Port Security: Better Planning Needed To Develop And Operate Maritime Worker Identification Card Program
White Papers As part of a multilayered effort to strengthen port security, the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) of 2002 calls for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue a worker identification card that uses biological metrics, such as...
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) And Strategic Asset Management
White Papers The balance of this paper will examine how RFID can be used by construction, oil, engineering, manufacturing, utilities and transportation firms to drive increased value from their assets. Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is attracting lots of...
[June 5, 2007, 0:00]
RFID Technical Challenges And Reference Architecture
White Papers Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is increasingly being used in retail, pharmaceuticals, transportation, and defense. However, the usual concerns of security, scalability, availability, reliability, distributed management, and performance are...
[June 30, 2006, 0:00]
BEA RFID Technical Challenges And Reference Architecture
White Papers Already, RFID efforts are underway in the retail, pharmaceutical, transportation, defense, and consumer packaged goods industries. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is becoming a reality as modern supply chains come to require ever greater...
[February 7, 2006, 23:00]
Giesecke & Devrient GmbH Accelerates Development And Production With Content Management System
White Papers Giesecke & Devrient GmbH (G&D) is a leading provider of smart card technology and chip-card based solutions in the fields of telecommunications, electronic payment, healthcare, identification, transportation and IT security.
[March 16, 2007, 23:00]
Smart-card Ticketing Goes Underground
News TranSys, a consortium of companies led by Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS), designed the system and has so far outfitted 6,000 buses and 255 Tube stations to use the cards.
[November 20, 2002, 12:57]
Biometrics Meets Security At Comdex
News With United headquarters and one of the largest airports in America, O'Hare, nearby, we felt this technology venue was a good place for people from the transportation and security arenas to come together," said Eric Grodziski, spokesman for Comdex...
[March 7, 2002, 10:36]
Frequent Fliers: The Biometric Guinea Pigs
News Offering thumbprints, palm scans or iris checks will become "second nature" for anyone passing through an airport, said Richard Gritta, a professor of transportation and finance at University of Portland.
[March 27, 2002, 14:33]
Airport Security Technology Under Scrutiny
News Travelers will see increased security measures at our airports, train stations and other key sites," Transportation Secretary Norman Y. The technology is only as good as the people who use it.It's a mind-numbing experience to watch 300 bags cross...
[September 13, 2001, 14:40]
European Commission Keeping An Eye On RFID
News Gerald Santucci, head of the European Commission unit whose domain includes RFID issues, said he feared that rushing to place restrictions on industries hoping to use the technology would choke its potentially valuable application in health care...
[April 3, 2007, 9:17]
