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RFID, or radio frequency identification, helps identify and track people, animals and objects in a multitude of applications and markets. As one of the world’s leading suppliers of tags, labels and stickers, Identive has the answers you seek when it comes to RFID.
Record Number of Healthcare Facility Public-Safety Related Deaths in 2012
Hospitals are becoming a more dangerous place to work, according to a report published by the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety. IAHSS reports that the number of homicides at member facilities is the highest for the 20 years it has been keeping such statistics. According to the report, in addition to the 8 reported deaths, healthcare facility crime increased in nearly every category since the most recent survey in 2010, with significant rise in the number of simple assaults, larceny and thefts, vandalism, rape and other sexual assaults. A...
Read More Leave A CommentConsolidating Multiple Access Control Systems
Question: Over the years, my company has deployed or inherited several access control systems, including a couple by a manufacturer who has discontinued the product I use. Not a “perfect picture” to say the least. My traveling personnel need to carry multiple cards, and managing them in these various systems is a challenge. Is there any way to consolidate cards and user management across these systems? Answer: First of all, you are not alone. This is an issue faced by many organizations. Many of these legacy systems were deployed before...
Read More Leave A CommentIdentive Introduces Innovative Payment Tag for Mobile Phones
• Patent-pending peel & stick RFID tag enables contactless payments on current generation smartphones • Technology utilizes standard card production processes SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 22, 2012 – Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt: INV), a provider of products and services for the identification, security and RFID industries, today announced tomPAY™, an innovative radio frequency identification (RFID) peel & stick tag that allows payment card manufacturers to offer contactless payment capabilities using consumers’ existing mobile devices. The new tag is being showcased at the NFC Solutions Summit, a conference and exhibit...
Read More Leave A CommentIdentive Introduces Cloud-Based NFC Tag Management
- Scalable platform enables dynamic updates, personalization of content. - Innovative user mobile app offers rich NFC experience. SANTA ANA, Calif. and ISMANING, Germany, May 17, 2012 – Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt:INV), a provider of products and services for the identification, payment and NFC mobility markets, today announced the release of its cloud-based near field communication (NFC) tag management platform, which allows advertisers, retailers and organizations in the education, hospitality and other markets to manage the delivery of dynamic, targeted content and services to consumers’ NFC-enabled mobile devices....
Read More Leave A CommentTerry Gold of idOnDemand to Present at BSidesROC 2012
Terry Gold, Vice President of idOnDemand (an Identive business unit), will be presenting at the 2012 Security B-Sides Rochester event this weekend on May 12. In the session entitled “RFIDLOL,” he will discuss the use of RFID access cards as means of securing entry points. Highly convenient, relatively inexpensive and generally assumed to be secure, the session will explain how these cards are programmed, what their vulnerabilities are, and the choices available to secure them. During the hour-long talk, Terry will demonstrate how the most common access card can be hacked, cloned,...
Read More Leave A CommentNFC and the War on Cash
Cash as the physical embodiment of money or value is inefficient. It is also expensive to use, considering theft, fraud, security and costs associated with its physical handling: from armored cars to secure sorting facilities, to bank branch costs, and servicing and replenishing ATMs. Plastic money in the form of credit and debit cards has exploited the inefficiency of cash for many decades and can indeed help solve many of the problems associated with cash. But even cards are not without problems. There are issues of transaction fees, eligibility and...
Read More Leave A CommentIdentive to Launch SmartCore™ at ICMA Expo in Miami
SANTA ANA, Calif. and ISMANING, Germany, Apr 12, 2012 – Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt:INV), a provider of products and services for the identification, security and RFID industries, today announces the US launch of SmartCore™, an innovative RFID (radio frequency identification) card core manufacturing technology that enables unmatched surface quality and printability of contactless ID and access cards. An RFID card core consists of an integrated circuit (IC) connected to an antenna covered by protective layers, and functions as the heart of a contactless card. Since its introduction late last...
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