Feitian Technologies, a Bejing, China-based smart card provider, announced its new Feitian .Net smart card platform. The .Net framework is Microsoft’s programming model for building network applications. The new Feitian platform provides a way foor developers to create smart card application for businesses using Microsoft’s .Net framework. The platform includes a software developer kit, which […]

Okanagan College in British Columbia has become the third college in Canada to choose SALTO Systems to provide a contactless electronic access control solution. The first building to roll out the system will be the new $28 million Centre for Learning, a jointly funded project between the provincial government and the college. The facility, which […]

What better way to demonstrate your electronic locking system than at a police college? That’s what SALTO Systems has done at the National Police Forensic Training College at Harperley Hall in County Durham in the northeastern part of England. The company secured 80 bedrooms, multi-function classrooms and other facilities at the college with proximity locks. […]

As the next October deadline for HSPD-12 nears, federal agencies are making progress in issuing credentials. The deadline requires all government employees to have background checks completed and credentials issued by Oct. 27. As of Aug. 4 the General Services Administration’s Managed Service Office says more than 224,000 employees have been sponsored, 119,146 have been […]

ActivIdentity Corp. announced that its ActivClient smart card technology is available to customers at the U.S. Department of Defense using select HP multifunction printers. The new solution requires employees to verify identity upon access to the device, or to multifunction printer features and functions. The software safeguards printed and scanned documents and provides added convenience […]

Biometric security checkpoints are being trialed as a replacement for manned stations at Manchester Airport’s Terminal 1 in an attempt to ease pedestrian traffic through the checkpoints while also improving security, according to an Info 4 Security article. The biometric stations are being provided by Fujitsu Services, a developer of biometric products, in partnership with […]

The Lough Erne Golf Resort in Ireland has gone with a contactless Mifare system to control access to its guest rooms. Ambar Systems Ltd., a SALTO business partner, deployed the SALTO electronic access control system. The resort will have contactless readers controlling to 85 bedroom doors in the main hotel and the 25 other units […]