BY JANE ADAMS CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Traditionally, contactless technology has been used primarily for mass transit. However, during 2002 both Visa and MasterCard announced contactless payments specifications based on standardized contactless technology. Its use has also been growing in the access control and network security, and authentication markets. While contact cards need physical contact to communicate, […]

Validating people, not plastic, sounds good on paper and is, in fact, one of the reasons cited by some colleges and universities for controlling building access-primarily dorms, or sororities/fraternities-with biometric hand readers.   Johnson and Wales (JWU), in Denver, Colorado, San Diego State University (SDSU), and, most recently, the University of Central Florida (UCF) in […]

San Jose, CA (December 3, 2003)—Indala Corporation has named Ann E. Johnson as marketing manager, reporting to president, Marc Freundlich. In addition to promoting Indala’s extensive product line of low-cost, high-quality proximity cards, tags and readers, she will also serve as the Company’s public relations contact. Formerly marketing communications manager with SS8 Networks, an IP […]

S2’s Groundbreaking Security Network Appliance Integrates with Leading Access Control and Camera Technology     WELLESLEY, Mass., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ – S2 Security Corporation (S2),developers of the industry’s first network appliance that fully integrates arange of physical security applications, today announced that its debutproduct will support HID Corporation’s (HID) Proximity, Wiegand and iCLASSaccess control cards and […]

Sonitrol of Orlando Replaces Proximity Readers with HandReaders – Biometrics Ensure Only Authorized Individuals Enter Sorority Houses. CAMPBELL, CALIF. – December 10, 2003 – IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that Sonitrol of Orlando has installed Recognition Systems biometric HandReaders at […]

Sonitrol of Orlando Replaces Proximity Readers with HandReaders – Biometrics Ensure Only Authorized Individuals Enter Sorority Houses. CAMPBELL, CALIF. – December 10, 2003 – IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that Sonitrol of Orlando has installed Recognition Systems biometric HandReaders at […]

Also Guarantees 2% Discount on Any Published “CASI”-compatible Proximity Card Pricing from Any Other Source BOCA RATON, FLA. – November 20, 2003 – GE Interlogix Access and Integration Group (NYSE:GE) today announced significant discounts on five of the company’s most popular proximity cards, including the Entrée, ProxLite and ISO ProxLite proximity cards.  In addition to […]

Four-State Wiegand Interface Card Supports Multi-Credential Formats BOCA RATON, FLA. – November 19, 2003 – GE Interlogix Access/Integration Group (NYSE:GE) today announced that its new Wiegand Interface Unit-Four State Card (WIU-4), when combined with any conventional proximity, Mifare® and ISO 15693 readers, sends immediate alarm notification if a short circuit, cut line, or open/close condition […]

Over 20 million ASK smart cards and contactless paper tickets are in use, in more than 25 countries.  Now this leading position is being reinforced, as ASK signs 2 major contracts to equip city transport networks in Lisbon and Porto Set up in 1997 and based in Sophia Antipolis, ASK is now the world leader […]

LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, one of the worlds’s leading suppliers of secureplatforms for contactless smart card technology, and the Dover Harbour Board have signed an agreement that will see contactless LEGIC identification technology applied to access control and time & attendance systems across Port facilities. Originally established in 1606, Dover Harbour Board is responsible for the […]