Retrofitted CM Locks Protect Older Buildings, Cut Key Replacement Costs IR Security & Safety today announced that Morris Community High School District 101 in Illinois is using its Schlage Computer-Managed (CM) locking systems to secure doors on older campus buildings, restricting access to exterior doors and sensitive areas inside the facilities. “Some of our buildings […]

RFID Journal – Putting Drinks on the Cuff “To use the AgeBand system, a customer presents a driver’s license or some other official identification card (such as military) at the entrance of an event or business. The system, which comes with a bar code scanner and magnetic stripe reader, uses ID-CHECK to analyze the encoded […]

H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Company, the seventh largest pharmaceutical wholesaler, and Matrics Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of EPC-compliant Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems, today announced that H.D. Smith is the first wholesaler to install an EPC RFID system to track controlled substance pharmaceuticals in their distribution center. According to Liz […]

Cypak AB, a leading developer of low cost computing technologies, will be demonstrating its latest innovations at CeBIT 2004 in Germany. The Swedish technology company has created the world s first disposable paperboard computer by integrating innovative microelectronics and printable sensors into paperboard. Cypak will demonstrate this unique technology in the product form of intelligent […]

Last week, we reported that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had awarded a major contract to Accenture to provide support for the US-VISIT program. The program is intended to better secure entry and exit at ports of entry and enforce the visa and immigration policies–including those that will add new technologies (e.g. biometrics, contactless) […]

At Indiana’s Fort Wayne International Airport will use fingerprint biometric readers from Bioscrypt to secure access to key facilities. Fort Wayne is the latest in a series of airports in the U.S. and abroad looking to biometric technologies–either combined with a card technology or standalone–to increase security levels and monitor access. Bioscrypt’s Finger Scan Technology […]

The UK-based vehicle licence plate manufacturer, Hills Numberplates Ltd, has chosen long-range RFID tags and readers from Identec Solutions to be embedded in licence plates that will automatically and reliably identify vehicles in the UK. The new e-Plates project uses active (battery powered) RFID tags embedded in the plates to identify vehicles in real time. […]

A retirement community in Oregon is using RFID wristbands to continuosly monitor the movements of residents across its 6-acre campus. The system alerts staff when a resident exits a building and can also send alerts at other pre-defined occurences. Family members can log onto a website and track their relative as they go about their […]