Multi-Technology Smart Card

Crescendo is a multi-technology smart card.

Crescendo is a credit card-sized card that enables logical and physical access control, also serving as an employee ID badge.

An embedded contact smart chip is used for logical access control. To meet the needs of current physical access control customers, Crescendo can be customized with the "physical access control" technologies you choose including:

1. Proximity (HID, Indala®, and others)
2. iCLASS®
3. MIFARE®
4. DESFire®
5. Multi-technology combinations
6. Magnetic stripe

Crescendo smart cards are available off-the-shelf. Cost and lead times are reduced with three off-the-shelf cards, including:

1. iCLASS® and HID proximity (physical access control) with contact smart chip (logical access control)
2. iCLASS® and HID proximity (physical access control) with magnetic stripe (other applications) and contact smart chip (logical access control)
3. MIFARE® (physical access control) with contact smart chip (logical access control)  

Choose the Crescendo smart card that is compatible with your existing physical access control system. All Crescendo cards will support your logical access needs.