Jolly Technologies and Brivo Systems LLC announced that Brivo’s ACS WebService Software as a Service access control solution has been integrated with Jolly’s Lobby Track visitor management software. The integration will enable customers to issue access control credentials directly from the Lobby Track visitor management system and assign credentials to visitors, contractors, and employees. The […]

MaxID has announced the sale of the MaxIDentity Suite and the iDL500 multi-modal handheld TWIC readers to the Delaware River Port Authority, The Port Shreveport-Bossier, Virginia International Terminals Inc. and Citgo Petroleum Corp. The MaxIDentity Suite contains a series of ready-to-use applications to read PIV, PIV-I, TWIC, CAC, FiXS, and FRAC smart cards as well […]

Reduction in sensor size and new software has enabled Fujitsu to improve its vein pattern technology, says Dan Dalton, director of new product development in the advanced technology group for Fujitsu Frontech North America. “Not only have we reduced the size of the sensor, made it much faster, much more efficient, but we’ve also released […]

GlobalPlatform has announced its board of directors for fiscal year 2011, following annual elections for six of the eleven seats. Individual members to serve as officers for a one-year team have also been confirmed. After serving as GlobalPlatform’s vice-chair for five years Marc Kekicheff, senior business leader of chip innovation within the Technology Office at […]

Federal and state rules are starting to require more security for physicians that use electronic prescribing technology. The DEA wants prescribers to add a layer of authentication and Ohio has also mandated the additional factor. This could be an opportunity for biometrics in the health care market. “You can image doctors using biometrics to extract […]

HID Global announced the completion of its parent company ASSA ABLOY’s acquisition of ActivIdentity. The acquisition will expand HID Global’s logical access offering and create a portfolio of converged physical and logical access solutions. ActivIdentity’s solutions are used to establish a person’s identity for digital interactions, also known as logical access control. There is growing […]

Blaze Mobile has unveiled a new two-way contactless payment sticker that enables information to be transferred in real-time between the sticker and a mobile device without the use of a carrier network or WIFI. The sticker, which can be used on any mobile device, offers users real-time account information whether in a store, subway, transit […]

Hoyos Corporation announced a partnership with Herta Security to implement iris scanning technology in airports in an attempt to solve airline security issues and create a secure process from check-in to boarding, says Jeff Carter, chief development officer at Hoyos Hoyos and Herta are creating a pilot program to run in Barajas Airport in Madrid, […]

The Rhode Island Department of Corrections is implementing iris scanning technology at its prisons to prevent inmates from fraudulently switching identities at the time of one’s release to help other inmates escape, according to a WPRI Eyewitness News article. While the department already had plans for the system when an inmate escaped using the very […]

HID Global’s Trusted Identity Platform was first introduced in March but the identity provider is rolling out more features to the system as the year progresses. A recent partnership aims to enable HID’s iCLASS credentials on NFC chips. This would allow mobile handsets to function as access control tokens and more, says Tam Hulusi, senior […]