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Fingerprint Cards has received an order worth SEK 20 M from its distributor in China and Taiwan, Hardware & Software Technologies Co. Ltd (HST). The order encompasses the FPC1011F3 area sensor. Delivery of the entire order is scheduled for 2013, partly in the first quarter and partly in the second quarter. As a result of…
Suprema Inc. has won a nationwide electronic passport project for the Mexico Government. The project, steered by Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE, Ministry of Exterior) of Mexico, is aimed to develop passport issuing system for 2.7 million electronic passports across all 32 states in Mexico including the Federal District of Mexico City. With the initial…
AOptix announced that it has appointed Scott Clark as the company’s Vice President of Operations to lead production of its Identity Solutions and Communications products. “Scott joins AOptix at an exciting time,” said Dean Senner, Chairman and CEO of AOptix. “We recently announced major new deployments of our identity verification systems and we’re gearing up…
The Automated Border Control System, the electronic border crossing gates or e-gates, at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, has processed nearly 1 million passengers and is on target to reach that milestone in December. The eGates, which were deployed in March 2012, were developed by Accenture and Vision-Box for the Netherlands Ministry of Internal Affairs and have reduced transit…
US Investigations Services Professional Services Division, Inc. (USIS PSD), a subsidiary of US Investigations Services, LLC (USIS), the largest commercial provider of background investigations to the federal government, has been awarded a prime contract by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), to provide biometric capture services in support of applications…
The highly advanced version of Cognitec Systems’ video screening product FaceVACS-VideoScan now employs leading-edge face detection technology to analyze the count, flow, demographics and behavior of people visible in video streams. Cognitec will exhibit the new technology, which can support security and operations management simultaneously, at ASIS International in Philadelphia, the Biometrics Consortium Conference in…
The Board of Human Recognition Systems (HRS) has confirmed the appointment of John Tonkiss in the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) taking responsibility for the Company's strategic relationships and partnerships moving forward. John Tonkiss is succeeding Neil Norman who has served Human Recognition Systems as CEO…
“As an investment strategy, I look for companies that are applying technology to positively impact people’s lives on a global scale,” said Kevin Compton, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. “AOptix is doing just that – solving problems no one else can through a rare combination of imagination, technology expertise and an experienced management team…