Rewards can keep customers coming back and smart cards, cell phones can make it personal By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications Loyalty programs are all about keeping customers. In a down economy, holding on to the business you have is more important than ever. While some businesses create their own loyalty programs, solutions providers […]

Students returning to Jones County Junior College, Ellisville, Miss., for the fall semester, will find new uses available for their student ID badges. The newly expanded OneCard system will allow students to have easier access to campus facilities while being able to make online deposits or allowing parents to do it for them. Students and […]

Hong Kong-based Advanced Card Systems Ltd., a top supplier of PC-linked smart card readers in the Asia Pacific region, has launched a new reader that supports the EZ-Online system, allowing ez-link card users to manage their cards at home. EZ-Link was formed by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore seven years ago to manage […]

DAILY RFID has announced the release of its DL910 UHF RFID reader with a read range of up to 15 meters. The DL910 is capable of reading assets traveling at speeds of up to 100 km/h, making it suitable for rapid flow asset tracking and vehicle access control. The reader is EPC Gen 2 compliant […]

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary based in Wake Forest, N.C., and campus card provider CardSmith have rolled out a new campus ID card program, the Southeastern 1Card, that will provide students, parents, faculty, and staff with access to essential facilities and services on and around campus. The new Card is being issued to all members of […]

ERT Systems LLC, a small Ann Arbor based company, has developed a new way to track firefighters while they’re on the scene. Firehouses that use OnSite ERT (Emergency Resource Tracking) outfit each one of their firefighters with a plastic ID card embedded with an active RFID tag. When called to a scene, first responders place […]

Indian Railways, which carries 18 million passengers a day, making it one of the world’s largest rail transit systems, has selected NXP Semiconductor’s chip technology to drive its contactless smart cards for the automation fare collection system to be rolled out initially across five Indian cities. The company says its MIFARE DESFire chip has been […]