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Monday, July 21, 2008

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HID Global has announced the successful completion of the world’s first university pilot of NFC smart phones carrying digital keys.

First announced in September, the pilot involved a select group of students and staff at Arizona State University using NFC-enabled smart phones equipped with HID’s Secure Identity Object (SIO) Technology. Participants could gain access to their residence halls and other secure access areas by tapping their handset against a reader embedded in the door and entering a PIN, rather than use their plastic campus card.

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The CBORD Group Inc. and Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies have teamed together to integrate CBORD’s CS Access access control solution and Schlage’s CO-Series offline electronic locks.

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Sony has unveiled a new line of NFC Xperia SmartTags that can be used with NFC-enabled phones to perform a variety of functions, according to CNet.

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Hamden, Conn.-based Quinnipiac University has experienced steady growth in recent years which necessitated expansion beyond its main campus. This expansion comes with the need to provide additional security for university personnel, as well as the nearly 8,000 students that live in campus residence halls.

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Wireless locks from ASSA ABLOY’s Aperio line can now be used within Keri Systems’ Doors.NET physical security offering. Customers can mix and match the Aperio wireless readers and the Keri TCP/IP-based NXT readers to get the ideal functionality at each door.

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Verizon Wireless is working with two ASSA ABLOY companies – HID Global and Yale Locks & Hardware – to demonstrate the benefits of smart phones carrying mobile keys.

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