Identification and security March/April 2004 In recent years there has been an increased use of identification checks as a security measure. Airlines always demand photo IDs, and hotels increasingly do so. They are often required for admittance ...
Iris recognition - debunking the myths March/April 2004 For thousands of years people have been using methods to identify themselves. Bronze Age amulets and the military passwords of Roman centurions are early examples. Needless to say, since these early times, ...
Digital records are not forever April 2004 (es), Storage Archiving paper records in digital format is touted as a long-term solution to the problems of filing and being able to find the millions of paper records companies in South Africa create each year. However, ...
New blown fibre solution from Molex April 2004, PCs & Workstations Global structured cabling manufacturer, Molex Premise Networks, has launched its new Laserstream blown fibre system. This blown fibre solution allows IT managers complete flexibility for both the implementation ...
Free machine vision seminar April 2004, Training & Education, Products & Solutions National Instruments is inviting interested parties to attend this free seminar. The live demonstrations are designed to help attendees make complicated machine vision issues simple.
Dr James Olive (PhD ...
Electronics test seminars highly successful 24 March 2004, News, Commercial (Industry) National Instruments South Africa hosted an Electronics Test Seminar in Durban and Midrand last month. Attracting some serious movers and shakers in the engineering and test management communities, the ...
Sun and AMD alliance to benefit local business 24 March 2004, News Sun Microsystems' alliance with processor manufacturer AMD will shortly result in the introduction of high-performance entry-level machines ideal for local businesses. That is according to Jos Nickmans, ...
Low voltage long-range ISM transceiver with embedded MCU and ADC 24 March 2004, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT Nordic's nRF9E5 and nRF905 components are designed for wireless transceiver applications in industrial as well as domestic environments in the frequency range 430-928 MHz. Typical uses include security ...
SMD thermistors claimed smallest 24 March 2004, Circuit & System Protection Murata claims its Posistors are the smallest in the world at 0603 size. For over-current prevention and overheat sensing, these positive-going thermistors offer a very rapid resistance increase when the ...
Reducing costs in Fieldbus I/O March 2004, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking As Fieldbus continues to grow throughout the processing and manufacturing industries, companies are continuously seeking for a more reliable and cost-effective solution for their installations. The new ...
AVBOB streamlines with digital process automation March 2004, Software Solutions, Information Security Digital Process Automation (DPA) solution provides 75% saving and increases revenues and customer satisfaction providing a competitive edge.
Leading insurance and funeral service provider, AVBOB Mutual ...
Electrical power systems modelling and simulation software 25 February 2004, Opti-Num Solutions, Design Automation The MathWorks has announced the availability of SimPowerSystems 3, which provides electrical engineers with a tool to model and simulate power systems with their controllers in the Simulink environment. ...
RF log detector delivers high dynamic range and precision over temperature 25 February 2004, CST Electronics, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT Claimed to be the industry's first RF log amplifier to fully cover the 0,1 to 2,5 GHz band with exceptional dynamic range and ±1dB precision over temperature, Maxim's MAX2015 device can be configured ...
Fingerprinting foreigners February 2004 Allocating the funds on compiling, sharing, and enforcing the terrorist watch list would be a far better security investment
The biometrics myth February 2004 Whenever users try to authenticate themselves, their fingerprint is compared to the stored version - and a match opens the doors to the system
OnGuard named 2003's best access control product February 2004 "This fully featured system, with a flexible open architecture, seamless integration possibilities, and using modern open communication combined with safe data encryption, is certainly an impressive development from Lenel."
Control valve training February 2004, Automation Control Solutions, Training & Education Control valves are the final and most influential element in the control loop. As part of Fisher Control's (Emerson Process Management) ongoing commitment to its southern African process industry customers, ...
African farm workers beat US Homeland Security to biometric identification February 2004 Long before the first USA-bound traveller scanned their finger in the US Department of Homeland Security's much trumpeted biometric security system, farm workers in rural South Africa were using biometrics ...
One million and counting February 2004 In the largest deployment of iris recognition to date, the United Arab Emirates requires iris-recognition tests on all passengers entering the UAE. Each passenger is compared with a watch list of 293 ...
Honeywell launches new access control system February 2004 The Northern NStar NS2 is a totally new access control system, available from Honeywell, designed to provide a cost-effective solution for entry level applications with the ability to seamlessly expand ...
