Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram has implemented a biometric time and attendance solution in his ministry to better control and monitor the hours his employees are working, according to a Business Standard article. While the Minister acknowledged that he is not against flex time, he wants to be sure that if employees are arriving late, […]

Smart Sensors Limited, a UK-based biometrics developer that originated at the University of Bath, has introduced a new iris recognition software development kit (SDK), called MIRLIN, that is capable of up to two million matches per second. This is the second version of MIRLIN from the company and its reported speeds would make it not […]

Dayton, Ohio’s new downtown technology park, known as Tech Town, is celebrating the grand opening of the campus’ first building, the Creative Technology Accelerator (CTA). The CTA will house the Dayton RFID Convergence Center, as well as the Institute for Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology (IDCAST), and Weston Solutions. Tech Town took ten […]

Verayo, a security and authentication solutions provider, announced it has partnered with Bartronics India Limited, one of India’s largest bar code and RFID technology companies, to bring their RFID wares to the Indian market. With the partnership, Bartronics will incorporate Verayo’s Unclonable RFID chip in its tags. Verayo’s RFID chip is based on silicon biometric […]

Dutch active RFID provider Ambient Systems and Information Highway Group (IHG), a Spanish systems integrator, have announced a successful pilot run of their new Cool Chain Monitor system. The pilot was conducted with Bionest, Spain’s largest organic strawberry producer, and involved the use of RFID technology to monitor the temperature of strawberries as they traveled […]

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., has implemented a new off-campus dining program that will enable students to use their ID card to enjoy nine restaurants in downtown Troy with participation from other merchants possible in the future. The new community program builds off the Rensselaer Advantage Dollar program, a campus declining balance account using the […]

The August meeting of the Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list […]