CONNECTICUT DMV TO DEPLOY DIGITAL DRIVER'S LICENSE SYSTEM

May 1, 2002 12:00 PM

The Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles has chosen Viisage Technology Inc., Littleton, Mass., to design, develop and implement a digital driver's license system. The DMV will acquire digital images, signatures and demographic data and store them in a relational database. Additionally, a Viisage facial recognition system successfully helped National Geographic identify the previously unknown “Afghan girl,” who was on the cover of the magazine in 1984.

The San Antonio City Employees Federal Credit Union has selected biometric security measures from IR Recognition Systems, Campbell, Calif., to ensure access control for safe deposit boxes.

B&Q, a British home improvement retailer, has teamed up with Intrepid Security to install SentryVision SmartTrack systems from Sentry Technology Corp., Hauppage, N.Y., in 20 stores. Intrepid is Sentry's UK-based integration partner. The system includes robotic CCTV monitoring using pan/zilt/zoom domes.

Concerned about possible deaths or injuries caused by shards of falling glass, officials at NASDAQ headquarters, New York, chose BlastGARD protection film from ShatterGARD Inc., Atlanta. The film helps hold the glass together in the event of an explosion.

The worldwide offices of Goldman Sachs have deployed a one-card solution from NexWatch, Fremont, Calif. The installation earned NexWatch Goldman Sachs' “Five-Star Award,” given to just one of Goldman Sachs' 21,000 vendors.

Q9 Networks, a Canadian provider of Internet infrastructure protection and data centers, has licensed a fingerprint pattern recognition system from Bioscrypt Inc., Toronto. Q9 will develop an advanced access control system using the technology.

Groupe Emeraude, which owns and operates 12 casinos in France, has selected the NiceVision digital video platform from NICE Systems, Ra'anana, Israel, to record hundreds of cameras deployed throughout the casinos.

Everest VIT, Flanders, N.J., has been recognized for the company's work at Ground Zero in New York, where its QuickView video inspection camera searched the rubble for survivors.

An unnamed airline serving more than 700 cities in over 100 countries has chosen fingerprint scanning services from Sylvan/Identix Fingerprinting Centers, which are 50 percent owned by Identix Inc., Los Gatos, Calif. The companies will provide employee fingerprinting services.

Airports in Costa Mesa, Calif.; Lansing, Mich.; Traverse City, Mich.; Reno, Nev.; Tucson, Ariz.; Corpus Christi, Texas; La Crosse, Wis.; Rapid City, S.D.; and St. Louis have chosen live scan systems that capture print and transmit fingerprints electronically from Visionics Corp., Jersey City, N.J.

A sales agent for AFLAC Insurance has recovered a stolen computer thanks to CyberAngel, a security software system from Computer Sentry Software Inc. (CCS), Nashville, Tenn. Once activated, the software indicated the phone number, address, registered name and a map to the location of the stolen computer to the CSS monitoring center. The unit was then recovered by the Tennessee Police Department.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, has selected RSA Security, Bedford, Mass., as a strategic partner to secure health care operations and facilitate e-health initiatives. The center chose RSA Keon UnixControl software to secure the center's UNIX infrastructure.

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, has chosen VideoBridge technology from IndigoVision Group, Boston, for development of tactical surveillance and security robots.

Imaging Automation Inc., Bedford, N.H., has licensed ID-Check technology from Intelli-Check Inc., Woodbury, N.Y., for use in its BorderGuard system and authentication platform. The system enables detection of fraudulent and tampered ID documents.

The Canadian Federal Government has contracted Frisco Bay Industries Ltd., Montreal, to engineer, supply and install integrated security systems to various facilities in the Ottawa/Hull region. The systems include access control, video surveillance and alarm monitoring.

Korean Airlines has ordered Advanced Taser less-lethal weapons systems from Taser International Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., for use on all aircraft. Additionally, Taser technology was cleared of any wrongdoing involving the death of a man armed with a knife that the Philadelphia Police Department attempted to sub-due using less-lethal weapons. (The man's death was caused by a cocaine overdose — not the use of the weapon, as we reported in March).

The Canadian government has purchased an ActiveTag asset management system from Axcess Inc., Dallas, to track and protect its laptop computers. Additionally, the Texas Local Government Purchasing Cooperative has awarded Axcess a contract to provide networked digital video, vehicle and asset management solutions.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has bought an additional $148.6 million worth of explosives detection machines and equipment from InVision Technologies Inc., Newark, Calif. The TSA is seeking to install explosives detection in every U.S. airport as stipulated in the Aviation and Transportation Security Act.

A major property management company in the District of Columbia and the DC Police Department are now monitoring 14 apartment complexes online using a surveillance system from RemoteVideo Inc., Irvine, Calif. The RemoteVideo solution is part of a system created by Commercial Security Systems Inc., Perry Hall, Md.

The palace once occupied by Catherine the Great in Tsarskoe Selo, Russia (outside of St. Petersburg) is under constant surveillance using cameras and video motion detectors provided by Geutebrueck, Germany. The company is also installing a CCTV system there.

Officials at the Salt Lake City Olympics used an Internet-based identity verification tool — InstaCheck — from California-based PeopleWise, to examine data about potential Olympic workers and volunteers.

RSA Security Inc., Bedford, Mass., is working with Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corp., Iselin, N.J., to provide authentication measures and govern access to its software applications hosted from Siemens' Malvern, Pa.-based information services center. Siemens is providing RSA SecurID authenticators to more than 11,000 users of its healthcare systems. Siemens is also using RSA SecurID authenticators for more than 4,000 internal employees.

Soto Cano U.S. Air Base, Honduras, has completed a base-wide installation of a CCTV system from Kalatel, Corvallis, Ore., a GE Interlogix company. Components of the system include digital video recorders and a monitoring station.

The city of Phoenix has placed an order for a high-speed molecular screening instrument from Syagen Technology Inc., Tustin, Calif., to analyze its water supply at entry and distribution points.

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