Winners of the CARTES Asia 2013 SESAME Awards have been chosen. The Asian SESAMES Awards rewards the best projects in 3 categories: Card technology, manufacturing, personalization, covering everything that relates to the card technology and manufacturing process, and its personalization, and provisioning until final delivery to the card holder. Hardware, including readers, validators, and more […]

Innometriks has added a new identification validation reader to its portfolio. Called the Rhino Touch, the reader is a result of a partnership with Lumidigm to incorporate fingerprint sensors into its features. The Rhino Touch is an identification validation reader that’s designed for high-security applications that require multifactor authentication. It offers a configuration for U.S. […]

Ingersoll Rand announced the debut of its new HandPunch GT-400 time and attendance terminal that lets employees clock in with the same card used to enter their building facilities. The MTR-G embedded reader module provides compatibility with aptiQ smart credentials, which provides advanced MIFARE Classic and MIFARE DESFire EV1 encryption, to provide improved security. It […]

The Smart Card Alliance will be hosting a day-long workshop at ISC West entitled “Learn to Leverage Mobile Devices in Physical and Logical Access Security.” The event will take place on April 9 from 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. PT at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas. Attendees will learn more about new uses […]

Lumidigm announced that Alfapass, the provider of the security smart card system at the Ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge in Belgium, is replacing the older biometric system at the ports’ registration stations with Lumidigm V-Series multispectral imaging fingerprint readers. The Port of Antwerp is Europe’s second largest port and Alfapass is in the process of […]

Stanley Security Solutions announced its partnership with EyeLock Inc., a provider of iris-based identity authentication solutions. EyeLock provides a suite of iris-based identity authentication solutions as an added differentiator to Stanley’s existing security solutions. The EyeLock suite enables Stanley to focus on the financial services, banking, health care, industrial, education and government sectors. EyeLock’s access […]

Homeland Security Corporation (HSCC) has created a joint venture with Sense Technologies to develop, sell and support new identification and access control products for HSCC’s product line. The joint venture will work on developing several security applications using HSCC surveillance and CCTV technologies along with biometrics and access control for positive user identification and system […]

The Heriot-Watt University in Scotland has selected SALTO Systems to install its smart access control systems at the university’s new student residence, which are located in five buildings spread over two campuses that are almost 40 miles apart. Students’ bedroom doors are secured by XS4 wireless handles set in toggle mode. This enables access via […]

The new $6.7 million Allam Marine offices building in East Yorkshire, U.K., has ordered iEvo’s biometric fingerprint readers with Lumidigm multispectral imaging sensors for building access control. Allam Marine opted for a biometric access control system over a card-basd access system due to difficulty tracking cards through loss or swapping and easy card breakage. The […]

Villanova University conducted a five-month pilot using Apple iPhones sporting NFC-enabled cases to give a group of student’s physical access to dorms and dining halls. Kathy Gallagher, director of Card Systems at Villanova University, reveals that the pilot included iPhone 4 and 4S models because those were the devices that were most common amongst students. […]