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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | JULY 2017 | 13 12 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | JULY 2017 | Access Control Committee Access Control Committee First, we would like to welcome our newest member to the Access Control Committee, Mr. Mike Christie — welcome Mike. RFID Tag Update: As a result of our entry into last month's Herald article, many of you expressed interested in seeing this project continue to move forward, so here is a brief update on where we are to date. The Access Control Committee has drafted, and the Board has approved a document outlining all the necessary steps needed for the start up of a pilot program using approximately 100 RFID Tags to replace the current transponder units. This would be a 30 day beta test to satisfy the HOA committees and the Board on the proof-of-principle before committing to the final project. Because this process could take 8 plus months to procure, test, and install approx all 2,300 of these homeowner tags, we feel that we should break up this information into two segments. SEGMENT #1 This month and alternate months, would explain to our residents why and address your questions, such as rental cars, home help, out-of-state, after hour's entry, and the benefits of using this type of system. SEGMENT #2 On the other alternate months we will provide a more technical description of the products and the technology, including overall upgrades and benefits of a new data input and gate entry control systems that will accompany this change. In order to accomplish this, we are asking for your full cooperation and support. So let's start. We are choosing to do this because there are many of you who read these articles that do not understand why it is necessary to change this technology. Last month's Herald provided a picture and a broad overview of what we can expect from this new approach. As a person whose background was in the technology market let me try and give you a clearer understanding. While serving in that industry, it was often necessary for us to talk to our clients to help them understand upcoming and new technologies; we called this "Giving them the warm and fuzzies." So with your permission I will try and keep you not only technically informed, but provide rational explanations as we go along. The underlying reason for this change is that the old transponders that we currently use are now obsolete, so it is absolutely necessary to replace them. This older technology, which is more bulky, and requires a battery to operate it, is NOT SECURE from theft, or from residents transferring these units to non-permitted users, such as family members or outside utility providers. We only have a little over one year, before these transponders will no longer be commercially available, so it behooves us to start making the change to a newer, more secure, and more up-to-date technology NOW. Question? How much information do we have on this RFID technology? Answer: Well, it is important that you understand that this technology is NOT something new. It is extremely well tried and tested, and has been continually updated and in service in numerous industries, countries and communities all over the world for many years. The first RFID patents for the Active RFID Tag (the one we will transfer to) were originally patented in January of 1973. About that same time the Passive Transponder (the type of technology we are currently using) was also conceived. So just by looking at the new RFID headlamp tag, we have obviously come a long way with the newer versions of this technology, and we can easily understand how that basic knowledge has been refined over the years to the state-of-the-art that we see shown below. Hopefully, by providing these snippets of information as we move along, we will give you the warm and fuzzies as we send you month- to-month updates of the technical and practical information for your vehicle access change-over. Typical headlamp RFID sticker to replace Transponder Units. Next month we will explain how it works. Current style transponder: 4"L x 2.5"W New thin film adhesive "Break-on-Removal" headlamp RFID Tag 3.13" L x 1"W GOLF COURSE ACCESS ISSUES It was stated that on "Next Door.com" that the ACC was not doing their job because people believe Four Seasons owns, and monitors the gates at the golf course. It is important that people understand Four Seasons DOES NOT own those gates. The HOA did negotiate with the golf course manager to allow Roving Patrol to secure and unlock the #10 gate to the cart path along the north side of World Cup. That is the only gate for which this service is provided. The Roving Patrol has been tasked for several years now to close the #10 gate at dusk, and to open it at approximately 5 am for the workers to access the course for maintenance. The ACC and Board have discussed the reasons for this, and adopted this procedure based on the golf course staff NOT closing this particular gate, and in so leaving the community vulnerable. There are also two additional driveway gates that lead into the golf course parking lot, one along the south curb of World Cup and one along the west curb of California. Roving Patrol has no responsibility or accountability for these additional gates. Their closure and/or opening are entirely the responsibility of golf course management. We have, on a number of occasions, encouraged the golf course manager to routinely close and lock them, but the practice has been inconsistent. As we have continually stated, and which may need to be restated again, Four Seasons is NOT a secure community, but rather a gated access controlled community.

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