Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

ExtraCare Charitable Trust secure its latest retirement village with SALTO electronic access control

Monday, December 17, 2007

In the UK, the new £33.5m Milton Keynes retirement village has installed physical access control features to protect its residents. ExtraCare Charitable Trust has chosen electronic access control products from SALTO Systems to secure its latest retirement village project in Milton Keynes. SALTO electronic access control equipment secures the site from the main entrance doors, access doors to car parks, and internal doors to Village facilities, as well as the multi-point locks on the apartments themselves. Over 300 Mifare controlled locks have been fitted and operated by proximity cards.

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Operational Research Consultants Inc. (ORC), a subsidiary of WidePoint Corp., has been authorized to issue PIV-I as a certified non-federal issuer.

As a non-federal issuer, ORCs identity credentials, issued to government contractors, state and local governments, first responders and health care providers, have additional interoperability for customers who wish to conduct e-government and e-commerce transactions with other entities across the Federal Bridge.

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BadgePass and Digital Identification Solutions have integrated BadgePass’s Identity Manager credentialing software with Digital’s EDIsecure XID 8300 Retransfer Printer for single step smart card encoding and card issuance.

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German automotive supplier Continental has announced that it will showcase its new NFC-enabled vehicle access control solution this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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HID Global announced the acquisition of EasyLobby, a provider of secure visitor management solutions.

EasyLobby’s product suite provides enterprise-class visitor registration, tracking, reporting, badge printing, asset and package management, Web-based pre-registration and employee/contractor time and attendance functionality.

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Sequent Software, a California-based provider of mobile NFC software, announced the launch of Core Card Services (CCS), a solution designed to enable any mobile app to seamlessly integrate NFC payments, ticketing, coupons, ID badge access and more.

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Idesco announced that it has updated and enhanced its DESCoder software package, offering security providers and end users alike more control over their contactless access control systems.

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