Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

LEGIC partners with Dutch ID solutions provider; intros new contactless locks

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

LEGIC has announced the release of a new contactless locking system, as well as a new partnership with Magna Carta, the Netherland’s largest cashless vendor.

Magna Carta is a global supplier of contactless identification solutions for the education, health care, leisure, government and business environment, working in applications such as catering, vending, access control, ticketing, parking, photocopying, cashless payment, time registration and transaction systems.


According to LEGIC, several multi-application projects based on contactless LEGIC smart card technology have already been realized with Magna Carta.

LEGIC has also been working with data mobile, an Austrian supplier of hardware and software solutions for security technology, to deliver a new wireless locking system based on contactless technology.

The technological core of the solution is LEGIC’s contactless reader chip “lockstar,” which was specially developed for battery-operated offline locks with low energy consumption requirements.

The solution, which uses a single smart card for locking and unlocking, can be installed on traditional lockers, office furniture, medicine cabinets, or key cabinets. [end] 

The Dutch Ministry of Defense (MoD) has chosen Identive’s SmartFold smart card readers to provide secure remote network access for its employees.

The agency has a lot of restricted and sensitive data that has particular management requirements. The MoD felt that the Identive contact smart card reader would provide the desired level of security, yet be flexible enough to incorporate into the existing network security infrastructure.

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K-Plussa launched an upgraded, contactless version of its cash card to provide a faster and easier shopping experience for costumers at the checkout. K-Plussa is a customer loyalty programmed in Finland offering benefits to its customers from over 3,000 shopping places and over 40 business partners.

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Datacard Group, a provider of secure ID and card personalization solutions, has announced an equity investment and strategic partnership with DeviceFidelity, makers of the In2Pay mobile payments solution.

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A new survey from Euro Kartensysteme shows that Germans are starting to embrace the idea of contactless and NFC payments.

Out of 1,040 Germans aged 18-59, 43% responded that they would like to make contactless payments if given the opportunity, of which 58% percent would make their payments with a debit card card, 41% with a credit card and 50% with an NFC phone.

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Switzerland’s LEGIC has announced two new partnerships that will bring the company’s contactless smart card technology to China.

Radio Frequency Systems, a manufacturer of contactless smart card technology, will use the LEGIC advant 4000 chip generation to create new reader modules for access control applications.

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VingCard Elsafe, provider of hospitality security and part of ASSA ABLOY Group, has been selected by Grand Hyatt San Francisco to provide a complete package of VingCard Elsafe solutions for installation as part of the renovation of its 659 guestrooms.

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