Mifare Lock VS Temic Lock: What’s the Difference?

Today, the most common in hotel door locks is RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology. RFID non-contact door locks not only bring convenience to hotel managers but also enhance the guest experience. The RFID hotel lock is mainly used with a Mifare card and a Temic card. In today’s guide, we will explore the difference between Mifare lock and Temic lock in detail, read on to know more.

1. What is the Mifare lock

First, Mifare is a family of integrated circuit (IC) chips for contactless smart and proximity cards. Mifare lock is a door lock using this chip. Apart from this, Mifare products are also embedded in contactless and contact smart cards, smart paper tickets, wearable devices, and mobile phones.

2. What is Temic lock

In fact, the Temic lock and Mifare lock are almost the same, they are both types of RFID door locks, and they just use different technology to open the door lock. Temic card is a low-cost, readable, and writable radio frequency IC card. Temic lock is made of high-quality stainless steel, it has a minimum sensing distance of 20 mm. Usually suitable for wooden doors, fire doors, metal doors, etc.

3. Mifare Lock VS Temic Lock

• Working frequency: Mifare lock uses a Mifare card, its working frequency is 13.56Mhz. Temic lock uses a Temic card, its working frequency is 125Khz.
• PCB: After investigation and research, the PCB of the Mifare lock is better than that of the Temic lock. Because the Mifare lock uses the Mifare card, and the Temic lock uses the Temic card.
• Application: Compared with the Temic card, the Mifare card has a wider range of applications.

For example, Mifare cards can be applied to automatic fare collection systems, access management, library cards, membership cards, public transportation systems (such as subways, and buses), urban public fees (such as telephones, water meters), public charging systems, financial bonds, attendance management Access control systems, hotel keyless entry system and consumption system. In addition, if the Mifare hotel you ordered has an access control system, then you can use the Mifare hotel card for access. If the hotel you ordered has a restaurant or a bath center, you can also use the Mifare hotel card for consumption.

Mifare card perfectly combines access control system and consumption system on one card, one Mifare S50 card is equivalent to putting 16 cards into one chip. This brings great convenience to both management and use. Because of this function, the Mifare card is called “one card”. The widespread use and shortage of Mifare cards have led to many manufacturers providing Mifare-compatible cards.

However, the Temic card cannot be used in consumer systems, it can only be used as a hotel room card to open the door lock. And the price of Temic access control is a bit high. If you do not want the hotel key card to be used as a hotel “all-in-one card”, it is recommended that you choose Temic Hotel.

• Sensing distance: We all know that the Mifare lock uses a Mifare card to unlock the door, and the Mifare card uses non-contact induction. That is to say, it can be unlocked without bringing the card close to the door lock, generally more than 3 to 5 centimeters.

Temic locks use Temic cards to unlock doors. However the Temic card needs to be inserted into the card slot of the card reader, and the sensing distance needs to be less than 2 cm.

• Cost: The cost of the Mifare lock and Temic lock is also different. The Mifare lock uses the Mifare 4 S70 card, which costs $8 each. The Temic lock uses a data collector, and the cost of this data collector is 70 US dollars, which is relatively high.
• Security: The mifare card, as an inductive smart IC card, is currently the most widely used card with the most stable performance and the largest memory capacity in the world. It is a logical encryption card, data stream encrypted transmission, and two-way authentication mechanism of 3 times mutual authentication, which has very high security.

The Mifare card is divided into multiple fan-shaped areas, and each fan-shaped area is protected by a separate key in various forms, which is difficult for hackers to crack.

A Temic card is a kind of radio frequency IC card, the card only has encryption control for writing operation. Security is not as high as the Mifare card.

4. Temic card VS Mifare card

5. Conclusion

All in all, Mifare locks and Temic locks are generally used for hotel door locks. So, as a hotel manager, how to choose these two kinds of door locks? Please choose according to the needs of the hotel and the door lock system. Among them, it is very important to choose a door lock that matches the hotel door lock system. This is the key factor to ensure the normal operation of the door lock. After reading this article, do you have a better understanding of the difference between Mifare locks and Temic locks? If you have other questions to consult, please contact iLockey.