PIPS Technology, specialists in automated license plate recognition technology, has teamed with 3M to promote an electronic vehicle recognition (EVR) system in the global transportation market. The companies’ cooperative EVR solution incorporates 3M’s passive RFID expertise with PIPS’s signature plate recognition technology. The system can automatically identify vehicles and validate their status through data associated […]

The National Maritime Security Advisory Committee’s TWIC Working Group says there are many issues that need to be resolved with the Transportation Worker Identification Credential. The committee was started to give the U.S. Department of Homeland Security feedback on maritime security issues. The 17-page report released at the end of July details issues port operators […]

L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. has received more than $9 million in task orders from multiple customers for 1,460 PIER and PIER-T iris enrollment and recognition devices, 535 HIIDE Expansion Module Jumpkits and more than 10,000 batteries for biometric devices. The company expects to begin shipments in the third quarter of 2008. The names of the […]

As fears of a new Sunni insurgency erupting in Iraq are rising, the U.S. military is turning towards a database of biometric information including fingerprints and iris scans to assist them in restricting excess movement throughout Iraq, according to a Wired article. The military has been compiling biometric data on Iraqi citizens for a while, […]

Organizations are looking at the spec, but not a lot of deployments yet By Zack Martin, Editor Many people agree that FIPS 201 is a good technical specification, but its acceptance outside the U.S. government remains slow. That might not be for long though. Other governments and private organizations are looking at the standard, which […]

The UK government’s Home Office is set to spend up to $75 million on a program called Midas, which will provide police agencies with mobile biometric kits intended to enable officers to identify people based on their fingerprints in real time, according to a Computer Weekly article. The Home Office is looking to sign a […]

Industry veteran John Doyle has joined ID solutions provider Digital Identification Solutions’ North American sales team. Doyle has nearly four decades of imaging experience in a variety of industries and companies. Most recently, he was OEM manager of sales for CCD and spectrographic cameras at Princeton Instruments in Trenton, N.J. He has also worked with […]

At Manchester airport in the UK, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has launched a trial face recognition program at the airport’s Terminal One to help with pedestrian congestion and security concerns, according to a Channel 4 News article. The new security gates can only be used by adult citizens of the UK and EU who have […]

The Netherlands have slowly but surely been adopting biometrics in many facets around the country, according to a CSO Online article. The programs are at first touted for their ability to expedite tasks, but they’re also being deployed because they offer better security. Earlier this year, a large grocery store chain introduced fingerprint technology to […]