BIO-key and Educational Biometric Technology achieved a perfect score recently at a Minnesota school, which upgraded to BIO-key’s latest software release that includes fingerprint matching software. The program eliminates the need for students to remember a PIN or carry an identification card to establish their identity. New Biometric release, VST 5.5 Attains 100% Identification Results […]

At first glance, card system vendors don’t seem to be as much a part of a European campus programs as they do in the U.S. But look a bit deeper and you will find country or region-specific organizations helping campuses build their programs. According to one such vendor – London-based Fortress GB, – card requirements […]

RF IDeas has introduced what it calls the first contactless smart card solution that is immediately deployable, without the need to develop applications or update existing back-end systems. Designed for HID’s iCLASS contactless smart card, the AIR ID eliminates software by storing keystrokes, user IDs, passwords and other credentials securely on the iCLASS card. ORLANDO, […]

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When the Grenada, Mississippi School District faced a lawsuit filed under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the district learned an important lesson: accurate calculation of regular and overtime rates for hourly workers is vital. In such litigation, the burden is on the employer to prove actual employee hours worked. Now, Attendance Enterprise from InfoTronics, […]

Precision Dynamics is using passive RFID wristbands to track jailhouse prisoners. Right now, the company is in local jails, but state prisons are next. “We currently have three facilities (jails) up and running,” said Tom Foster, RFID patron management specialist for Precision Dynamics. “We also have a dozen water parks up and running so you […]

Biometric and smart card security provider SAFLINK Corp recently announced it has received an additional $600,000 order from a mid-Atlantic state’s prison system for the company’s SAFpassage, designed to ensure the integrity of guard shift changes. SAFLINK receives contract for prison system in eastern U.S. BELLEVUE, Wash. – SAFLINK Corporation, a leading provider of biometric […]

Using hand readers that automatically take a three-dimensional reading of the hand’s size and shape, Birmingham, Ala.’s schools will be using 159 of them at 61 school districts sites to track time and attendance for the schools’ employees. So far, 133 of the readers have been installed with the goal to have at least two […]

Do you use prox or contactless cards for access control and wish you could use them for other applications as well? You are not alone – thousands of corporations, campuses, and agencies are in the same boat. But a Chicago-based company, RF Ideas, may have a solution in their line of programmable devices that read […]