Legacy 125-kilohertz proximity technology is still in place at around 70% to 80% of all physical access control deployments in the U.S. and it will be a long time before that changes, says Stephane Ardiley, product manager at HID Global. The above scene, however, is starting to play out more frequently as corporations, educational institutions […]

Cubic Transportation Systems has recognized its Minneapolis/St. Paul customer, Metro Transit, for achieving near record high usage of its Go-To Card contactless smart cards in February 2013. The Go-To Card represented 54.7% of all fares collected during the month, with nearly 3.43 million rides paid for by using Metro Transit’s Go-To Cards, which include the […]

The crack of the bat, the pop of the ball and the roar of the crowd signal opening day for Major League Baseball teams across the country. Over the years walking through the turnstile on game day was preceded first by the tearing of tickets and more recently by the scanning of bar codes. This […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the spring 2013 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

SmartDebit, the UK direct debit payment processor, has responded to the recent news that one million bus journeys in London have been paid for using a contactless debit, credit or charge card. According to Transport for London (TfL), up to 10,000 people per day are using their contactless card to pay for a fare in […]

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is meeting to address the growing number of privacy concerns circulating around the Clipper card, the reloadable contactless smart card used for electronic transit fare payment in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to the San Francisco Examiner, the duration for which regional officials can keep personal information obtained by […]

Contactless payment card shipments are shipping at the fastest rate since the technology was first introduced, the Smart Payment Association announced at the Cartes North America conference. More than 975 million cards were shipped in 2012, with the largest climb in the Asia Pacific region. China’s migration to chip-based payment cards influenced the region’s 24% […]

Ottawa is moving forward with its new tap-and-go smart transit card fare system for OC Transpo, according to the Ottawa Citizen. Following numerous delays and technical hiccups, transit officials say the PRESTO card system is now operating at 99% efficiency. As many as 10,000 Presto cards are to be distributed to students at Carleton University, […]