?Access control refers to the process of granting access to certain entities or persons and refusing access to others. Access used to be primarily physical and was controlled via gates, locks, and ...

There are a number of reasons why healthcare and educational institutions wish to keep their campuses secure, including student, patient and employee safety and document security. No organization ...

Millions of proximity (Prox) access control cards are in use today in myriad applications. Most commonly, proximity cards are used for access to apartment complexes, gated communities, parking areas ...

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PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J.—With the goal of spreading adoption of smart card technology for physical access control, the Smart Card Alliance has embarked on an effort to define in a white paper best ...

AUNDH, India—Future Market Insights, a research firm based here, projects that the card-based electronic access control market in North America will grow from around $2 billion in 2014 to $3 billion ...

HID Corp., Irvine, Calif., says it has reached “a significant milestone” in its history with the recent shipment of its 200 millionth access control card (including keys and fobs). Recipient was the ...

Learn about campus access controls, how request ID card access for individual person to locked doors or request a modification to administration or academic building hours to change open door schedule ...

A partnership between HID, manufacturer of contactless access control cards and readers, and video network solutions provider Axis Communications will give Axis’ partners the ability to integrate ...

Norwegian startup Zwipe is marketing a new passive Near Field Communication (NFC) RFID access-control card that incorporates a fingerprint scanner to authenticate an individual before the card ...

The most common access card worldwide is a proximity card. Proximity cards contain a computer chip that receives radio frequency energy from the reader, and its processor transmits the card number to ...