Pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer employs more than 8,000 people at its manufacturing facility in Sandwich, Kent, England. When the company investigated access control alternatives to better secure facilities and protect staff, they looked to contactless technology to provide the solution. A team of vendors joined forces to deliver a multifunction system to the company. Swiss RFID […]

15 High Security HandKey Hand Geometry Readers in Denver Dorms Only theBeginning at America’s Career University(r) CAMPBELL, CALIF. – November 19, 2002 – IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that students at Johnson & Wales University in northeast Denver are using […]

Vision Database Systems (VDS) has the education market for ID software pretty well covered–from kindergarten all the way through college. But while the Jupiter, Florida-based company is well-entrenched in the K-12 market, its roots, and its forte remain in higher ed. VDS has a perfect client retention record for the 2003-04 year but there’s no […]

The annual conference of the National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS) will be held November 2-5 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO. The conference has a wealth of educational seminars focused on campus ID card technology and the exhibit hall will showcase products from the industry’s leading vendors. According to Abby Sipe, NACAS […]

NEW YORK, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ – International Biometric Group announces the ninth installment of its Biometric Business and Technology Teleconference series. This month’s topic will be “Biometrics and Smart Cards.” The Teleconference will provide an overview of smart card technology and how biometrics are being integrated with smart cards to create robust security solutions. The […]

PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 10, 2002–New HID proximity card capabilities help organizations reduce costs, enhance security Datacard Group introduced inline proximity card reading capabilities for its Select(TM) and Magna(TM) Platinum Series desktop card printers today at the ASIS 48th Annual Seminar and Exhibit in Philadelphia. This new optional feature will allow Datacard(R) printers to read facility codes […]

CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 10, 2002–IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control (EACD) and the world’s largest supplier of biometric readers for access control and time and attendance applications, announced that it is showcasing its hand geometry readers integrated with HID’s new iCLASS 13.56 MHz read/write contactless […]

PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 9, 2002–Fargo Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq:FRGO), today announced that Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN) Radio Frequency Identification Systems (TI-RFid(TM)) of Plano, Texas, Plastic Card Systems, Inc. of Northboro, Mass., and ITC Systems of Toronto have joined the Fargo Technology Alliance (FTA), a global technology group that promotes effective, advanced smart card solutions. Based in Eden Prairie, […]

NEW ORLEANS (April 23, 2002) –Fargo Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FRGO) today introduced the Fargo Professional Series CardJet™ 410 Printer/Encoder– the first dedicated plastic card personalization system that uses Fargo’s new CardJet Printing Technology™ – at the CardTech/SecurTech Conference and Exhibition here. Fargo will be exhibiting four new printers, including the CardJet 410, at Booth 1001 […]

Irvine, CA (April 15, 2002) The OMNILOCK® OP2000 Series of proximity card reader locks combines OSI Security Devices’ durable stand-alone access control systems with HID Corporation’s proven proximity technology. HID supplies the battery powered proximity technology through its eProx Lock Module. Embedded proximity (eProx) technology modules are integrated with many products, including battery powered locks, […]