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

Cogent and Keyscan agree to distribution partnership

Friday, March 20, 2009

Cogent Systems, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced the signing of a distribution and original equipment manufacturer agreement with Keyscan, a provider of access control hardware and software. Part of the agreement stipulates Keyscan providing a North American distribution of Cogent’s BioGate physical access biometric solutions including Search-Gate, Smart-Gate, SC-Gate and ID-Gate.

Through Keryscan’s network, Cogent’s products will have access to more than 40 distributors in North America and customers of the companies will be able to use Cogent’s Smart-Gate with Keyscan’s K-Secure AES smart cards as they will be pre-integrated. [end] 

AOptix Technologies announced that SITA, a specialist in air transport communications and information technology, has joined the AOptix Value Added Reseller program.

Under the partnership, SITA, who has customers in more than 200 countries which includes 300 airport locations, would be able to offer its customers AOptix solutions. These offerings include the InSight iris and face recognition product as an automated solution for airports to quickly and securely identify passengers at security checkpoints with documents such as biometric-enabled passports.

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MTS Healthcare has partnered with Indigo Identityware to become an authorized reseller of Indigo’s health care identity products.

MTS specializes in providing clinical cloud computing services, and with this partnership, will be able to offer Indigo’s cloud products, clinical EHR integration and backup and disaster recovery.

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Human recognition Systems announced a partnership with the Olive Group, a provider of safety, security and technology solutions, that will see the Olive Group distributing HRS’s solutions in the Middle East and North Africa regions.

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EarthSearch Communications has entered into a partnership agreement with Cynox, the Nigerian technology solutions provider, to monitor fuel levels in oil tankers.

In Nigeria, the cancellation of government oil subsidies has lead to increasing concerns over oil theft. EarthSearch’s integrated RFID and GPS product, together with level sensor technology will be used to monitor sudden drops in fuel level to detect the unauthorized siphoning of oil from the top of tanker.

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StarChip and CEA-Leti have inked a partnership agreement to develop a contactless front end for smart card applications.

The partnership includes technology and know-how transfer to StarChip. With this combined experience in secure integrated circuit development and contactless technology, StarChip will roll out state-of-the-art smart card products to enable applications in transport, banking and identity.

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Datacard Group announced a new partnership with DED Limited, a UK-based distributor of point-of-sale equipment, plastic card printers and specialty printers. The partnership will help expand the reach of the Datacard standard desktop ID solutions throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

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