The Imprimerie Nationale, the French national printing house, has announced the selection of Smart Packaging Solutions (SPS) to manufacture portions of future secure ID cards for France. SPS is a specialist in identity solutions, providing microelectronic components for national identity cards, drivers’ licenses and biometric passports. Imprimerie Nationale is the only company authorized by the […]

First Volkswagen, now beer; IBM continues to bring RFID-related innovations to products near and dear to a German’s heart. Ringnes, Norway’s largest brewery and a part of the Carlsberg Group, has announced its deployment of IBM RFID-enabled solutions to improve its logistics operations. The Ringnes shipping system handles almost half a billion liters of beer […]

FaceKey, a developer of biometric technologies specializing in fingerprint and facial recognition, has announced that they have been selected by nursing home Meridian Care to provide San Antonio homes with FaceKey’s EntryGuard time and attendance employee tracking system. EntryGuard is the fingerprint recognition system that will be replacing Meridian’s existing time clock system. In addition […]

MaxID, a developer of rugged computing devices, has announced that they have integrated a fingerprint sensor from Lumidigm, a developer of biometric solutions, into their iDLMax series of handheld identity management devices. The iDLMax utilized Lumidigm’s Venus fingerprint readers which use optical imaging for authentication. The Venus readers is capable of obtaining high-quality images in […]

Sagem Securite, a developer of biometric technologies, is partnering with Hitachi, a Japanese technology company, to develop a new multimodal biometric solution utilizing Hitachi’s VeinID Biometric Authentication technology and Sagem’s fingerprint sensors, according to a TMC Net article. The final result is expected to simultaneously scan fingerprints as well as vein patterns in the finger […]

Lior Shamir, an official from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and Salim Rahimi, a computer engineer from State University of New York, have proposed using x-rays of knees as a fool-proof method for identifying an individual’s identity, according to a UK Register article. The added benefits of switching from a regularly used system such […]

The Bay Area Rapid Transit System, BART, starting this summer will make the TransLink regional fare card available to its riders. The universal card, already in use by San Francisco’s MTA and several other transit agencies, can be set up to automatically reload BART’s fare when the account reaches a minimum amount. TransLink, a rechargeable […]