Bringing together companies who power secure identification to promote the use of hardware-based security.
Vision-Box® will supply a substantial number of next generation eGates to ports of entry to the UK for the next four years. Having previously installed 46 of the UK Border Force’s first generation eGates since 2009, Vision-Box® has now been awarded the contract to deploy up to 180 of the 2nd Generation of eGates, Vision-Box®…
Vision-Box®, has been awarded the contract and is currently deploying 64 multimodal eGates, (all equipped with face, iris and fingerprint biometric readers), to be installed at all terminals of the Hamad International Airport and to be integrated into the advanced Identity Management infrastructure of the Ministry of the Interior of the State of Qatar. The…
Certain passengers arriving at Dublin Airport are able to avail of self-service immigration control at Ireland's borders thanks to a pilot of automated border control (ABC) gates put in place by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service(INIS) and the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA). As part of this project, SITA's iBorders biometric gates use the latest…
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…
The Latvian Ministry of the Interior has chosen German IT infrastructure technology for the issue and verification of electronic identification documents. The Essen-based IT security company secunet Security Networks AG is providing the software for the new Latvian passport and migration information system. secunet will be assuming the role of subcontractor to the Riga-based technology…
At CeBIT, Bundesdruckerei will present its solutions and ideas for ID management in the analogue and digital world of today, tomorrow and far into the future. New applications and innovations for business, government and public authorities will go on show at Bundesdruckerei's booth. The new German ID card makes banking easier Together with its…
Travel documents are for terrorists just as important as weapons, according to the key finding from the 9/11 Commission Report. This is the reason border control systems based on biometric applications have become the solution of choice in identifying potential threats. There is also considerable emphasis on the identification of immigrants using e-Passports and e-Visas…
secunet won the German Federal Police's tender to establish the central certification authority for national border posts. The so-called DVCA (Document Verifying Certification Authority) provides central certificates that are necessary to check electronic identity documents at national border control posts. The data saved electronically in current identity documents, such as the new German ID card…