Bull and Americam Target US Market for Smart Card-based Secure Building Access Control Systems.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1999-- Bull supplying cards for Americam's access control systems, which are already used throughout Canada in manufacturing, loyalty, education and transportation installations Bull and Americam announced today here at CardTech-SecurTech that they have teamed up as partners to market Americam's family of smart-card based secure building access control systems in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Americam is demonstrating some of its products at Bull's booth at the show. Americam's building access control system, called SECUR, is designed to support multiple applications. Secur allows authorized persons authorized person Lab medicine A person–eg a physician, who orders tests and receives test results on persons for whom payment is sought under Medicare. See CLIA 88. to access educational establishments, university residences, municipal and governmental buildings, and private enterprises, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the management schedule. The authorized persons identification can be done by code or by biometric references encrypted en·crypt tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts 1. To put into code or cipher. 2. Computer Science into the card (e.g., fingerprints, signature). With Secur's customizable Access Control module: -- Multiple access groups can be created to provide restricted access to specific areas for predefined working schedules -- Notification can be provided upon every entrance to the site for the specified individuals -- All doors can be unlocked in case of emergency -- System status can be checked at anytime via a software interface. -- Area management can be performed, which, at anytime, allows capacity of a specific site to be controlled as well as identifying the whereabouts of a specific. Reports are provided that track various user-defined statistics regarding access to designated areas. "The Secur system supports multiple applications, which makes the system ideal for the US market," said Eric Levesque, director of R&D for Americam. "For example, you can buy lunch at the cafeteria with your card. Delivery actions can be controlled. Employees can even announce in advance a visitor via an intranet so that it's easier and faster to prepare a smart card for a visitor on the given date. We're pleased to be working with a partner as strong as Bull to help us meet our technology and market objectives." At Bull's booth at CardTech-SecurTech, Americam is using a panel with two access control terminals and a door to show how its access control system works. A laptop, used as the terminal server, demonstrates how the network works. The management application is also included in the software. About Americam Based in Sherbrooke, Quebec “Sherbrooke” redirects here. For other uses, see Sherbrooke (disambiguation). Sherbrooke (2006 population: 147,427) is a city in south-eastern Quebec, Canada, the only major city in the Eastern Townships. , Canada, Americam Inc.'s field of activity includes terminals, readers and software design to apply computer solutions with high levels of security using smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. as an information medium. Americam develops applications using contact and/or contactless smart cards A smart card that uses radio frequencies to provide a wireless connection to the reader. The transmission range is only a couple of inches, but allows the card to be quickly passed by a reader in applications such as secured entrances. See smart card and UltraCard. as well as peripheral devices See peripheral. peripheral device - peripheral and specific management applications and networks. Information is available via http://www.americam.qc.ca and via email at info@americam.qc.ca. By strategic agreements and technological, industrial and commercial partnerships, Americam. benefits from international partnerships. Well known for its high memory capacity (almost endlessly rewriteable) and for the security that can be provided to it, the smart card is the preferential medium for a portable file; information intended to access control; one or many electronic purses. Representative customers include: -- Loyalty card application for administrative region of retailer "La Mauricie" in Quebec; 500 terminals and 30,000 cards are being used. -- Manufacturing multiple service applications: Domtar Winsor in Quebec and Domtar Cornwall in Ontario, Canada and also for Bull in Phoenix, Ariz. These applications are using contactless and hybrid smart cards to control the access to the buildings, to pay at the cafeteria, to manage security, etc. -- Academic applications called Campuce are used to control the access to buildings, the attendance and electronic purses used to pay different services like fax, photocopies and other types of services. Clients using Campuce include: Sherbrooke College: 5,000 smart cards and 16 terminals; Triolet tri·o·let n. A poem or stanza of eight lines with a rhyme scheme abaaabab, in which the fourth and seventh lines are the same as the first, and the eighth line is the same as the second. : 2,500 smart cards and 85 terminals; Champlain Regional College Champlain Regional College was founded in 1971 and named in honour of Samuel de Champlain, the first governor of New France. He was a man whose accomplishments reflect the strength of his intellect, the breadth of his imagination and the quality of his judgement. : 500 smart cards and 2 terminals; and ITHQ ITHQ Institut de Tourisme et d'Hôtellerie du Québec : 2,500 smart cards and 10 terminals. -- Transportation application for the CMTS (Cable Modem Termination System) A computerized device that enables cable modems to send and receive packets over the Internet. It inserts IP packets from the Internet into MPEG frames and transmits them to the cable modems via an RF signal. in Sherbrooke, Canada, including hybrid terminal (contact and contactless smart card reader) with a GPS module and an infrared communication module. An experimental project used on 10 buses with 350 contactless smart cards and 350 contact smart cards appears to be successful. The project will spread out this summer with 80 buses and 20,000 cards. -- Smart card vending machine vending machine, coin-operated, automatic device for selling goods. Many vending machines are capable of making change, and some of the more sophisticated ones accept paper money or credit cards. application and a train ticket dispenser for Laniel Canada, 250 machines. About Bull Smart Cards & Terminals Bull Smart Cards & Terminals is the industry leader in the field of secured financial transactions. Bull designs, develops and markets global smart card solutions for financial, loyalty, transport, telecommunications, healthcare and other applications. Products include contact-contactless cards plus a full range of general purpose and EFT/POS terminals (in partnership with Ingenico), automated teller machines automated teller machine (ATM), device used by bank customers to process account transactions. Typically, a user inserts into the ATM a special plastic card that is encoded with information on a magnetic strip. , as well as associated software and services. Bull Smart Cards & Terminals is the acknowledged industry leader in research, development and security related to smart cards & related terminals. The company is also the worldwide leader in electronic purse cards. Since inventing the microprocessor smart card in 1976, Bull has obtained more than 1,200 patents in the field, and has received certification for smart card security that is the highest level ever achieved by a smart card. In 1998, Bull Smart Cards & Terminals had revenue of $246 million. By relying on Bull's international network, the division achieves 80% of the revenue abroad. More information on Bull Smart Cards & Terminals can be found on the World Wide Web at: www.cp8.bull.net, on Groupe Bull Groupe Bull (also known as Bull Computer or simply Bull) is a French computer company based in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, outside Paris. The company has also been known at various times as Bull General Electric, Honeywell Bull, CII Honeywell Bull Web site: www.bull.com, and in the U.S. at www.us.bull.com. About Bull Bull is an international IT group that delivers secure information solutions for the enterprise and its customers. Bull's business portfolio is focused in three key domains: enterprise-class servers, IT services and new technologies - smart cards and software for systems management and Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. . In 1998, Bull earned revenue of $4.3 billion, with more than 65 percent outside of France, its country of origin. Bull can be found in 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.bull.com. CP8 is a registered trademark of Bull Inc. All registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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