Greater security and backwards compatibility are two of the features of NXP’s new MIFARE Plus contactless smart card IC, designed for automated fare collection and the access control markets. One of the chip’s advantages is that after upgrading the system infrastructure, service operators will be able to easily switch MIFARE Plus-powered cards in the field […]

Blackboard has announced the addition of video surveillance capabilities to its Blackboard Commerce Suite. The IP-based, digital video offering will be integrated with the existing access control and recently acquired mass notification functionality. The new addition will allow campuses to view live or recorded video from more than 80 cameras simultaneously, zoom images frame by […]

RFID hardware supplier iDTRONIC, presented its new high-frequency new RFID Antenna Gate EzMultiX at CeBIT 2008 in Hanover this week. The company is touting the antenna – as well as its new Multiplex Long-Range Reader – as being particularly well-suited for “integration into modern Access Control Applications.” RFID Reader: iDTRONIC Introduces The New EzMultiX RFID […]

LEGIC now has a “card-in-card solution” that combines smart card micro-controllers with building access and related multi-applications onto the same smart card chip. This enables standard contactless LEGIC uses – such as physical access – to be combined with other contact type third party uses such as logical access to PCs, government ID credentials, credit […]

San Diego-based ImageWare Systems Inc. announced a three-year, royalty-based, worldwide OEM agreement with GE Security Inc., Bradenton, Fla. With the partnership, GE Security may include ImageWare’s products for biometric identity management, logical access control and card management as a part of its identity management solution offerings. GE Security’s identity management solutions are security platforms with […]

iDTRONIC, a supplier of RFID hardware, today presented the new HF RFID Antenna Gate EzMultiX at CeBIT 2008 in Hanover. This high-performance antenna and multiplex Longe Range Reader is particularly well suited for integration into modern Access Control Applications. iDTRONIC’s EzMultiX ISO 15693 LR antenna set is a high-performance solution especially designed for modern RFID […]

Access Smart debuted Power LogOn Administrator 4.0 for educational institutions that includes features for identity management, cashless transactions, and building and network access using smart card technology. Power LogOn Administrator is a security system that’s based around smart cards. The card contains a users’ passwords, credit card account information for transactions and other information that […]

Access Smart debuted Power LogOn Administrator 4.0 for educational institutions that includes features for identity management, cashless transactions, and building and network access using smart card technology. Power LogOn Administrator is a security system that’s based around smart cards. The card contains a users’ passwords, credit card account information for transactions and other information that […]

Sure, pilots are necessary growing pains of any maturing markets. But with RFID, we’re starting to see quicker turnarounds to implementation, says Mike Liard, one of ABI Reserch’s analysts who follows the market. From simple closed-loop applications such as security/access control in an office building to complex open-loop applications such as item-level tracking, RFID technology […]

The 3,000 students at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, will no longer need keys to access their dorm rooms. The students ID proximity card, which can be presented to wall readers, is all they’ll need thanks to a Salto online door-locking system that has been installed throughout the campus. Limerick-based Mary Immaculate College has chosen […]