Essar Group, one of India’s largest corporate houses, has chosen Bioscrypt, Toronto, Canada, to install its V-Smart readers with MIFARE support to control access to restricted areas. Honeywell, which has used Bioscrypt’s access control technology in projects worldwide, will handle the installation in India. Honeywell Building Solutions (HBS), a Division of Honeywell Automation India, to […]

A Mexican government entity has named ImageWare to develop a biometrically controlled access solution for visitor and access control at a government installation. Under the terms of the agreement, ImageWare will develop a customized multi-biometric identity management system by leveraging a combination of the company’s biometric engine and investigative solutions, enabling the enrollment of employees, […]

OMNIKEY has developed a combination contact/contactless smart card reader in one USB desktop device, providing an ideal solution for users currently using a contactless smart card for building access, as a corporate or student ID, or for transit who also want to extend the use of their card to computer access control. OMNIKEY, one of […]

“By any measure, [optical data access control is] exemplary, and should serve as a role model for any RFID identity-document applications. Unfortunately, there’s still a problem. RFID chips, including the ones specified for U.S. passports, can still be uniquely identified by their radio behavior. Specifically, these chips have a unique identification number used for collision […]

One LEGIC smart card grants the 700 employees of a UK materials handling company access to the 9.5 acre plant while at the same time clocking them in. The card, which replaced an aging mag stripe system, must be presented to a reader at one of the company’s four main entrance turnstiles. Linde Material Handling […]

Thanks to a credential management system from XTec, the U.S. State Department was able to meet the logical and physical access requirements of HSPD-12 and FIPS 201 PIV. According to XTec, the state department became one of the first federal agencies to use a smart card for wide scale physical and logical access. MIAMI– XTec […]

Zebra has signed a new three-year full product line agreement with MedAssets Supply Chain Systems. The full line agreement makes Zebra’s bar code, card and RFID printers as well as its supplies and service agreements available to MedAssets’ customers for a wide range of identification, tracking and access control applications. “Increasing patient safety is among […]

Smart Card Alliance and Security Industry Association both working to educate and impact federal government smart card efforts With about a year remaining before federal agencies have to comply with the FIPS 201 standards, the Smart Card Alliance has come forth with a 43-page white paper describing some of the issues involved and the work […]

Zebra’s dual-sided color P420i printer has been chosen by a southwest Florida school district to print its 11,000 employee ID badges which are part of a GE-installed system that includes access control, video surveillance, alarm monitoring and photo ID badging. Print Photo ID Badges that Double as Access Control Credentials Used by Florida School District’s […]

Visitor Central from GE Security can link with a company’s or college’s currently-installed access control systems to allow greater management to the organization. With Visitor Central, companies can achieve the same level of control and tracking with visitors that they have with employees. For instance, visitors would only be allowed to enter authorized areas. In […]