A $200,000 security system that would enable students at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque to use their ID cards to gain entrance to their dorm rooms has been shelved for the time being because the system isn’t working as expected. Instead, students at the school’s newest dorm have to resort back to the […]

HID Global announced that the company’s credential and reader solutions have been selected by Banco do Nordeste do Brasil (BNB) to reinforce its access control system for physical access at their administrative offices headquartered in Fortaleza, Ceará. With the objective of increasing its card security, BNB also took advantage of the company’s Corporate 1000 Program, […]

So, you want to deploy a converged smart card system for logical and physical access control for your company? You start taking inventory, looking at the operating systems in use, applications that would have to be enabled, public key infrastructure technology that would need to be deployed and physical access control infrastructure and try to […]

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, owner of Schlage contactless smart credentials and readers, has announced the launch of Schlage’s new WPR400 Wireless Portable Reader. Designed for use in contactless access control systems, the device offers a cache mode option for offline applications ranging from attendance, event admission, checkpoints, signal testing, perimeter expansion and more. “The WPR400 […]

New York University students will be getting a redesigned ID card starting this fall which will include contactless capabilities for access into buildings. “The reason for issuing a new ID card is for essentially two reasons,” said a NYU spokesperson. “It has been in place for far too long (10 years), and there is a […]

TSA officials did not show up to a U.S. congressional hearing for transportation worker credentialing. The hearing was looking into why it has taken the agency so long to get a viable biometric credentialing and security check procedure in place for airline flight crews, according to a Journal of Commerce article. John Mica, the chairman […]

GuardRFID announced that it has completed development of its 433MHz active RFID staff tag – designed to enable real-time location, safety and security applications in health care, enterprise security, and industrial environments. The GaurdRFID ST-series tag family enables duress call systems in hospitals and staff location including detection of direction of travel of staff in […]

Precise Biometrics has announced that under its new management group it will be focusing on the U.S. marketplace. The new business plan also intends to focus on the development of its new internal divisions of Mobile, Identity Access Management and Access Management. The new focus is a direct response to the U.S. taking up a […]

U.S. Democratic House Representatives from the Homeland Security Committee have issued a letter to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) outlining their push for a biometric-based fast track security check point for flight crews at airports, according to a NextGov article. The TSA is already piloting such a system, however, the representatives worried that the program […]

Salamander Technologies’ MOBILE PIV software has been integrated with the Motorola Solutions MC75A handheld mobile computer and biometric smart card reader attachment to add a FIPS 201-compliant cardholder unique identifier (CHUID) reader to the General Services Administration Approved Product List (APL). Salamander Technologies’ MOBILE PIV identification software, part of Salamander’s interTRAX Suite of Accountability Solutions, […]