The Smart Card Alliance, as part of its Leadership, Education and Advancement Program (LEAP), announced that its first international Certified Smart Card Industry Professional (CSCIP) preparation course and exam will be held at the CARTES & IDentification event in Paris. The certification training course and exam will take place at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition […]

Contactless technology is slowly making inroads in the United Arab Emirates, with banks having issued thousands of contactless debit and credit cards. Yet, citizens often aren’t even aware they’re using these types of cards. For example, HSBC in the UAE recently issued 40,000 contactless debit cards equipped that can be used in approximately 100 outlets […]

Greenfingers Global School, a co-educational English medium school in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, has installed RFID technology on school grounds to record attendance and monitor student whereabouts, according to a New Delhi Television report. The school’s 850 students will wear RFID-embedded ID cards, which are captured by installed RFID readers and antenna. Once transmitted to the […]

HID Global announced that it has engaged with strategic developers to license the company’s Trusted Identity Platform (TIP). The initiative extends technology licenses to qualified development partners to enable the building of trusted nodes for the TIP infrastructure. HID Global’s TIP is a secure identity delivery system that validates, registers and provides life cycle management […]

HID Global unveiled a new access-control reader and credential offerings that provide an options for migrating from legacy solutions to 13.56 MHz contactless smart card technologies. HID readers can be used with single- and combination-technology cards including a dual-high frequency credential. HID’s expanded offering includes: An iCLASS reader for migration from MIFARE Classic to secure […]

GlobalPlatform has announced its latest training event, to be held in Paris on Dec. 13 – 14. The organization has designed a two-day training program to improve industry knowledge of its smart card specifications, their capabilities and functions and the benefits gained from implementing standardized and sustainable card technology. Planned for the week following Cartes […]

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies and NEDAP have entered into a partnership to provide a solution that will enable customers to use the same credential for accessing parking structures as used for building access. NEDAP’s driver-based identification will integrate with Schlage’s MIFARE credentials and Schlage’s HID-compatible proximity credential through use of NEDAP’s in-vehicle Booster device. In […]

The September meeting of the influential 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 […]

Evolis, a provider in solutions for plastic card personalization, has introduced ultra-high frequency Gen 2 RFID encoding options within its single and dual-sided card printers – Pebble and Dualys. The Evolis Pebble and Dualys ultra-high frequency printers support a range of applications in various vertical markets, including identification, access control or tracking. Identification of employees, […]

A number of Indian banks are reportedly looking to update their payment cards with contactless technology, according to squidcard.com. HDFC Bank, which boasts a nationwide network of 1,725 branches in 780 Indian towns and cities, has already begun issuing payment cards with both smart chip and magnetic stripe technology. Oriental Bank of Commerce and Indian […]