San Jose-based InSync Software has raised an additional $3 million in venture capitol to fund its Edgeware software platform. The platform is designed to enable the deployment RFID and sensor-enabled warehousing and logistics automation solutions. Last month, InSync announced that Bayer Material Science, one of the world’s largest producers of polymers and high-performance plastics, had […]

Researchers at the Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology and the S J College of Engineering in India have claimed to develop gait biometrics, a modality that identifies individuals from their style of walking, according to VNUNet.com. By taking a series of side view shots of someone’s walk cycle in conjunction with their body […]

Lockheed Martin is cooperating with Cognitec Systems, facial recognition experts, in the rapidly growing marketplace of biometrics solutions. Lockheed Martin is incorporating multiple biometrics techniques – including fingerprint, facial and iris scanning – into their operations. In May, the corporation opened its Biometric Experimentation and Advanced Concepts (BEACON) facility in White Hall, WV, to serve […]

Lockheed Martin and IriTech have partnered together to provide integrated biometrics solutions for its customers. Lockheed Martin recently opened its Biometric Experimentation and Advanced Concepts (BEACON) facility in White Hall, WV, to serve as a collaborative center to develop integrated biometrics solutions. BEACON provides a laboratory environment where technologies such as IriTech’s can be integrated […]

“RFID tags, commonly referred to as smart tags, have the ability to improve logistics, profoundly change cost structures for business, and improve the current levels of safety and authenticity of the international pharmaceutical supply chain and many other industries,” says Robert C. Crestani, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, upon the news of NIST’s new […]

Progressing toward HSPD-12 compliance, the Department of Health and Human Services has selected Lockheed Martin’s BioUnique(TM) Identity Framework for a trial implementation. The tests will involve four agency sites and up to 1000 staffers. Department of Health and Human Services Awards Contract to Lockheed Martin for HSPD-12 Technology ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ – The […]

A FIPS 201-compliant solution from Saflink and Johnson Controls is on display at an ‘evaluation lab’ at Saflink’s facility in Reston, Virginia. Interested parties can visit the lab and see the solution that was originally developed for the TSA’s TWIC program. Saflink Announces FIPS 201 Evaluation Lab All-Weather Biometric PIV Solution Showcased With Johnson Controls […]

A number of government agencies are hosting a workshop to determine how biometrics can be used for remote e-authentication over open networks by providing equivalent authentication assurance to the conventional secret-based mechanisms defined in NIST Special Publication 800-63, for each of four authentication level. The dates, location, and website are as follows: Dates: March 30-31, […]

It takes a lot to keep biometric research down. And some concerns about privacy issues won’t stop researchers from exploring the potential of gait biometrics. The possibility of being able to identify someone from far off with a basic video camera has its uses. It’s just a matter of perfecting it, as always. Read the […]

Seeking a uniform transit fare standard–that’s open source, no less–is a yeoman’s job, but one that a task force of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has willingly undertaken. Someday, all transportation agencies may have the ability to have interoperable regional smart card systems. The future could be one in which a single smart card […]