Dates: June 21, 2007 Venue: Hellenic Centre Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada URL: http://www.actcda.com Contact: Andrea McMullen, andrea(AT)actcda.com, 905-426-6360 ext. 24
Description: Identity Management and Credentialing focus.
Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. and Summit Government Group have entered into an agreement to promote sales of the N37B rugged mobile computing device.
NPDT’s N37B rugged mobile computer is a device, certified by AT&T, for industrial applications such as inventory management, asset tracking, health care, law enforcement, field service/sales applications, and meter reading. In addition, the N37B is built to military standards, MIL-STD-461F and MIL-STD-810F, making it an ideal solution for government and military applications as well.
Digital Identification Solutions Group, through its UAE distributor Emirates Photo Marketing, has been awarded a seven-figured Euro contract for the supply of personalization systems and consumables to the Abu Dhabi Federal Government.
China Unicom has signed a $1.5 billion contract with the Chongqing Municipal Government to turn the city into the world center for NFC technology, according to The Register.
The Government of India is planning to implement an electronic tolling system, which would fit every vehicle with a passive RFID tag. Allowing cashless payments of highway tolls, RFID tags will be stuck to the windshield of every vehicle and readers equipped at each toll booth along India’s 71,000 (~44,000 mi) National Highways.
LaserCard Corp. has received a purchase order to supply additional optical security media cards for Italy’s Citizen ID Card program, known as the Carta d’Identità Elettronica or CIE, to be delivered by November 2010 at a value of $550,000. The ID cards are used by citizens for identification and travel.
A new report from Research and Markets has found that the number of EMV payment smart cards in circulation in Canada is expected to reach 54.8 million this year, representing 43.6% of all payment cards in use.