This week, students at the University of Alabama, Duke University and the University of Oklahoma began using an iPhone student ID as their official campus card. The new credential is stored in the Wallet app on the iPhones and Apple Watches students are already carrying on campus. The system was created jointly by Apple and […]

In partnership with the healthcare non-profit Khushi Baby, OT-Morpho is helping deploy wearable NFC technology to reach underserved communities in rural India in an attempt to improve prenatal care for expectant mothers and postnatal care for infants.

With the release of iOS 11, third-party developers will be able to work with the iPhone NFC chip for the first time. That is good news and a step in the right direction for the identity and security industry, but unfortunately it doesn’t appear to deliver on the ultimate goal … use of the handset […]

Defense Department taps Aware for biometric collection, screening; HID places NFC tags in New York and Easter Island for charity campaign; ImageWare and Aurionpro partner for biometric banking kiosks; Thursby released the new PKard Reader case for iPhone 6/6s.

The Nymi band has received a lot of attention since it was first announced three-years ago. The wearable, biometric band uses an individual’s electro cardiogram for authentication and then transmits the credential using NFC or BLE for physical or logical access.

The Smart Card Alliance released a white paper looking at non-payment use cases for near field communications technology. While the different payment schemes from Apple, Samsung and Google might receive all the attention there are numerous other applications for the communications protocol.

The spread of mobile is driving demand for creative mash-ups of proximity-based technologies. That’s why tech incubator AccelerateNFC and proximity ID company Flomio created TrackHack: The Proximity ID Hackathon.

Nok Nok Labs announced its latest version of the Nok Nok S3 Authentication Suite; Village Hotel in Glasgow launched a mobile app that aims to automate a guest’s stay; OpenSky has published the first in a series of white papers on how enterprises can protect their assets against cyber attacks; Arcanum Technology LLC announced the launch of the N-Kōd.

Hotels chains are exploring the use of NFC and Bluetooth Low Energy for guest access. Using these different technologies can offer hoteliers different benefits, including additional security, multi-application support and form-factor independence.

Evgeny Chereshnev, the global head of social media for IT security company Kaspersky Lab, was trying to figure out how individual’s can have better control over their personal information and decided on an experiment. It started with him implanting an NFC chip in his hand and trading in his work badge and he’s hoping it will to continue with more applications. Chereshnev spoke with Re:ID’s Gina Jordan about the experiment.