Re: Filing Cabinets That Use Electronic Access?

["W" <persistentone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Bill" <billnomailnospamx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "W"  wrote in message
>>I have been looking for years for any vendor that makes a high quality
>>office filing cabinet that allows access by a programmable passcard
>>system. Keyed access as a backup is fine.
>>
>> I want this because keys get lost, and you end up with so many keys for
>> so many cabinets that it becomes hard to track them all.
>>
>> As obvious as this application is, I have looked for years for this and
>> cannot find it.    I have tried various locksmiths and asked them to
>> retrofit Hon brand lateral cabinets, but all of them claim they don't
>> know how to do it and the locks are hard to match to the cabinet.
>>
>> I want to check back once a year to see if any manufacturer has decided
>> to enter the 21st century yet.      Does any manufacturer have a unit
>> close to what I describe?
>>
>
> I've not seen any.
>
> You could hire a "microcontroller programmer" to do this for you here...
> http://forums.parallax.com/forum.php
>
> Ask in the "Parallax Semiconductor" discussion area. They have access
> there to "RFID tags" and readers.
>
> And you would need an existing filing cabinet which had an electronic
> combination lock which could then be modified. These guys are very good at
> the electronics/programming end, but may not be good at designing the
> electric-mechanical locking mechanism. So best if that is already in place
> so it could be modified.
>
> And if you come up with a working design, perhaps you and the person you
> find could approach a filing cabinet manufacturer. Maybe they would decide
> to manufacture it and make all the parts "look pretty"?

I can't get into the idea of a real-time software development project and
custom hardware retrofit to prototype a commercial project, just so we can
have 20 office filing cabinets with passcards for internal use.

I toyed with the idea of using CyberLock - which puts intelligence into the
lock and cleverly powers up the lock with a battery in the key.   But even
with the dozens of locks that CyberLock offers, none of those apparently
fits off the shelf onto a standard Hon or other popular brand lateral filing
cabinet.    I contacted CyberLock specialists, and none offered much hope of
retrofitting a Hon lateral filing cabinet.

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W