DAILY has released a new hands-free RFID-enabled attendance tracking system for ID badge identification at meetings, conferences, schools and other venues that require attendance management. The RFID attendance system instantaneously captures attendees’ data without the need of human intervention using DAILY’s DL8220 gate reader and passive RFID tags. The walk-through RFID attendance tracking system is […]

By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications The U.S. Department of Defense has been a leader when it comes to smart cards with its Common Access Card, but the agency is also forward thinking when it comes to biometrics. The Defense Department is using biometrics in a variety of ways, including overseas for access to bases, […]

Kantara Initiative, a global identity project, announced that six applications have won a 2009 Identity Deployment of the Year Awards (IDDY). The IDDY Deployment award winners include Google and Plaxo; Signicat; and the U.S. Department of Defense. The winning IDDY Proof of Concept awards include fun communications; Gemalto and Vodafone; and NRI, NTT and Oracle. […]

The Smart Card Alliance named the new Physical Access Council, officers and steering committee. The council also announced a new workshop in October at the Smart Card Alliance 8th Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference in Washington DC. The workshop, “Smart Cards and Next Generation Physical Access Control Systems (PACS),” will be held pre-conference, on […]

HID Global will announce the launch of Genuine HID at the ASIS International Conference being held from Sept. 21 – 24 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. Genuine HID covers a set of customer benefits associated with Genuine HID products, the introduction of a new Genuine HID Technology trademark to identify third-party products […]

VingCard, a hospitality security provider and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, has completed its installation of Signature contactless electronic door locks with NFC cell phone compatibility at the Sea Pearl Villas Resort in Phuket, Thailand. While the hotel is open now, the resort itself isn’t scheduled to open until the third quarter of 2010. […]

Datacard Group, a secure ID and card personalization solution provider, is highlighting its MJ7500 card personalization system and MX6000 card issuance system with a retransfer color printing module at PRINT 09, a trade show geared to all aspects of the printing industry. The Chicago show, which began last week, runs through Sept. 16. The MJ7500 […]