Munroe Elementary School in Tallmadge, Ohio is upgrading its cafeteria to be cash-free when the students return form winter break relying instead on biometrics for students to access accounts for their food, according to a Tallmadge Express article. The change, which is designed off a system at nearby Hudson City Schools to help make lines […]

Accurate Biometric announced it has been awarded a contract from the FBI for its Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). The contract is a significant one for Accurate as it enables them to offer same-day FBI fingerprint submission services for criminal background checks to clients such as housing authorities, Indian reservations and banks. Other areas […]

Precise Biometrics has announced online technology retailer CPS as a reseller and distributor of Precise’s fingerprint and smart card reader lines Precise Sense, Precise 250 MC and Precise 200 MC. The site that CPS operates, Smartware2u, would make the Precise-developed solutions available to customers within 48 hours of purchase. Beyond gaining better direct access to […]

Biometric identification companies BIO-key International and S.I.C. Biometrics have decided not to pursue a merger and instead have formed a reseller partnership agreement to realize more business opportunities. This partnership enables the firms to resell each other’s products, services and solutions. BIO-key specializes in biometric finger identification technology, while S.I.C. Biometrics produces software and hardware […]

Allen County Ohio, in conjunction with the Allen County Sheriff’s Office has selected BioLink’s IDenium for access to desktops and mobile terminals across county-wide organizations. BioLink IDenium is an enterprise-ready biometric authentication and Single Sign-On solution managed from Microsoft Active Directory. BioLink IDenium replaces passwords with fingerprint authentication. The BioLink system is used to secure […]

Some countries collect fingerprint or other biometric data from visitors but Afghanistan is going a step further a collecting the data from everyone entering or departing Kabul International Airport, according to the New York Times. Border officials plan on adding iris recognition as well. Biometrics are also being gathered by the American military at Afghanistan’s […]

Schools in Taylor County in West Virginia are integrating biometric systems into their school lunch programs in an effort to stream line processes among other purposes, according to a Mountain Statesman article. The Taylor County School System is using a fingerprint-based system developed by biometrics developer identiMetrics and has opened the option to parents to […]

Smart ID announced it will unveil its new biometric enrollment kit designed for the international marketplace at CARTES & Identification 2011 at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition centre in France. The full kit from Smart ID includes a fingerprint scanner, iris scanner, laptop, additional monitor, Web cam, pen drive, offline KVA UPS, 500 GB of […]

SecuGen announced that one of its manufacturing partners, iPulse Systems, is rolling out biometric time and attendance systems that incorporates fingerprint modules from SecuGen to all the McDonald’s restaurants across South Africa. The systems being implemented at the fast food outlets, called iPulse iDU5, utilizes SecuGen’s SDA04M fingerprint OEM module and has already been in […]

The Los Angeles World Airports, which oversees airport operations for the city of Los Angeles, has awarded a contract modification to Unisys to upgrade its access control and alarm monitoring system that is used to identify the 45,000 airport employees, contractors, police and others who work at the organization’s three airports. Under the modification, potentially […]