Polaroid Commercial ID Systems Introduces New Digital ID Card Printers

“Polaroid Corporation today announced two new Digital ID Card Printers, the P50i and P75i. Both card printers utilize Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to enhance ease of use, optimize image quality, and allow for automatic driver configuration and automatic ribbon detection.”

Innovative Facility Applies New Inmate Identification and Officer Access Control System

NEW ORLEANS, LA (September 15, 2003) – The Pima County Jail in Tucson, Arizona today announced it has adopted 13.56 MHz tags, cards and readers from Texas Instruments Radio Frequency Identification (TI-RFid™) Systems for prisoner identification and officer access as part of a comprehensive security upgrade and the addition of 147,000 square-feet of new building space. Up to 1,600 prisoners will be identified and monitored daily via wristbands embedded with a TI-RFid smart label, and more than 300 prison officers will use TI-RFid-based cards to gain access to restricted areas in the facility. 

13.56 MHz Smart Labels Used for Access Control, Attendance, Asset Management and Cashless Purchases

NEW ORLEANS, LA (September 15, 2003) – The Enterprise Charter School in Buffalo, New York, founded in 2002 with an innovative interdisciplinary approach to learning, is applying that same philosophy to managing their human resources and physical assets. The public school’s more than 450 staff and students in grades K-8 are using a new identification card for access control and time and attendance that incorporates 13.56 MHz contactless radio frequency identification (RFID) technology from Texas Instruments Radio Frequency Identification (TI-RFid™) Systems. The school will use TI-RFid 13.56 MHz smart labels to identify and secure assets such as library books, laptop computers and other items. Students will also be able to make selected purchases in the cafeteria using their identification cards. 

SANTA ANA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 15, 2003–Hirsch Electronics announces a new line of high security access control devices using smart ID cards. ScrambleSmart(TM) integrates a hidden contactless reader into Hirsch’s ScramblePad(R), while BioSmart(TM) integrates the smart card reader into the industry’s most popular biometric device, a fingerprint reader. 

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Sentry Technology Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: SKVY) announced today, the upgrade of SmartTrack Mobile introduced this week at the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) conference in New Orleans. SmartTrack Mobile allows the user to view and control video images from SmartTrack, Sentry’s traveling CCTV system using a mobile hand held computer and wireless communication network.  The original SmartTrack Mobile product released last year, operates on a wireless Personal Digital Assist (PDA) using Windows CE. The new version now runs on the latest, tablet style wireless computer under Windows XP.  SmartTrack Mobile running on Windows XP is significantly faster than the earlier PDA version. The increased speed and computing power offered by the tablet gives the user real time video viewing. Customers are no longer required to sit in front of a video console to manage the SmartTrack system.
   
“With SmartTrack Remote, customers are free to move about any facility while maintaining full control of all SmartTrack system functions,” said Peter L. Murdoch, President and CEO of Sentry Technology Corporation. “Now that mobile, real time video has been achieved, Sentry is in the process of developing a series of products to sit on top of the SmartTrack Remote software platform. We expect these new products will broaden the market for use of SmartTrack in retail stores”.
   
Sentry Technology Corporation designs, manufactures, sells and installs a complete line of Radio Frequency (RF) and Electro-Magnetic (EM) EAS systems and Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) solutions.  The CCTV product line features SentryVision(R), a proprietary, patented traveling Surveillance System. The Company’s products are used by retailers to deter shoplifting and internal theft and by industrial and institutional customers to protect assets and people. The recent partnership with Dialoc ID Holdings BV expands the Company’s product offering to include RFID and proximity Access Control solutions. For further information please visit our website at http://www.sentrytechnology.com/.
 

If you utilize an ID card for access control, there is a good chance that you have heard the term Weigand (pronounced wee-gand). Typically, it is used in the context of “Weigand output,” “Weigand standard,” “Weigand encoding,” or “Weigand numbering scheme.” And more than likely, it has made the people at your organization responsible for card orders, security systems, and card issuance systems nervous at some point in time. That is because, while many people have heard the term, few understand its significance. 

Nearly everyone anticipated proximity card technology would be utilized when Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA began evaluating a new access control system for the 3700 student campus. A new academic center was under construction and campus officials wanted this building, as well as the five freshman dormitories, to be secured via a card-based access system. But by the time the campus began issuing the new cards in the fall of 2002, prox technology had been leapfrogged in favor of the more advanced contactless smart card technology. In the process, Mercyhurst became one of the first campuses in North America to implement contactless smart card technology.