Flint has added a new low profile, hybrid motorised card reader, with EMV approval, that fully supports chip and PIN payment. Just 36mm deep, the new Omron V2BF unit from Flint incorporates a full blade shutter across the card entry aperture helping reduce the risk of damage through physical attack and has a card capture capability. Working from the same command sets as found on the V2AF model, it incorporates new features such as power failure detection.

This has a potential to maintain the supply for three seconds enabling the reader to take emergency action before shutting down, returning the card to the take out position or capturing the card to the rear.

With a lifetime of 1.2 million passes, the V2BF ideally suits retail and banking applications, such as petrol forecourt pay-at-pump, car parking pay-on-foot collection, information kiosks and vending kiosks.

The V2BF has an operating range of 5 to 50C, uses a 12V DC supply and has RS232 interconnectivity.

Several formats are supported for reading magnetic and IC cards, including magnetic cards encoded on ISO track 1, 2 and/or 3, or in JIS II stripe card format, and T=0, T=1 and EMV (Europay-Master-Visa) 3.1.1 chip card protocols, as well as memory cards with Siemens 4442, 4428 and 4432 chips.