Hikvision Value Series Face Access Terminal DS-K1T320MFWX-B

The DS-K1T320MFWX-B is a Value-series face access terminal, which in practice means the wall of a small reception rather than a plant room — the front of a clinic, a gym, a serviced lobby. Unlike a camera on a soffit, it sits at eye height on the customer’s side of the desk, and everyone coming through the door looks straight at it.

The catalogue also holds the DS-K1T320MFWX without the -B suffix, so the two are variants of the same model. We do not guess at what the -B denotes: the difference is confirmed against the manufacturer datasheet before we quote. If you are extending an existing installation, tell us which one is on the wall.

Where it fits

Nobody specifies the aesthetic and behavioural side of a face terminal, and they should: it is the only equipment on the job the client’s customers are obliged to look directly at. Mount it facing the queue and everyone in line watches the person ahead of them being read; turn it at right angles to the door and the same transaction becomes private. Site it where a visitor meets it before they meet the receptionist and you have told them, wordlessly, that they are being photographed. A printed notice naming who holds the records turns the same unit into ordinary building management.

The consequences are physical too. Everyone arrives inside the same ten minutes at nine, and a terminal fitted a metre from the inward swing of the front door builds a queue onto the pavement, because the person being read stands where the next person must walk. Move it clear of the swing and off the line of travel and the same headcount clears unnoticed. Lunchtime is the mirror image: put it where people leaving and returning cross at the reader and a one-second event becomes a stop-and-wait. Daylight follows the same logic — a lens facing a glazed shopfront looks into the sun for part of every day, while one facing into the room does not.

Before you order — three things to confirm

• Which variant the site runs. We confirm from the datasheet what separates the -B from the plain DS-K1T320MFWX, so a second-phase order matches what is commissioned.
• Position, height and light. Walk the entrance at nine, not at two in the afternoon: door swing, line of travel, queue or room, where the sun falls. Moving it later means a new back box.
• Credentials, network and power. Confirm what the client wants alongside face, which card technology the site already uses, how the unit reaches the network and where power comes from — all datasheet detail.

Technical specifications

• Manufacturer: Hikvision
• Model: DS-K1T320MFWX-B
• Operating system: Linux
• Screen size: 2.4 inch
• Type: LCD
• Resolution: 320 × 240
• Lens: 1
• Video compression standard: PAL (Default) and NTSC
• Audio output: Built-in buzzer
• Wired network: Support
• Wi-Fi: Support, 2.4 G, 802.11b/g/n
• Network interface: 1 RJ-45, 10/100 M self-adaptive
• Lock control: 1
• Exit button: 1
• Door contact input: 1
• TAMPER: 1
• USB: 1
• Face capacity: 500
• Fingerprint capacity: 1,000
• Card capacity: 1,000
• Event capacity: 100,000
• Face recognition distance: 0.3 m ~ 1.5 m
• Face recognition accuracy rate: > 99%
• Face recognition duration: < 0.2 s
• Card type: M1 card
• Built-in access controller: Support
• Power supply: 12 VDC; Supports power supply by battery in the bracket
• Power consumption: ≤ 6 W
• Working temperature: -10 °C to 55 °C (14 °F to 131 °F)
• Working humidity: 0 to 90% (No condensing)

Figures from Hikvision’s published datasheet. We confirm the revision in stock when we quote.

Compatibility

This is an access-control device, administered through Hikvision’s access-control software rather than a video recorder, so on a mixed site plan for it as a separate system sharing the network. Firmware versions cause most of the trouble on phased jobs, so send us the version the client runs.

What’s in the box

The terminal itself. We do not assume any accessory comes with it — no lock, no power supply, no exit button, no mounting box, no cable. Pack contents vary by revision, so what ships is confirmed with you on the order.

Common questions

We already have a DS-K1T320MFWX on the back door. Is this the same thing?
They are variants of one model, not unrelated units. Send the model label off the existing terminal and we will confirm from the datasheet.

Where should it go so it does not jam the entrance at nine?
Clear of the inward door swing, off the walking line, set back into the lobby and facing into the room rather than up the queue. That does more for morning throughput than anything in the configuration menu.

Can we mount it outside the door instead of inside reception?
That changes environmental exposure, which we check on the datasheet, and the social experience: an external reader has people stopping and posing on the street in front of passers-by.

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