HID Global announced that it is expanding its products in the access control space to include logical access control products. The new products will enable HID’s physical access products to be used for logical access as well. As part of the announcement, HID says its iCLASS contactless smart cards can be read by the embedded […]

Sargent and Persona have announced a new physical access control system for college campuses. The SARGENT Passport 1000 lockset, available in offline and WiFi-enabled versions, is an electronic locking system that operates with PERSONA Campus software. The Grade 1 lock utilizes magnetic stripe and PIN code technologies for dual validation that can be customized to […]

Texas Instruments has unveiled its new secure multi-purpose contactless chip designed for the growing closed-loop contactless micropayment, loyalty, ID and access application markets. A number of closed-loop applications, particularly in Asia and in Central and South America, are seeking the speed, convenience and security of the ISO/IEC 14443 standards-based contactless technology that TI’s new chip […]

NXP Semiconductors says its newest security chip processes transactions twice as fast, 3.5 seconds, as the current industry standard for contactless smart card chips. The SmartMX, the P5CD081, also features Secure Fetch technology, providing enhanced protection against attack scenarios with light and lasers (so-called fault attacks). NXP is involved in more than 85% of all […]

Okanagan College in British Columbia has become the third college in Canada to choose SALTO Systems to provide a contactless electronic access control solution. The first building to roll out the system will be the new $28 million Centre for Learning, a jointly funded project between the provincial government and the college. The facility, which […]

What better way to demonstrate your electronic locking system than at a police college? That’s what SALTO Systems has done at the National Police Forensic Training College at Harperley Hall in County Durham in the northeastern part of England. The company secured 80 bedrooms, multi-function classrooms and other facilities at the college with proximity locks. […]

As the next October deadline for HSPD-12 nears, federal agencies are making progress in issuing credentials. The deadline requires all government employees to have background checks completed and credentials issued by Oct. 27. As of Aug. 4 the General Services Administration’s Managed Service Office says more than 224,000 employees have been sponsored, 119,146 have been […]

Biometric security checkpoints are being trialed as a replacement for manned stations at Manchester Airport’s Terminal 1 in an attempt to ease pedestrian traffic through the checkpoints while also improving security, according to an Info 4 Security article. The biometric stations are being provided by Fujitsu Services, a developer of biometric products, in partnership with […]

The Lough Erne Golf Resort in Ireland has gone with a contactless Mifare system to control access to its guest rooms. Ambar Systems Ltd., a SALTO business partner, deployed the SALTO electronic access control system. The resort will have contactless readers controlling to 85 bedroom doors in the main hotel and the 25 other units […]

Clugston Construction Ltd has installed a biometric turnstile at one of its sites for time and attendance. The biometric Site Access Turnstile is supplied by UKB International Ltd has been installed at the $91 million Derwenthaugh EcoPark site in Gateshead, where Clugston is building a steam autoclave recycling facility for client Graphite Resources. Workers, sub-contractors […]