How the compatible Hotek (HTK) Classic / Smart / Leonardo / Mini Advance works
The Hotek (HTK) Classic / Smart / Leonardo / Mini Advance is a 13.56 MHz high-frequency contactless credential read over the ISO/IEC 14443 air interface. Its data structure is Hotek lock encoding: HTK Classic & Mini Advance on Mifare 1K; HTK Smart on UL-C ('CSMART'); Leonardo variant. When you present a credential, the reader decodes that exact structure and passes it to your access-control panel as a card number it recognises.
We build the compatible Hotek (HTK) Classic / Smart / Leonardo / Mini Advance by encoding the identical data structure onto a programmable Genuine NXP MIFARE Classic 1K chip. Once written, the reader cannot tell the difference between our credential and the original — it presents the same bits, the same facility code, and the same card number. That is what "compatible by specification" means: not a generic look-alike, but a credential engineered to read exactly as the original does.
The Hotek Hospitality Group format sits among the specialist proximity credentials most card vendors never tooled up to produce — which is why the only other source is usually the original manufacturer, at a steep premium. Supporting these hard-to-find formats is exactly what Security ID Systems specialises in. Tell us the format printed on your card, or send a sample for us to read, and we confirm compatibility before you order.
Also known as
HTK · Hotek · HTK Classic · HTK Smart · HTK Leonardo · HTK Mini Advance · CSMART · CSMART Hotel
Hotek Hospitality Group and all other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Security ID Systems is an independent manufacturer and supplier of compatible access-control credentials and is not affiliated with, authorized by, sponsored by, or endorsed by these companies. Brand and format names are used only to identify the systems our products are compatible with. MIFARE and DESFire are registered trademarks of NXP B.V.