IDenticard in Perpetual Motion
01 January, 2003
category: Biometrics, Contactless, Corporate, Education
IDenticard utilizes smart card technology to create identification credentials crucial to higher education for network security, physical access control, electronic cash and financial transactions, and inventory management. Continuous advancements and collaborating efforts made by Identicard offer more solutions to the higher education market. Recently, IDenticard has announced teaming up with ITC Systems, Horizon, and Bioscrypt in efforts to provide campuses with a full line of integrated secure solutions.
ITC Systems is best known for its single cash card solution promoting prepaid services in closed environments such as college and university campuses. Horizon Software International, Inc. is a leading food services management software provider. Horizon’s comprehensive food service campus solutions range from point-of-sale to back-of-the-house management systems. Both ITC Systems and Horizon have formed an alliance to make IDenticard’s access control and imaging systems compatible with their integrated solution for cash card systems and food service management solutions for college and university campuses.
Bioscrypt Inc. is a leading provider of fingerprint technology. The company’s solutions combine the convenience of touch with the high security of fingerprint-based biometrics for simple and secure access to facilities, equipment and information. IDenticard holds a patent for laminated contact less smart cards using the Mifare architecture platform, known as IDentiSMART™. Intergrating IDentiSmart™ with Bioscrypt’s V-Smart™, an integrated MIFARE® smart card and fingerprint reader for access control will offer campuses another security solution. The IDentiSMART/V-Smart solutionis said to provide simple, fast, accurate and private verification that the person using the card is its legitimate owner.