March 25, 2014 – by Peter B. Counter
Zwipe is a manufacturer of a particularly cost and labor effective biometric physical access solution. The Zwipe biometric card features an embedded capacitive fingerprint sensor that authenticates on-card before allowing a smartcard reader (any and all ISO 14443 readers)to receive a positive signal, allowing access to critical areas.
Zwipe’s biometric access card solution promises to be secure, private and easy to deploy and will be on display at ISC West, booth #5055.
The company announced today that Robert Fee has been named Zwipe’s North American director of sales. Bringing over 20 years of related experience with him, Fee has worked in sales, both domestic and international, as well as marketing in technology fields. He most recently held the position of general manager in the Americas for LEGIC Identsystems AG.
Fee is particularly equipped for this career move, as he holds a Smart Card Industry Professional/Government certification from the Smart Card Alliance.
“We are very pleased to have Bob Fee join Zwipe in this capacity,” says Zwipe CEO Kim Humborstad. “He has a history of bringing new technological solutions to the market in a way that is helpful to OEMs and their marketing and sales channels. We encourage people that need the help of biometrics without having to install a biometrics reader infrastructure to contact Bob at once.”
“The Zwipe biometric card already has a pent-up demand among users,” says Fee. “Eliminating the problems of solely deploying PINs and standard cards, the contactless Zwipe biometric card quickly reads the user’s fingerprint in less than a second. Only then will the card system activate the lock. This is much more secure than simply using a standard smartcard, which verifies only something users carry, the smart card itself. I am looking forward to showing the industry a solution that does not require an existing biometrics infrastructure.”
This last point that Fee makes is an important one. Biometric physical access control, from a solutions provider perspective, seems to involve a war of convenience in terms of deployment. The three major adoption barriers that are regularly being identified by vendors are cost, administrator accessibility and ease of deployment. Zwipe’s offering, by virtue of it integrating into existing smartcard reader infrastructures, attacks all three of these in a single swipe.
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