Smart card and identification technologies on display for the world to see at the industry’s biggest and best event What’s in a card? Well, apparently plenty, judging from what’s ahead at this year’s CARTES scheduled for Nov. 7-9 in Paris at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre. “An ‘Innovative Card Design’ Exposition will disclose the latest […]

A massive effort but one that could bring equally massive returns By Chris Corum, Executive Editor The nation saw first-hand the need to identify critical personnel in disaster situations in the days and weeks following 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina. “After Katrina we had 6000 doctors driving boats while people went without care simply because we […]

Hertz trials new smart card in France to identify driver, unlock door, and start engine By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor You arrive at the airport, check on your rental car’s location, and wave a card near the reader inside the windshield and the car unlocks. Tell the onboard computer attached to the car’s rearview mirror […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor After a long flight, you arrive extremely tired at your hotel to find a line of people queued up at the front desk. Then you remember that you are an NFC user … you bypass the front desk and go straight to your room because you already know your room […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Lots of questions … too many places to go to seek answers. Wanting to lend assistance in solving that problem is a key purpose behind a new consortium established to help integrators and federal agencies deal with the many nuances of HSPD-12 compliance. Called, predictability enough, the HSPD-12 Interoperability Consortium, […]

ASSA ABLOY and Cisco are demo’ing an IP-based “networked door,” a part of the two industry leaders’ collaboration. The door, and the work between the companies, suggests growing potential for smart networking between physical and logical devices as a part of evolving security systems. ASSA ABLOY joins with Cisco Systems to bring network intelligence to […]

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor You can tag cows, you can tag drugs, and you can tag palates. So long as you have picked a good reader, you’re all set, right? Not true, unless you’ve selected the ideal frequency for your particular application. For developers in the RFID space, differences between UHF, HF, and other […]

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor International Biometric Association is meeting with the Transportation Security Administration in the hopes of convincing the federal agency to include contactless readers as part of its new credentialing and security system for ports and maritime workers. Smart cards containing the contactless technology were tested during a yearlong “Prototype Phase” of […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Tired of the misinformation being pushed by the media, privacy groups and others regarding smart card technology–in many cases getting it confused with RFID–five organizations have decided to pool their resources in an attempt to set the record straight. The simple mission of the Secure ID Coalition, which includes some […]

Sweden’s Göteborg University deploys a visual challenge and response solution from Entrust By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor You log in with your password, then you’re met with another screen with the following: A3, F4, J5. No, you’re not playing Bingo. It’s part of an authentication system created by Dallas, Texas-based Entrust. To supply the correct […]