Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

CoreStreet releases additions to PIVMAN for first responders

Monday, October 20, 2008

CoreStreet has announced enhancements to the CoreStreet PIVMAN suite of products. Now available in its third version, the suite features expanded platform support and functionality for software, as well as a graphical dashboard reporting option for the management station.

The PIVMAN product includes software for handhelds and PCs for both mobile and fixed command stations. It also features a management station to administer the link to the back-end attribute exchanges from the U.S. Department of Defense, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, federal agencies as part of their HSPD-12 initiatives and state and local governments.


Now able to run on Windows XP-based PCs and Windows-based handhelds, the Client has been tested and certified for the DAP CE3240B handheld from Roper Mobile Technology, the Be.U Mobile SMC-800 handheld from Cross Match Technologies as well as the DSV2+Turbo handheld from Datastrip.

The new CoreStreet PIVMAN Dashboard is a graphic reporting tool used to visualize the data collected by the CoreStreet PIVMAN Management Station from the handhelds and PCs running the client. Charts and graphs can be generated based on specific parameters including cardholders, credential types presented, issuer of the credential and transaction results.

The CoreStreet PIVMAN system enables for electronic verification of FIPS-201 compliant credentials; FIPS-201 interoperable credentials such as the First Responder Authentication Credential and the Transportation Worker Identification Credential; and supports legacy credentials such as drivers licenses for all U.S. states and Canadian provinces. [end] 

Operational Research Consultants Inc. (ORC), a subsidiary of WidePoint Corp., has been authorized to issue PIV-I as a certified non-federal issuer.

As a non-federal issuer, ORCs identity credentials, issued to government contractors, state and local governments, first responders and health care providers, have additional interoperability for customers who wish to conduct e-government and e-commerce transactions with other entities across the Federal Bridge.

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Identification Systems Group (ISG) announced that its partners Datacard Group and Salamander Technologies have finished the integration of Salamander’s resourceMGR credentialing software with Datacard’s CD800 desktop card printer.

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Madison County Jail in Alabama implemented a 3D face recognition system to prevent the accidental release of the wrong inmate, according to Homeland Security News Wire.

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Neurotechnology has announced the release of two new software development kits (SDKs) from their MegaMatcher line of offerings. The two new releases, MegaMatcher 4.2 and MegaMatcher On Card 3.0, both offer support for fingerprint, facial and iris recognition to be used either individually or as a multi-factor solution by Neurotechnology’s VeriFinger 6.4, VeriLook 5.1 and VeriEye identification engines, respectively.

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HID Global announced an expanded portfolio of RFID asset tracking solutions designed to meet the demands of industries including logistics, automation and manufacturing, medical and health care, returnable transport items and waste management.

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Florida-based Codebench has released IDSync, a software development kit that enables automated provisioning and deprovisioning of users and credentials into a supported physical access control system.

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