Alberici Lynx cbn cctalk italy User manual

LettoreditessereLYNXCBNcctalk

Lettore card LYNX CBN

ccTalk

AES

256

LYNX CBN cctalk Italy Card Reader

Operator Manual

Rev. 1.02

LYNX CBN cctalk Italy

Reader for IC / Magnetic stripe / NFC Cards

Operator Manual

CONTENTS

Package content

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View of the product

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Product description

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Warning

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Installation

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Operation

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Communication protocol

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Maintenance

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Maintenance

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10.

Customer service

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STORICO REVISIONI

Revisione n°

Data

Modifica

Note

Creazione

11.12.18

Creazione

Rev. 1.01

26.06.19

Nuovi comandi ccTalk FFA2 - FFA3xxyy - FFABxx - FFABxxssnn

Fw A1.0.6

Rev. 1.02

30.09.19

Nuovi comandi ccTalk FFAD07 , FFAD08, FFAD24 (abilitazioni

supplementari lettura chip)

Fw VA1.11 (LYNX hw 1)

Fw VA2.04 (LYNX hw 2)

NOTICE

This manual has been drafted with the utmost care. Nevertheless, it is not possible to guarantee at all times the

absolute correspondence of the descriptions contained therein with the actual characteristics of the product.

Alberici S.p.A. declines any and all responsibility towards the User with reference to damages, losses, or claims of

third parties, resulting from the use of the product or caused by incorrect interpretations of this manual.

Alberici S.p.A. reserves the right to modify, without prior notice and in any way, any part of this manual and the

technical specifications of this product, as part of the continuous pursuit of improvement of its products.

CH-AC01

Dear Customer,

we would like to thank you and congratulate for your choice. We trust that you will appreciate the quality and

performance of the LYNX card reader. This system communicates by cctalk protocol, AES 256 encrypted by the

Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol.

Package content

The package contains

- theLYNX BCN reader for magnetic stripes,chip and NFC cards;art. ref.Is

LC-L1AC

the Operator manual (this manual)

This product has been packed with the utmost care. In the case that you receive it damaged or incomplete, please

notify immediately your findings to the Carrier, and ask him to record your findings on the delivery receipt.

All packaging material must be recycled or disposed of in compliance with your local applicable laws.

View of the product

Lynx Card Reader with its faceplate

Product description

3.1 Generals

This device can read magnetic stripe cards (ISO7810, ISO7811 standard), or cards with integrated microchip

(IC) (ISO7816 standard). It can also read in contactless mode using NFC technology.

The card must be introduced and withdrawn manually. The reading takes place while the card is inserted.

Communication with the machine control board takes place via ccTalk interface.

The contact pins for reading the chip are controlled by soft clamping springs, preventing from possible deterioration.

When the card is inserted into the reader, it detects the tax code contained in the magnetic stripe or in the micro-chip,

and transmits the data required by the master card. For example, in the case of machines whose use is forbidden to

non-age people, the data relating to the age of majority shall be pertinent. Information on the date of birth can be

obtained from the magnetic stripe. Additional data can be obtained by reading the micro-chip: tax code, name,

surname, gender, common birth, municipality of residence.

Note: Memory Cards or Smart cards are typically used for identification or to manage complex data sets. The former

are mainly used for applications of low complexity ,such as prepaid cards, loyalty cards, etc.. The commands are

sequences of bytes encapsulated in a serial protocol. Smart cards are usually reserved for applications requiring a

higher level of security.

Please read carefully this handbook, to obtain the most from this product.

+12 Vcc (+/-5%)

3.2 Compatible cards

The IC card (microchip) must comply with the ISO 7816 standards (providing size and positions of the 8 contacts).

The physical features of the magnetic card must comply with ISO 7810 and ISO 7811:

- dimensions: 85.60 × 53.98 mm (see ISO7810 ID-1)

- relief: see ISO7811-1, -3

- recording format: (see ISO7811-2, -4, -5, -6)

3.3 Technical specs

Alimentazione / Power Supply

12 / 24 Vcc (+/- 5%)

Assorbimento/ Current consumption

300 mA (picco/peak)

Temperatura e Umidità operative /

WorkingTemperatureandHumidity

0-50 °C

10-90% RH (non condens.)

I.F. Comunicazione / Communication I.F.

ccTalk + protocollo di cifratura Diffie-Hellmann AES 256

Standard ISO / Card ISO standard

Carta IC / IC-Card: ISO7816

Tessera Magnetica / Magnetic card:

ISO7810, ISO7811

Vita utile / Expected working life

Operazioni testina magnetica / Magnetic Head operations: min. 200.000

Contatti carta IC / IC-Card pins: min. 500.000 operazioni / operations

Dimensioni / Size

Vedi quote in sezione 5.1 / Check section 5.1

Peso / Weight

104 gr.

3.4 Available functions

- Reads magnetic stripe cards 3-band (reads only 2nd band, containing the Tax Code)

- Reads IC cards (also known as microchip or Smart Card)

- Reads proximity cards (contactless) by NFC technology

Warning

1 - Follow the instructions of this manual

2 - Disconnect the power supply before performing any maintenance

3 - Use your device in the range of temperature / humidity recommended

4 - While the device is in operation, do not allow any object to come into contact with the magnetic

head or its connector, or errors may occur in reading

5 - Do not expose to dust, sand, chemical vapor, or spray water or other liquids

6 - Install preferably indoor

7 - Do not clean components with thinner or organic solvents

8 - Be careful to insert the card in the right direction: the IC Card must be introduced face up, the Magnetic stripe card must be

slipped in face down to the right.

Installation

5.1

Dimensions

The front panel of the LYNX reader can be positioned outside or inside the cabinet.

Its snap-in/clip-out system easily delivers the reader body in hand for any quick maintenance operation.

5.2

Connections

5.2.1

ccTalk socket pin-out

Operation

When the card reader is in stand-by, its LEDs light up in still blue color.

While the card is being introduced into the reader slot, the LEDs light up in still yellow color.

When the card has been completely inserted to the bottom end, two cases are possible:

1. the reader recognizes the card and reads the data: the LEDs light up green. They remain lit in green for about 4 seconds.

Then they turn off and stay off as long as the card stays inside the reader.

2. the reader does not recognize the card, or it fails reading the card data: the LEDs light up red, as long as the card remains

inside the reader.

When the card is removed, the LEDs light up again in still blue.

On reset, no card or foreign body must be inside the reader. If on reset the reader detects the presence of a card, the error

status will be shown by the LEDs flashing in red colour (one flash per second). The LEDs colour will be restored to still blue, and

the player returns to stand-by condition, only when the card is removed.

Communication protocol

ccTalk communication commands

- Baud rate (BPS): default 9600 BPS

- Default ccTalk specific address = 0x33 (can be changed by header 251 Address change)

7.1 Extracting the date of birth (full age control)

Send the "Read date of birth" command at intervals from the master to the reader (see header FFA0 in section 7.2).

The reader replies NACK until the card gets inserted.

When the card is inserted and recognized (date of birth available), the reader will respond to the master with the date of

birth from the card, as long as the card remains inside the reader. If instead the reader CANNOT read the inserted

card,

the device shall respond by only one byte = 255.

The reader shall reply by NACK upon removal of the card.

Please note: if the card bears only the magnetic stripe (no chip), the date of birth returned to the host shall not include

information about the Century: the year will be shown as a value between 0 and 99.

Examples:

date of birth 10/1/1990: with chip reading, year format = 1990 / magnetic stripe reading only, year format = 90;

date of birth 12/12/1973: with chip reading, year format = 1973 / magnetic stripe reading only, year format = 73;

date of birth 17/7/2009: with chip reading, year format = 2009 / magnetic stripe reading only, year format = 09.

Advanced implementations:

For more sophisticated implementations, the following two "auxiliary" commands are available for the master to send:

- FFAE: reading the status of the card (absent, recognized, not recognized);

- FFAF: request for a light signal to remind the User that he must remove the card (the reader flashes yellow until the

card is removed).

7.2 Specific Commands of the Lynx reader

- header FFA0 –Read birth date

replies NACK if card is absent or not detected;

replies 4 byte with birth date, if card is inside the reader and is recognized;

replies 1 byte = 255, if card is inside the reader but it is not recognized.

Transmitted data : <none>

Received data : [anno MSB] [anno LSB] [mese] [giorno]

day: value 1 … 31

month: value 1 … 12

year = [MSB]*256+[LSB]

Please note! If the year data is read from magnetic stripe, its value will be returned as 0.. 99 (no Century information).

Ex. of full reading from the chip:

TX > 33 01 01 FF A0 2C

RX < 01 04 33 00 07 C6 01 0A F0

year = 0x07C6 = 1990

month = 0x01 = 1 (January)

day = 0x0A = 10

Ex. of full reading from magnetic stripe:

TX > 33 01 01 FF A0 2C

RX < 01 04 33 00 00 49 0C 0C 67

year = 0x0049 = 73

month = 0x0C = 12 (December)

day = 0x0C = 12

Ex. of card not recognized/not detected:

TX > 33 01 01 FF A0 2C

RX < 01 01 33 00 FF CC

- header FFA001 - Read birth date (ASCII)

This command is alternative to the FFA0 command; the reader will return the date in ASCII format:

replies NACK if card is absent or not recognized / not detected;

replies 8 byte birth date if card is inside the reader and is recognized.

Transmitted data: [01]

Received data: 8 ASCII characters (4 = year, 2 = month, 2 = day)

Example of full reading from chip:

TX > 33 02 01 FF A0 01 2A

RX < 01 08 33 00 31 39 39 30 30 31 31 30 2F

year = 0x31 0x39 0x39 0x30 = '1' '9' '9' '0'

month = 0x30 0x31 = '0' '1'

day = 0x31 0x30 = '1' '0'

Example of full reading from magnetic stripe:

TX > 33 02 01 FF A0 01 2A

RX < 01 08 33 00 30 30 37 33 31 32 31 32 34

year = 0x30 0x30 0x37 0x33 = '0' '0' '7' '3'

month = 0x31 0x32 = '1' '2'

day = 0x31 0x32 = '1' '2'

- header FFA2 –Read Card settings

(available from v. A1.0.6 up)

Replies 2 bytes showing the existing settings with regards to activations and to priorities of the source files (chip/magnetic

stripe).

Transmitted data : <none>

Received data : [activation window][reading priority]

[activation window] :

Bit 0 - magnetic stripe (0: disabled; 1: enabled)

Bit 1 - chip (0: disabled; 1: enabled)

[reading priority] = 1: magnetic stripe priority

2: chip priority

Esxample:

TX > 33 01 01 FF A2 2A

RX < 01 02 33 00 03 01 C6

(03=chip and magnetic stripe enabled; 01=priority to magnetic stripe)

- header FFA3xxyy –Modify Card settings

(available from v. A1.0.6 up)

This command allows to modify the existing settings with regards to activations and to priorities of the source files

(chip/magnetic stripe).

WARNING! Once made, modifications are permanent (the new settings get saved in non-volatile memory).

Transmitted data : [activation window][reading priority]

Received data : ACK

[activation window] :

Bit 0 - magnetic stripe (0: disabled; 1: enabled)

Bit 1 - chip (0: disabled; 1: enabled)

[reading priority] = 1: magnetic stripe priority

2: chip priority

Example:

TX > 33 03 01 FF A3 01 01 25

(01= magnetic stripe enabled, chip disabled; 01= priority to magnetic stripe)

RX > 01 00 33 00 CC

- header FFABxx –Read number of characters of the Magnetic stripe partition track

(available from v. A1.0.6 up)

Replies the number of the characters that are detected as available in the requested partition track;

replies NACK if the card is not inserted, or if the requested data are not available.

Pay attention: the number of characters includes all the available ones (including, if present, ‘start’, ‘end’, ‘LRC’).

Transmitted data : [track index]

Received data : [number of characters]

[track index] = 01: track 1

02: track 2

[number of characters] = amount of available characters

Examples:

TX > 33 02 01 FF AB 01 1F (track 1)

RX < 01 01 33 00 21 AA (number of characters track 1 = 0x21)

TX > 33 02 01 FF AB 02 1E (traccia 2)

RX < 01 01 33 00 17 B4 (number of characters track 2 = 0x17)

- header FFABxxssnn - Read the characters of the Magnetic stripe partition track

(available from v. A1.0.6 up)

Replies the ASCII characters read in the requested partition track;

replies NACK if the card is not inserted, or if the requested data are not available..

Pay attention: the number of characters includes all the available ones (including, if present, ‘start’, ‘end’, ‘LRC’).

Transmitted data : [track index][index of first character][number of characters]

Received data : ASCII

[track index] = 01: track 1

02: track 2

[index of first character] = index (base 0=zero) of start reading position

[number of requested characters] = 0: ALL the available characters;

> 0: number of requested characters

Notice: if the number of the requested characters is higher than the number of the available characters, only the available

characters will be returned –therefore the number of returned characters will be less than the requested number.

Examples:

TX > 33 04 01 FF AB 01 01 10 0C

reading of track 1; starting from index 1; 16 characters)

RX < 01 10 33 00 50 47 4E 4E 44 52 37 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** A5

(PGNNDR7*********)

TX > 33 04 01 FF AB 02 00 00 1C

reading of track 2; starting from first character, index 0; ALL characters)

RX < 01 17 33 00 3B 38 30 33 38 30 30 30 30 38 30 30 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 33 3F 35 0B

(;80380000800********3?5)

- header FFAE –Read Card status

Transmitted data : <none>

Received data : [status of the card]

[status of the card] = 0 : card is absent;

1 : card is inside the reader and it is recognized ( = birth date available);

255: card is inside the reader, but it is not recognized.

Example:

TX > 33 01 01 FF AE 1E

RX < 01 01 33 00 00 CB (card is absent)

Example:

TX > 33 01 01 FF AE 1E

RX < 01 01 33 00 01 CA (card is inside the reader and it is recognized)

Example:

TX > 33 01 01 FF AE 1E

RX < 01 01 33 00 FF CC (card is inside the reader, but it is not recognized)

- header FFAF –Request Card Removal (light signal alert)

Transmitted data : <none>

Received data : [statuis of the card] (see command FFAE)

This command is active when the card is inserted into the reader; the purpose of this command is to attract the User's

attention and warn her/him not to forget to remove the card from the reader: upon receipt of this command, the LEDs will

flash yellow until the card has completely been removed.

If the card has already been removed, the command will have no effect.

Example:

TX > 33 01 01 FF AF 1D

RX < 01 01 33 00 01 CA (the card is inside the reader: the LEDs flash yellow)

Example:

TX > 33 01 01 FF AF 1D

RX < 01 01 33 00 00 (the card has been removed: the LEDs light up still blue)

7.3 ccTalk commands for reading the source file

- header FFAD00 - Reading of the "source"

Returns NACK if the card is absent (or not recognized);

returns 1 byte, if the card is inserted and recognized, with the following possible values:

1: magnetic stripe has been read; 2: chip has been read; 3: both chip and magnetic stripe have been read.

returns 1 byte = 255, if the card is inserted but HAS NOT BEEN recognized.

This command can be useful when other information than the date of birth is looked for. In fact, the information relating to

the Family name (Surname), Name, Sex, Place of Birth, and Place of residence, are available only if the chip has been

successfully read. If the card has only the magnetic stripe only, only the tax code can be read apart from the date of birth.

- header FFAD01 –Read Family Name / Surname (*)

returns the Family name in ASCII format (maximum 40 characters); or,