Cubic Transportation Systems has recognized its Minneapolis/St. Paul customer, Metro Transit, for achieving near record high usage of its Go-To Card contactless smart cards in February 2013. The Go-To Card represented 54.7% of all fares collected during the month, with nearly 3.43 million rides paid for by using Metro Transit’s Go-To Cards, which include the […]
07 May, 2013Metro Transit reaches near record high smart card usage
07 May, 2013Iris scans could save billions on medical data breaches
Facilities in the health care industry are increasingly adding iris scanning systems in an effort to improve patient safety and cut down on medical fraud, reports Bloomberg. The leading players in this field, Safran SA, Fujitsu Ltd., AOptix Technology Inc. and M2Sys Technology say that health care providers want the technology not just to make […]
06 May, 2013Washington Nationals go contactless for season tickets
Other baseball teams on deck
The crack of the bat, the pop of the ball and the roar of the crowd signal opening day for Major League Baseball teams across the country. Over the years walking through the turnstile on game day was preceded first by the tearing of tickets and more recently by the scanning of bar codes. This […]
06 May, 2013Biometrics helps Sugarcane producer pay workers in the field
Christopher Columbus and his Spanish colonizers brought sugarcane into the Dominican Republic at the end of the 15th century. Today, agriculture is one of the most important sectors of the Dominican Republic’s national economy and sugarcane is the country’s most important agricultural product. The processing of the sugarcane stalk produces sucrose, the main product of […]
06 May, 2013The marriage of biometrics and contactless: A ‘natural’ match
Payment, access and identity may soon benefit from union
Near Field Communication is working to make contactless transactions more convenient, and with solutions flooding the market the technology holds a great deal of promise. However, there’s some reluctance to wander from the standard NFC formula – tapping a mobile device to a point of sale terminal or NFC tag to conduct a transaction. France-based Natural […]
06 May, 2013Episode 107: Changing landscape for smart card manufacturers
Smart card manufacturers are changing their focus from producing cards to software and services, says Jean-Noel Georges, global program director at Frost & Sullivan. Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan spoke with him about the changing market and where smart card manufacturers are focusing their energy.
04 May, 2013OSPT Alliance releases CIPURSE open security standards for NFC phones
The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance announced the availability of the CIPURSE V2 Mobile Guidelines, a set of requirements and use cases for developing and deploying CIPURSE-secured transit fare mobile apps for NFC-enabled smart phones, tablets and other smart devices. Providing everything developers need to implement and use the CIPURSE V2 open security […]