Innovation Corner
Digital Defense Group, Omaha, Neb., has developed a self-contained RFID biometric ID card that stores a unique digital certificate based on a user's fingerprint...
Do More Than Open the Door
Today's smart cards are being expected to expand their capabilities for users to encourage such development, HID Connect honored companies that have developed...
Tough on Cards
Students want to fit in. They want to be just like all of their friends. For students at Painesville City Local School District, an unusual point of differentiation...
Credentialing to the Stars
More than 6,000 people attending the Golden Globes awards ceremony in January had to have their personalized credential or ticket scanned to gain access...
NSU Academical Village Features Smart Cards
Nova Southeastern University (NSU), the nation's seventh largest private university, has chosen multi-functional smart card solutions using a new generation...
Gloucester Public Schools learn the value of systems integration
Today's id card printers are generally easy to use. Many are meant to be plug-and-play devices and can be put into service quickly and easily. Some security...
Revlon Facility Gives ID Cards a Makeover
Hodgepodge is not the newest Revlon eye color. It's how Security Manager Thomas Hillery described the variety of ID cards used at Revlon's North American...
Emory on Board With Barcode Readers
Atlanta's Emory University features a 72-acre, walking campus that practices environmentally sustainable concepts. It offers curvilinear landscapes with...
Plastic Gets Smarter
By Jacqueline Emigh
IT MAY BE SMALL IN SIZE, but a smart card is actually an elaborate piece of engineering work. Within a relative few enterprises, these small, credit card-sized...
Know Your Card Printer
By Robert Anderson
Tell the truth, did you really read the entire manual when you bought that new cell phone? Have you played with all of its zillion-and-one fun features?...
One Card at a Time
by Corrina Stellitano
For some, college is just a rest stop on the road to responsibility. Knowing this, proactive college administrators are selecting security systems that...
ID Cards Getting Smarter
By John Ekers
There is more and more technology going into a typical high school's ID card program. Functionality now can include physical access, logical access, identification,...
Precision Security
By Randy Southerland
One night, a large metal loading bay door at the warehouse section of the Orangeburg, N.Y., distribution center for Olympus Surgical and Industrial America...
Fairleigh Innovative
By Randy Southerland
Fairleigh Dickinson University is the largest private institution in New Jersey with 10,000 students pursuing higher education on two campuses in the...
City Hall & Beyond
by Carol Carey
Five years ago, access control for city employees in Eugene, Ore., was relatively uncomplicated: more than 500 employees were issued proximity cards to...
Product Focus
Card Readers Proximity And Smart Card Reader Open standard The open standard reader line is fully ISO 15693 and 14443A/B compliant, which enables it to...
The Top 20
The New Product of the Year Award showcases the most innovative product of the current year and recognizes the talent and commitment of the people involved...
System for Today and Tomorrow
Some airports are not waiting for federal government guidelines on biometrics. Instead, they are upgrading security systems to include the flexibility...
Ancient Monument, Smart Technology
Each year, more than 4 million people from around the world visit the Great Wall of China. To streamline access by reducing ticket jams, fraud and system...
Mark of Verity
ID card upgrade boosts professionalism at Indiana DNR The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Law Enforcement Division, headquartered in Indianapolis,...
Best Dressed Security
After 42 years as a leading producer of poultry in the Caribbean, Jamaica Broilers Group has embarked on a mission to modernize operations and increase...
eVALUATING Biometrics
BY RAM SATHAPPAN
Larry Barfield recently found himself charged with the task of evaluating fingerprint-based biometric security for the U.S. Marine Corps. As a project...
Cards serve multiple purposes for D.C. university
Gallaudet University in Washington D.C., offers educational programs for hearing impaired students from infants and their parents and through middle and...
Quiet Coverage
By Corrina Stellitano
A library may not seem like an edgy or sophisticated security application. Its residents are confined to shelves; its visitors rarely tend to be threatening...
Getting Clever With Smart Cards
By Jacqueline Emigh
In workplaces ranging from Boeing and Microsoft to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), employees now wield special, contactless wallet-sized cards that...
