February 4, 2008—Axcess International Inc., a leading provider of wireless business activity monitoring solutions, is shipping a new type of corporate ID card that has comprehensive capabilities, the company has announced.
The multi-functional, long-range wireless card is called Dot Credential. It provides automatic “hands- free” building access control for individuals or groups; contractor time; and capture of attendance data that feeds into existing workforce management (WFM) systems and electronic asset-custodian assignments. These are a tagged asset linked to its owner’s card and emergency evacuation personnel to account for all persons in the event of a crisis.
By removing the need to present ID cards manually, Axcess’ automated cards make access more convenient and faster for employees, thus dramatically improving security, safety and efficiency measures, Axcess says. The standard size card has a small battery, antenna and Dot chip embedded into it to enable long-range automatic identification of personnel.
Existing manual access card IDs provide no benefit after the employee enters the facility, explains Axcess. Automated identification works from the time employees or contractors enters until the time they leave. With the dramatic increase in real time data, automated workforce management systems drive increased savings and better optimization of labor resources.
Beyond the wireless corporate ID, Dot technology serves as the heart of many new products from Axcess such as a long range bar code, an electronic property tag, a vehicle identification tag, an electronic cargo container seal, a wireless sensor transmitter and limitless other uses. It runs for years on a watch battery, stores at least three pages of information in memory and communicates to the world at high speed, all at a cost of only a few dollars each.
For more information, visit the Axcess Web site.
