Airport Demand Boosts Smart Cards
Paul Rothman
Smart card shipments to the U.S. and Canada have doubled in the past year from 14.77 million in January through June 2001 to 31.2 million in the same...
A SINGLE CARD FOR MULTI-TENANT BUILDINGS
By MICHAEL FICKES
Before Sept. 11, 2001, the security goals of 280 Trumbull Street in Hartford, Conn., aimed for parity with other major office buildings in the city. After...
SMART CARD B00M
The latest data on smart cards indicates a 111% increase in shipments over a one year period. JAN JUNE 200231.2 Million Smart Card Shipments JAN JUNE...
SHOW YOUR CARDS
By RANDY SOUTHERLAND
In the post-Sept. 11 environment, security and access control have been more than just buzzwords across the nation. Nowhere has that been more apparent...
BRIDGING THE GAP
This fall, a U.S. Navy base in Guam is expected to start testing a biometric smart card system from Cansec Systems Ltd., Mississauga, Ont., which allows...
SECURITY SYNERGY
By CAROL CAREY
One of the larger events held this year at the 1.3 million-square-foot Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC) was the NBA All-Star Jam Session. For three...
SECURITY TODAY, SECURITY TOMORROW
By DON GARBERA
North Shore University Hospital is rated the top hospital in this year's AARP survey of The Top Hospitals In America. As part of the North Shore-Long...
WHO ARE YOU?
by JENNIFER PERO
Immigration officials and law enforcement agents arrested 24 people and seized fake documents and counterfeiting equipment near the Adams-Morgan neighborhood...
PROX SIMPLIFIES PAPER PRODUCTION
By RANDY SOUTHERLAND
Although they may seem unrelated, there's a good chance the three-part form you signed when you bought a new car and the thermal paper the secretary loads...
It takes three
By BILL HOLMES
Precise identification is the foundation for security. Whether confirming building access to employees, validating a pilot entering an aircraft, or completing...
HIGHER CONTROL
By MICHAEL FICKES
The 9 a.m. meeting began ahead of schedule at the Orange County, Calif., offices of C. A. Gamble and Assoc., a consulting engineering firm specializing...
TAKING SECURITY INTO ACCOUNT
By KATE HENRY
Think Big Five accounting firm, and you might picture stuffy, Wall Street-types with ideas as rigid as their bow ties. Although many of the financial...
FREEDOM INDEPENDENCE
At first glance, the imposing brick structure atop a hill on Dorchester Avenue south of Boston appears to be a grand old mansion perhaps one that has...
PHOTO I.D. and BEYOND
by JACQUELINE EMIGH
Like other state governments, Washington State faces an increasing barrage of security threats from irate citizens and terrorist groups. To help head...
CARD & BADGE PRINTERS
A comparison of suppliers' current product offerings. Company Information Model Name and Number Printing technology (see key) Print Speed (cards per hour)...
ID cards unlock biometric measurements
Larry Anderson
Multiple biometric measurements including facial recognition, voiceprint analysis and even fingerprints or iris scans are stored in a secured database....
Card Market Getting Smarter
Below are the findings of a report entitled United States and Canada Smart Card Shipment Survey, published by The Smart Card Alliance, a non-profit, multi-industry...
Trust in the palm of your hand
By Johannes Lehrhofer
eBusiness is built on trust. In the offline world, trust is generated through personal relationships, physical signatures, and other evidence, in the...
HEIGHTENED HOSPITALITY
By EMILY M. HARWOOD
It is no surprise that recent terrorist attacks and continued threats of violence have wounded the travel and tourism industries. Fear is now playing...
Smart card, smart solution
By Kate Henry
How American Nevada Corp. and its parent company secure their physical, intellectual and human assets. Until a year ago, smart cards, smart chips, seamless...
At CAE, a new level of security
Every weekday, 4,000 employees, 500 temporary workers and 600 visitors walk through the doors of CAE Inc., the world's premier provider of flight training...
Mount Holyoke A card-carrying campus
The installation was no problem. We moved at our own pace, starting slowly by building the infrastructure and the hardware behind the scenes in January...
Single card access, decentralized control at Georgia Tech
ACCESS CONTROL & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STAFF
From its beginnings more than a century ago, the Georgia Institute of Technology has established a tradition of excellence in technological research and...
Ensuring safety, preventing loss at Kozmo.com
DON GARBERA
Internet company uses security systems to protect personnel and distribution centers.Since its launch in 1997, Kozmo.com (www.kozmo.com), headquartered...
Card access is key to University of Virginia's lock problems
RANDY SOUTHERLAND
With its central lawn and trademark rotunda, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville exemplifies the classic academic setting. More than 18,000...
