The Southeast Alabama Medical Center (SAMC) in Dothan, Ala. has chosen to expand its Ekahau Real Time Location System (RTLS) to include campus-wide monitoring of its refrigerators and freezers. SAMC deployed Ekahau’s RTLS campuswide earlier this year to track critical clinical assets, such as infusion pumps and patient monitors over its Wi-Fi network. SAMC expanded […]

Companies have begun taking measurements of employees health to hand out individualized premium discounts on health care costs for those reporting better health or enrolling in classes to improve their health, according to a Star Tribune article. Most of the data being collected include blood pressure, cholesterol levels height, weight and a measure of obesity, […]

Sagem Securite, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced the unveiling of a multi-modal biometric device that was developed in tandem with technology company Hitachi. The device utilizes both finger-vein scanning as well as fingerprint scanning by incorporating Hitachi’s VeinID finger vein technology with Sagem’s Morpho fingerprint scanning technology. The result, a device named Finger […]

Alien Technology has released its new compact ALR-9900-EMA reader, designed to outperform its 866MHz predecessors in half the footprint, according to Alien. The new reader supports near-field and far-field coupling, and includes an Alien Reader Protocol (ARP) engine for autonomous mode of operation as well as full support for Alien’s Higgs-3 based inlay portfolio, which […]

DigiCore, a South African provider of GPS fleet management, vehicle tracking and EMV-based fare management solutions, has chosen to integrate a contactless reader from On Track Innovations with its fare validators. OTI has received the first order to supply 4,000 smart card readers, together with a commitment for further orders as the project develops. DigiCore’s […]

Munich International Airport has announced that it will adopt AeroScout`s GPS and Wi-Fi RFID solution to track thousands of cargo and passenger baggage dollies as they move about the airport. AeroScout T6 GPS Wi-Fi Tags will be mounted on the airport`s cargo dollies, used by cargo companies to pick up and drop off packages, and […]

U.S. payments fraud is expected to rise unless the industry looks towards new technologies, such as contactless chip cards, the Smart Card Alliance said in a new white paper released. “Fraud in the U.S. Payments Industry: Fraud Mitigation and Prevention Measures in Use and Chip Card Technology Impact on Fraud,” was developed by the Contactless […]