NEPTUN chrom is much more than a typical keyboard. As the preferred keyboard of airlines worldwide, it is used at many international airports. Apart from the typical keys including numeric keypad, it is equipped with an integrated swipe reader featuring an OCR camera (Optical Character Recognition) as a standard option. This camera for optical character recognition is suitable for reading out documents such as passports or IDs. In addition, NEPTUN chrom can optionally be equipped with the tried-and-tested magnetic strip reading method to read frequent flyer cards, customer cards, credit cards or bank cards. Other additional features are available for integration such as a chip card reader and/or an RFID module with integrated antenna for reading biometric passports, credit cards etc.

OCR camera

for the machine-readable zone, e.g. passports, ID cards and visas

Magnetic strip reader

customer cards and service carts for detecting customer data, frequent flyer cards and credit cards or bank cards

Chip card reader

Chip cards and smart cards such as credit cards and bank cards as well as insurance cards

Tickets with magnetic strip

admission tickets