Posts Tagged ‘cards’
keys?
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Keys are annoying. They are heavy, awkward and occasionally jab me in the leg. Maybe it’s my fault for accumulating so many keys in the first place but let’s take a look at what’s going on in my pocket.
Breakdown: It seems like everything has a lock on it and if you are like me and live in an apartment, you probably have 3-4 keys to get thru different doors, mail, gym and other things. If you tack on keys for work, car, parents house, we are talking about a heavy heavy load to be carrying around in your pocket. Even with many buildings now using key fobs or card readers, there are too many of these to keep track of as well.
Solution: Every office building, apartment complex, personal homes, universities and clubs (i.e. tennis, gym, dorms) installs a universal card or key fob reader (might have to be mandated by the government 
) . There is a need to create free open source software that lets individuals and corporations program these cards or fobs. Ideally, users would set up their own cards/fobs with their name and a unique password string that identifies each person. So essentially one card or fob can be used on any door in city provided that they get permission from the owner, (who must enter in their unique password string into their system). No more keys!!! All of them replaced by ONE fob to enter in any building, apt, office, and gym.
