Mark Allen, marketing manager at Kaba, talks about the company’s E-Plex 5800 series and its compatibility with FIPS 201-compatible credentials. He says the locks enable organizations to choose if they want a simple or sophisticated system based on its particular security requirements.

Duke University launched a mobile application for iPhones that enables students to find out news around campus, the closest dining hall and hours of operations. The university also wanted to add some campus card functionality to the app as well, says Matthew Drummond, director at the DukeCard Office. “We wanted to provide a campus card […]

Bret Tobey, product manager for Intelligent Openings Business Development at ASSA ABLOY Americas, talks about a new set of locks he calls “near online.” These locks are similar to off-line locks of the past except they include some network components that remove some of the manual tasks associated with some older off-line locks. “Now we […]

Sarnoff Corp. aims to make iris technology easier to use without having to stop and look at a camera, says David Cheskis from the iris vendor. “We can do 30 people per minute without constraining them,” he says. The company has managed to do this through a patented technology that includes many features. “We use […]

SecuGen has one focus, fingerprint biometrics, says Jeffrey Brown, vice president of sales and marketing at the company. The company manufacturers its optical fingerprint scanners and also produces its own matching algorithms for use in many markets, devices and surroundings. “They’re used in very difficult environments,” Brown says. “Dirty, hot and humid environments. People put […]

The University of Alberta wanted a way to make sure students who needed the H1N1 vaccines were receiving them. Fred Emery, vice president and general manager at Heartland Campus Solutions, talks about how the university used its OneCardVerify system to make sure the authorized students received the medication. “They utilized OneCardVerify to keep track of […]

RF IDeas’s has released a product that enables organizations and systems integrators to quickly and easily find out what type of access control badges are in circulation. The analyzer, a USB dongle, simply reads the card and gives a read out of the manufacturer and type of card being read, says Ron Fiedler, director of […]

Digital identity can be different things to different people. At the 2010 RSA Conference industry executives gave their definitions of what digital identity is and some of the challenges that exist when it comes to putting a digital ID system in place.

The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. has deployed an application to make sure only students ride the school’s bus system between its campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis, says Read Winkelman, vice president of sales at CBORD. The buses are equipped with wireless access control readers that connect to access control panels […]

Governments and organizations are wanting more than one technology on a credential, says Stephen Price-Francis, vice president of marketing at LaserCard. The company was at the Smart Card Alliance conference talking about multi-technology IDs and the different technology it’s putting in a card. “Multi-technology cards combine our technology, which is optical security media, with various […]