Smart Card and integrated keyboard with Cherry KC 1000 SC
The increasing use of Smart Cards require compatible external readers. Cherry offers a Cherry KC 1000 SC keyboard, which incorporates a simplifying of your PC device manager.
The spread of notebook systems as an alternative to the desktop port proposals in many cases to configure a workstation that combines the portable PC mouse, keyboard and secondary display as well as to increase your productivity when you find yourself sitting at your desk.
The choice of these components is obviously a function of personal preference, but in some cases it may be a decision linked to the specific needs both personal and professional.
An example is the increasing use of Smart Cards, required by some applications and web services for user authentication and verification of its characteristics. An example is the interaction between private users with the health information management services, or to different uses of smart cards that are made within the company for the issue and the presentation of documentation.
A Cherry KC 1000 SC keyboard that incorporates a Smart Card reader is revealed, in these fields of use, a very useful addition as it allows to remove the smart card reader typically connected to the system via the USB port. In the presence of a desktop PC, a device of this type allows to extend the flexibility of use with respect to what typically offered by the keyboard of a notebook.
We got to try a solution of this type produced by Cherry, well-known company for the production of both models with keyboards for gamers is suitable to use more generic.
The Cherry KC 1000 SC is presented with a standard layout, which differs for the integration of the smart card reader at the top.
The behavior of the keyboard is the standard one for a product intended as an external device for desktop or notebook: keys from the average countered stroke, enriched by a lateral numeric keypad and by a series of additional function keys that control the opening of the calculator, the client of e-mail, browser and startup mode of the PC. A complete product from this point of view, that responds well to the typical productivity requirements of the users.
The Cherry KC 1000 SC integrated smart card reader checks the certification’s cURus, VDE GS, c-tick, VCCI, CE, FCC and FIPS 201; It is able to read and write smart cards according to ISO 7816 and is compatible with Windows operating systems, Mac OS and Linux.
The Cherry KC 1000 SC keyboard is commercially available at an estimated retail price of around $55. More information is available at this address.
- Wired security keyboard with integrated chip card terminal
- Secure PIN entry
- PC/SC smartcard reader
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