TORONTO, ON and IRVINE, CA, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – HIDCorporation and Bioscrypt Inc. (TSE: BYT) today jointly unveiled a practical and affordable new solution for access control that combines the high security of biometrics with a new generation of recently announced contactless smart cards from HID called iCLASS. Bioscrypt, the world’s leading provider of fingerprint-based […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 6, 2002–Ensure Technologies, the award-winning leader in intelligent digital information security solutions, and HID Corporation, the industry leader in card access technology, today announced the forming of a technology integration alliance. Through this alliance, Ensure’s XyLoc(TM) Enterprise PC security software now facilitates and manages large enterprise and geographically dispersed deployments of […]

The April Issue of CR80News provides a look at upcoming card conferences and events, an overview of biometrics, a visit with the HofstraCard office and an analysis of card integration in the library. We also present the first of our series on physical security and access control. If you’re a subscriber to the monthly newsletter […]

Irvine, CA (April 15, 2002) The OMNILOCK® OP2000 Series of proximity card reader locks combines OSI Security Devices’ durable stand-alone access control systems with HID Corporation’s proven proximity technology. HID supplies the battery powered proximity technology through its eProx Lock Module. Embedded proximity (eProx) technology modules are integrated with many products, including battery powered locks, […]

A KEY component to campus access control? If you stay in a hotel that still issues a traditional metal key you are likely to be staying in either a quaint bed-and-breakfast or a decrepit motor lodge. Card-based door entry systems have become the norm for hotels and motels across the country. It was only a […]

Ithaca, New York—The CBORD Group, Inc., a leading supplier of housing management systems and campus-wide card systems, is pleased to announce a strategic alliance with Best Access Systems of Indianapolis, Indiana. Best Access Systems (formerly Best Lock Corporation), has been a provider of security products for over 75 years, having designed and supplied access control […]

While many advanced ID programs have moved to smart cards and contactless chips, older identification technologies like the barcode still have a role to play. In many corporate and campus card systems, the barcode is a rapid and cost effective way to drive an ID number into a system for item checkout, tracking and similar low-security functions. This article provides an understanding of the basics of barcode technology for ID professionals and card issuers.