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Prior to 2001, travelers and commuters in Paris were using tickets with a magnetic stripe to gain access to transportation services in and around Paris. Since that year, Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (or RATP), which is the major transit operator in Paris, has used Evolis Pebble ID card printers at each of its sales [...]
Furmano Foods is one of the many food processing facilities in the nation with a strong focus on plant security to protect the food it supplies to its customers and to the U.S. Department of Agriculture food programs. The company recently began looking to improve its ID program to allow it to have even tighter [...]
The Zebra ZXP Series 8 re-transfer printer is now available for purchase. The ZXP Series 8 card printer is Zebra’s first reverse transfer printer and offers single-sided (part number: Z81-000C0000US00) and dual sided (part number: Z82-000C0000US00) printer configurations with magnetic encoding, contact and contactless smart card encoding, and a media starter kit option. Armed with [...]
Within the next two years, European banks may eliminate the use of magnetic stripe encoding for their credit and debit cards and issue smart cards to their customers. Smart cards are gaining popularity for their ability to store a larger amount of data onto their microprocessor, which makes them ideal for securing highly sensitive information. [...]
Citizens in Kuwait can now obtain a national smart ID card that can be used for identification purposes, to replace credit cards for cashless payment, and, in the future, to store health medical records. The smart cards will include a personal photo, fingerprint and DNA data to verify the cardholder’s identity and allow for faster [...]
Smart cards are popular for their ability to store large amounts of information in the microchip embedded in them. This makes smart cards the preferred choice when there’s a need for a multipurpose card. It is for this reason that smart cards were chosen to for an all in one pass for tourists visiting [...]
The most common reason most organizations use ID cards is for visual security. With a simple glance, you can easily determine whether or not an individual should have access into your business. Adding a holographic overlaminate to your cards increases the security of the card itself by making it hard to tamper with or duplicate. [...]
While advancements in medical imaging technology has significantly improved patient care, X-rays and CT scans are a leading source of radiation exposure. In an effort to curb the related health risks, the United Nations is working to develop a smart card that would track the level of radiation patients are exposed to when receiving CT [...]
Soon all light-rail-transit commuters in Alberta, Canada could be using smart cards to pay for their train fare. In an upcoming pilot test, Alberta’s light-rail-transit company will issue smart cards with fares stored on the chip embedded in the card to over 200 University of Alberta employees. To access the trains, University of Alberta [...]
As with the United States’, Australia’s health care system may soon be supported by health care ID cards that store the patient’s medical records to improve patient care. Australian Health Minister Nicola Roxon believes the lack of instant access to necessary medical data for care providers to quickly and accurately diagnose and treat a patient [...]
