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Wiegand Message Recommendations
The Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council developed an industry recommendation to respond to requests for sample Wiegand message formats that will handle the additional fields of the Federal Agency Smart Credential Number (FASC-N) for programs that use Credential Series fields and Individual Credential Issue to identify credential holders. In addition, the recommendation defines device status messages to log field device activity. Additional Wiegand formats are defined to support this enhanced messaging along with the extra fields of the FASC-N.
The guidance in the attached document is not intended to be normative (or mandated) since some physical access control systems are not able to handle expanded message formats. It was developed to provide industry recommendations on how the Wiegand message format can be extended so that different implementations can proceed forward with guidance that industry has agreed upon.
The Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council is providing this industry recommendation to government agencies and working groups for consideration in credentialing programs.
About the Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council
The Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council is focused on accelerating the widespread acceptance, usage, and application of smart card technology for physical access control. The group brings together, in an open forum, leading users and technologists from both the public and private sectors and works on activities that are important to the physical access industry and that will address key issues that end user organizations have in deploying new physical access system technology.
The Physical Access Council includes participants from across the smart card and physical access control system industry, including end users; smart card chip, card, software and reader vendors; physical access control systems vendors; and integration service providers. Physical Access Council participation is open to any Smart Card Alliance member who wishes to contribute to the Council projects.
