RF IDeas designs, develops and manufactures proximity and contactless reader solutions that expand building access cards to hundreds of applications. RF IDeas pioneered the use of physical access control credentials for non-door applications such as employee identification, vending and PC access control. A complete line of readers for proximity, vicinity and contactless smart card technologies are available for a wide variety of platforms. Reader platforms include USB, RS-232, TTL, RS-485, and other embedded protocols. A software platform exists for support under Windows, Unix, Linux, Macintosh, and embedded controllers. RF IDeas offers both reader components which require software, as well as complete no-software reader solutions