Web-based multi-level smart card access control system on university campus

Access control is one of the most widely used smart card applications on university campus. With the increase of smart card access control applications, it's more and more inconvenient and costly to build, use and maintain traditional client-server smart card access control system. In order to solve these problems, we propose the design of a web-based multi-level smart card access control system. The system is technically featured by a single instance shared by all users on campus; the real-time and automatic data exchange between smart card management system and smart card access control system; integrated device information, access control information and access control log. With the support of the new system, we can realize the reengineering of most key managerial processes in smart card access control management. Furthermore, the business process reengineering can achieve lots of user experience, managerial and economic benefits for cardholders, smart card administrators, access control administrators and the university.

I. Introduction

Access control is one of the most widely used user identification applications of smart card on university campus. Traditional smart card access control system on university campus adopts a client-server mode in which an independent instance should be deployed for each application scenario [1]. With the increase of system instances, some management and technical problems become more and more prominent. Firstly, as cardholders must go to access control administrators to register card information when there are changes of smart cards, the user experience is not satisfied. Secondly, when cardholders do not report the loss of their smart cards timely, there are possible security problems. Thirdly, because all card information and access control information kept in the same system instance should be maintained by the same access control administrator, the burden of the administrator is quite large. Finally, there are more and more duplicate investment of software and hardware within the same university. Meanwhile, the upgrade of the system will become both difficult and expensive.