact-less IC card . It has strong anti-interference ability . when difference cards get together to read and write at the same , Mifare card can prevents it’s inside data being interfered for it’s has a fast anti-collision mechanism inside .

Reading and writing Mifare card inside data need the matched authorized password ,also each area of the card have it’s own password ,each block have it’s password too .

4) Working and Reading distance

In the real appliance of RFID hotel locks , Temic 57 hotel locks are different with Mifare hotel lock .

RFID hotel locks material are metal expect the front contact area , so the electronic parts will be surround by metal , this will weaken the sign launch.  Both 125Khz and 13.56Mhz signal can effect , while higher frequencies can still keep 3-5cm reading distance , and 125Khz have 1-2cm working distance .

5) Cost

The RFID hotel lock system have hotel lock ,RFID card , and card encoder , energy saving switch work with .

Compared with Temic 57 hotel lock , all Mifare hotel lock parts cost higher than Temic hotel lock ( the hotel lock , Mifare card, Mifare card encoder and energy saving switch etc )

Functions Compared Between Two RFID Hotel Lock