By Jeff Staples, ContactlessNews/AVISIAN Publisher

Having been involved in the advanced identification technology field for at least a dozen years, I have heard many times just how close a particular technology was to achieving wide-spread acceptance and deployment, only to see those promises fade along with numerous companies and their millions of dollars of investment. Times are certainly changing, and one advanced ID technology in particular has found many subtle, and some not so subtle, ways of helping us through the day. That technology is contactless.