New electronic rotary latch aims for secure convenience
February 15, 2009
Engineerlive.com: Southco's new R4-EM electronic rotary latch combines robust rotary latch security and electronic access convenience in a single integrated product, which can be used on self-service and industrial equipment, among other applications. Its microprocessor control accepts a variety of electronic actuation signals including wireless devices such as proximity cards or RF (radio frequency) key fobs, hard-wired numeric keypads or swipe-card terminals, smart-reader devices, biometric devices and remote computer or network security system signals. An integral microswitch option is available to provide a "latch opened/closed" status signal for remote monitoring.