A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. by Dennis Caulley , Vice President, Marketing, AccessID We are seeing more schools opt for proximity / contactless technology as either an upgrade to existing magstripe based access control, or for […]

Traditional proximity projects as well as combined logical and physical access control projects for clients including Microsoft and Procter & Gamble propelled Indala to a second consecutive year of record growth. Indala Does It Again… Second Straight Year of Record Growth at Silicon Valley-based Access-Control Company San Jose, CA (December 20, 2004) Indala Corporation, an […]

Royal Philips Electronics announced that the U.S. Department of Interior (DoI) will begin full-scale deployment in December of a physical access system using Philips’ MIFARE DESFire contactless chip technology complying with Government Smart Card-Interoperability Specification (GSC-IS). The DoI will be issuing the GSC-IS V2.1-compliant smart cards to its employees, thus heightening secure access to its […]

Mühlbauer has been given the go-ahead by the government of Serbia to produce smart card security documents–vehicle registrations, identity cards, and driver’s licenses–that will include biometrics. The company’s Serbian smart card production plant is secured by biometrical access control. Roding–Mühlbauer, a leading manufacturer of turnkey automation solutions for smart card and smart label production, announces […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. by Bruno Charrat, Chief Technical Officer, Inside Contactless Today there is a growing trend amongst the major smart card players and market leaders, in the perception of RF 13.56MHz contactless technology […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. By Peter Boriskin, Chief Technology Manager, Software House, Tyco Fire & Security’s Access Control and Video Solutions Business Unit “It’s only a matter of time” has been the widely-accepted belief when […]

Campus card transaction system provider NuVision Networks and access control provider Compass Technology have announced a partnership to deliver full function campuswide solutions to the education market. Both companies will share the same SQL database and promise full integration of their respective systems. NuVision Networks, Corp Enters strategic partnership with Compass Technologies Compass Technologies, Exton, […]

Gemplus next month will begin shipping 64K high-end smart cards to a systems integrator for use by the U.S. Federal Government. The hybrid cards, which will include contact and contactless functionality, will be used by several U.S. agencies for both physical and logical access control. Luxembourg, Washington, D.C. – Gemplus International has announced it has […]

< ? $key="0530"; ?> New programmer enables University of Nebraska to program iCLASS™ contactless cards onsite The ability to add application data and unique ID numbers to contactless cards at issuance is key in many access control applications. HID’s CP400 programmer is enabling the University of Nebraska to do just that using iCLASS™ cards in […]

Audi AG employees have gone from six cards to one, thanks to Legic’s smart card system that merges parking, access control, time and attendance, and cashless payment ability at vending machines or in the cafeteria. The card also has room for future biometric applications. Europe’s AUDI AG uses smart card technology from LEGIC for multifunctional […]