If you thought that spring was the busy season for conferences, think again. In the past week the marketing blitz began in full force for a series of ID and security technology events. Events including ASIS, ISC East, Cardtech Securtech, Cartes, InsideID, and more create the difficult situation of “an event per week” and sometimes […]

The U.S. Genenal Services Administration (GSA) will look to Oberthur for production of the new contact and contactless ID cards. The GSA cards will be issued to employees, contractors, and visitors using facilities nationwide. The GSA announced that 18,000 of the new credentials will be issued. OBERTHUR WINS FIRST GSA CONTRACT FOR ISSUANCE OF SECURE […]

Attaching a small contactless tag to an item of clothing enables garment rental companies and laundries to better keep track of items throughout their lifecycle. The chip is embedded inside a heat- and chemical-resistant token such that it can withstand frequent laundering and abuse. Sokymat has offered contactless laundry tags in the past, but this […]

The indoor positioning solutions firm, Radianse Inc., has teamed up with St. Croix Systems (developer of the ‘WOSYST’ clinical engineering software for asset management) in a non-exclusive development partnership to integrate Radianse’s active RFID technology into WOSYST for the real-time tracking and management of medical devices. An indoor positioning system (IPS) provides an indoor equivalent […]

Technology News: Business : Accenture Lands Homeland Security Mega Deal “The DHS contract calls for the alliance to design and build a massive expansion of the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology, known as US-VISIT for short. The system eventually will be installed at 400 ports of entry in the country, including the busiest […]

Accenture has been awarded a contract to design and implement the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program. This program, currently targeting a December 31, 2004 implementation deadline for the busiest 50 land ports of entry, is being designed to develop a virtual border program of identity verification and screening of visitors […]

Manhattan Associates and Alien Technology have teamed up with Microsoft to bring high performance EPC (electronic product code) compliant solutions to the enterprise market in the form of an ‘RFID In A Box’ solution. Using the Microsoft.NET framework for Manhattan Associates’ RFID-enabled supply chain execution applications, and the Microsoft Windows CE device platform for Alien […]

Charlotte Observer | 06/02/2004 | Accenture wins federal contract to track visitors “Accenture Ltd. led a group that won a contract worth as much as $10 billion to develop a system to help the Department of Homeland Security track visitors to the U.S.” “Accenture plans to use radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology to place […]