ISC West, the largest physical security tradeshow in North America, once again was home to more than 10,000 new product introductions. Here are a few of the visitor management solutions introduced this year, from smart card readers to ID badges and more.
The city of Hartford plans to introduce municipal identification cards to give undocumented immigrants, the homeless and other residents easier access to city services.
Henan University of Technology in Henan province and Minjiang University in Fujian province have set up a facial recognition systems to monitor student absence rates.
More than 1.9 billion mobile boarding passes will be used by 2019, compared to 745 million estimated to be delivered in 2015 alone, Jupiter Research reports.
North Dakota college students are protesting a bill that would require issuing student ID cards with the student’s date of birth and address to create another acceptable form of identification for voting.
Though biometric analytics have been around for a few years now, Apple and Samsung’s recent introduction of fingerprint readers to their newest mobile devices prove that biometric security systems are going to be more and more commonplace in the public sector. The research organization Goode Intelligence estimates that biometric authentication will be on most mobile devices by the end of 2015 and that by 2019, it will be used by 5.5 billion people worldwide. Familiarity with biometric analytics means ease of use for employees and consumers alike.
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