Following rigorous testing of its biometric products such as flash drives, time clocks and mice, Avalon Technology Group (ATG) has been chosen by Biometric Security Group (BSG) to distribute their products to the Gulf Region in the mid east. BSG’s partners in the region are among the largest IT companies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE […]

Idesco has introduced an EPC reader intended for use in cheaper applications. The new passive UHF reader enables longer read ranges of lower cost, passive identifiers, enabling identification applications for vehicles, logistic systems and access control. The Idesco EPC reader can work with one external and one internal antenna. Both antennas can transmit and receive […]

HID Global announced that it is expanding its products in the access control space to include logical access control products. The new products will enable HID’s physical access products to be used for logical access as well. As part of the announcement, HID says its iCLASS contactless smart cards can be read by the embedded […]

Sargent and Persona have announced a new physical access control system for college campuses. The SARGENT Passport 1000 lockset, available in offline and WiFi-enabled versions, is an electronic locking system that operates with PERSONA Campus software. The Grade 1 lock utilizes magnetic stripe and PIN code technologies for dual validation that can be customized to […]

Texas Instruments has unveiled its new secure multi-purpose contactless chip designed for the growing closed-loop contactless micropayment, loyalty, ID and access application markets. A number of closed-loop applications, particularly in Asia and in Central and South America, are seeking the speed, convenience and security of the ISO/IEC 14443 standards-based contactless technology that TI’s new chip […]

NXP Semiconductors says its newest security chip processes transactions twice as fast, 3.5 seconds, as the current industry standard for contactless smart card chips. The SmartMX, the P5CD081, also features Secure Fetch technology, providing enhanced protection against attack scenarios with light and lasers (so-called fault attacks). NXP is involved in more than 85% of all […]

The U.S. Department of State has ordered an upgrade from Precise Biometrics, a fingerprint authentication technology developer, to its match-on-card system. The upgrade, costing $620,000, consists of adding Windows Vista support to the existing infrastructure as well as on-site support and integration services provided by Precise. The Precise Match-On-Card system enables the fingerprint data of […]