Thai authorities have hired Precise Biometrics to license their Precise Match-on-Card(TM) technology in the initial phase of Thailand’s new national ID card project. The order has been taken in collaboration with Smart Card Systems International Co. Ltd, the company’s local integrator and service partner. An estimated 12 million ID cards will be delivered, each carrying […]

Cubic Transportation Systems will be providing the final piece–computer and clearinghouse integration–for its Los Angeles County smart card-based fare collection system. Known as “TAP,” it will give riders a cashless means of travel and transfer between Metro, the commuter rail line Metrolink and L.A. County’s nine bus operators. SAN DIEGO–Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc., a subsidiary […]

The TotalIDOne, called the industry’s first ID smart card solution meeting HSPD-12 specifications, was introduced at CardTech/SecurTech, Las Vegas, Nev. The off-the-shelf solution is a result of the ID program the company designed for the General Services Administration. Provides U.S. Government Market with Complete Identity Verification Technology LAS VEGAS, Nev.–Oberthur Card Systems, one of the […]

A dual interface reader with contact and contactless capabilities to support the increased demand for badging and other personal ID applications, has been launched by SCM Microsystems. This combination makes it possible to integrate conventional single-purpose card applications onto one card. For example, the same card and type of reader might be used for building […]

The Spartan Shield, which uses a biometric pattern of hand veins as the distinguishing identification characteristic, was unveiled recently by Internal Biometrics Corp., Tuscon, Ariz., during the International Security Conference in Las Vegas. Nev. New vein pattern recognition (VPR) biometric security device debuts Las Vegas, Nev – Internal Biometrics Corporation (www. InternalBiometrics. com) of Tucson, […]

Two German companies–ACG and OMNIKEY–have partnered to develop a contactless passport reader designed to meet ICAO specifications including ISO 14443 compliance. Walluf and Linz – ACG Identification Technologies, a leading component and technology supplier in the smart card and RFID markets, and OMNIKEY, one of the world¹s leading manufacturers of innovative smart card readers, announce […]

An Internet-based ID-verification and credentialing card management system using electronic and biometric technologies that will eventually badge 20,000 longshoremen, truck drivers, and other employees and visitors, has been deployed at Belgium’s Port of Antwerp by Ingersoll-Rand Maritime Solutions. Records and Verifies Identities of Up to 20,000 Personnel Forestville, CT–Ingersoll-Rand Maritime Solutions, a business group of […]