MORX BioFace MSD5K Mini Face Recognition Attendance Terminal, 4 Inch

Overview

The MORX BioFace MSD5K Mini is a compact face recognition terminal that records attendance and can open a door as people walk up to it, recognising them from 0.5 to 2.5 m away. It also accepts an ID card or a PIN. With a 4 inch touchscreen and room for 5,000 faces, it suits offices, schools, clinics, shops and factories that want touchless attendance from a small wall-mounted unit.

Is it right for you?

• It suits a single entrance or attendance point where up to 5,000 people need to be recognised by face, card or PIN.
• It is rated 0 to 45 °C and 20 to 90% humidity, so mount it indoors or under cover, not on an exposed outdoor wall.
• If you also want fingerprint or QR code identification and mask detection, the BioFace MSD5K (the full-size model) adds those.
• If you need more than 5,000 faces, the BioFace MSD20K holds 20,000.

Key features

• 5,000 faces, 5,000 cards and 5,000 passwords, with 500,000 logs, so records build up for a long time between downloads.
• 1 MP colour camera plus 1 MP infrared camera with live detection, so a photo or video held up to the terminal is rejected.
• Recognition in under 0.2 s, with a quoted accuracy of 99.70%.
• Wide dynamic range and automatic fill light, so faces are still recognised in strong light, backlight or darkness.
• Wired network (TCP/IP), Wi-Fi and USB 2.0, so logs can go to software over the network or be copied by USB drive.
• 4 inch HD touchscreen, Linux 4.19 on an ARM Cortex-A7 processor with 256 MB RAM and 4 GB storage.
• Lock output, doorbell output and Wiegand input and output, so it can control a door directly or pass card data to a separate access control panel.

What else you need

• A 12 V DC, 2 A power supply.
• For door control: an electromagnetic (EM) lock or electric strike and an exit button, wired to the lock output.
• A network cable or Wi-Fi connection if you want logs sent to attendance software; otherwise logs can be copied by USB drive.
• Attendance software, either local or web-based cloud, if you want reports rather than raw logs.

Installation

An access control installer should mount it indoors or under cover at face height, wire the power, lock and exit button, and connect it to the network. With live detection switched on the working distance is 0.5 to 1.5 m, so position the terminal where people approach it directly.

Software and licences

The terminal works with local and web-based cloud attendance software. No licence is stated for the terminal itself.

Before you buy

• ID card reading is standard and IC card reading is optional, so tell us which card type you use.
• With live detection on, the recognition distance drops from 0.5 to 2.5 m to 0.5 to 1.5 m.
• Rated 0 to 45 °C, so it needs an indoor or covered position.