PARX France, subsidiary of On Track Innovations (OTI), is expanding its EasyPark contactless parking solution to Montpellier, the 8th largest city in France with more than 500,000 residents in the city’s metropolitan area. EasyPark (known as Piaf 2 in France) is OTI’s in-vehicle contactless electronic parking meter. To activate Piaf 2, the driver turns on […]

Tychi Systems, a developer of biometrics door locks, has announced the expansion of its product offerings to include biometric safes. The safes, called BKK Safes, operate on fingerprint authentication and can have up to 100 users of the safe enrolled by an administrator with the capability to delete or add users to the system. Tychi […]

Sandata Technologies, a provider of information technology solutions for health care and social services industries, has announced the release of a speaker verification tool resulting from a partnership with voice biometrics developer PerSay. The tool was developed for Sandata’s time and attendance tracker called Santrax which is a telephone and Web-based field management solution. Santrax […]

Motorola unveiled a new mobile handheld reader. A light weight, durable, gun-style RFID reader, the MC3090-Z features a newly patented dual-axis orientation-insensitive antenna. With different features of linear polarization for a longer read range and circular polarization for wider coverage, the MC3090-Z looks to bring a new level of read sensitivity for reliability and an […]

SCM, Hirsch and BlueHill merge to take on a growing market By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications When Felix Marx joined SCM Microsystems in late 2007 he had a mission: reposition the company in the identification market. In the two-years since Marx took over as director and CEO he has been able to change the […]

CoreStreet announced that John Bys, senior vice president at the company, has been asked to serve in a volunteer liaison capacity to the All Hazards Consortium. In this role, Bys will work with key state stakeholders on the Critical Infrastructure Protection Working Group to help facilitate collaboration between the states and the federal government on […]

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) each piece of lost luggage costs between $90 and $100 in direct costs to airlines and airports. In an effort to eliminate these costs, ODIN technologies has developed a scientific RFID study for airline baggage tracking, named the RFID Baggage Tag Benchmark. The test results incorporated tag […]