3M Security Systems has debut its new multilateral border security program designed to enable quick, secure travel between Caribbean nations: the CARIPASS. The CARIPASS is a voluntary travel card program that provides secure and simple border crossings for citizens and legal residents in the 10 Caribbean Community nations. To participate, eligible travelers must pre-enroll at […]

SecuGen announced a technology and marketing partnership with access control developer Lucky Technology to develop biometric access solutions for North American schools. The solution integrates Lucky’s iGuard Access Control device and SecuGen’s SDA03M fingerprint module. It is ideal, the companies say, for schools because the system is capable of locking down specific areas or all […]

Lumidigm has announced it has provided its fingerprint imaging technology to secure the recreation facilities at Free Amsterdam University, a European college with roughly 8,000 faculty, staff and students. The school employed the new biometric solution to eliminate card pass-backs, a process that enables unauthorized people to gain access to the recreations facilities. The administration […]

By Consuelo Bangs, Senior Program Manager, Biometric Access Solutions at MorphoTrak, IEEE CBP Public key infrastructure (PKI) authentication coupled with biometric match on card provides extremely attractive security benefits to those in the public and private sectors concerned about cyber attacks. PKI is a means to verify the digital identity of both the sender and […]

Lumidigm announced that i-Evo is using the company’s multispectral imaging sensors to produce a line of fingerprint readers that can be used both indoors and outdoors, including in harsh environments that render most biometric readers inoperable. The i-Evo team has kept the design of the biometric fingerprint readers simple, resulting in units that are small, […]

WCC Smart Search & Match is in the algorithm business, says Tarvinder Sembhi, vice president of sales for the identity market at the company. “We have multiple biometrics plus biographical systems that can scale to a national or international basis,” Sembhi says. The company has different algorithms that organizations or governments can use to match […]

L-1 Identity Solutions has announced the release of a new line of biometric access control solutions being touted as both high efficiency and low cost. The new offerings, called 4G V-Flex Lite, 4G CR-Pass and 4G SecureControl, were demonstrated along with other L-1 products at the Intersec Trade Fair in Dubai Jan. 16-18. While all […]

By Richard Ringold, IEEE Certified Biometrics Professional Program As we look at 2011 and beyond, it is quite clear that biometrics are here to stay. From a broad view of the security landscape, some of the biggest challenges that lie ahead extend well beyond securing our borders. We need to proactively develop new ways to […]

HID Global announced that its RFID reader module has been chosen by German airline security provider DESKO for its Personal Identification Mini Dock (PIMD) identity-checking system. Jointly developed with Panasonic, the “3-in-1” system is designed for border-control, policing and other security applications, and includes a DESKO-designed optical character recognition (OCR) unit and a fingerprint scanner, […]

Accu-Time Systems, developer of work force management systems and software, have announced the availability of its new workforce management terminal that includes an optical fingerprint reader for biometric identification authentication, according to a TMCnet article. The fingerprint readers for the system are being supplied by biometric technology developer Lumidigm and are from their Mercury line […]