AXCESS Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: AXSI) a provider of intelligent electronic security surveillance systems today announced an electronic bracelet based on patented RFID technology that automatically identifies, tracks, and protects people. The bracelet was developed to satisfy existing orders, and will provide solutions for controlling prison populations, protecting newborn infants in hospital nurseries, alarming for wandering patients, among other applications. The bracelets are available for sale immediately and for general shipment in August.
The system is based on AXCESS' ActiveTag(TM) RFID system platform, which provides personnel and vehicle access control and tracking, and asset management applications to the security and logistics industries. Its uniqueness comes from the ability to "wake-up" the bracelet when it approaches a door or other security control point to automatically transmit wirelessly an ID and a request for the authority to open the door. The system is also characterized by a simple infrastructure of palm-sized receivers used to process the wireless signals. The receivers interface to standard security access control panels to make the system easy to implement.
"The bracelet or wrist-band tag is yet another example of the flexibility of our tagging technology to adapt to the unique needs of various industries, whether that is convenient access control to improve productivity, or more rigorous door control for specific personnel management and life safety," commented Allan Griebenow, President & CEO of AXCESS Inc. "These are sizable markets with defined needs. Conservatively, there are over 500 correctional facilities in North America housing over 600,000 minimum to medium security inmates, and over 5,000 hospitals that have a need for infant tagging."
ActiveTag(TM) is a high-performance, low-cost, "active" RFID solution for tracking assets, people and for "hands-free" access control for personnel and vehicles. It offers a flexible, scalable deployment of specialty tags and components that can address a variety of enterprise-wide needs within the same networked RFID infrastructure. Small activation antennas create a localized 3D "wake-up" field, typically at doors, entrances to corridors or any other designated "portal". Tags or bracelets can also be programmed to beacon at set intervals to enable real-time location and tracking. The anti-tamper feature alerts the system to any attempt to remove the tag. And, tags are linked in software to facility tags in hallways and doorways to catch any person moving without a bracelet. Tags of different varieties can be directly linked, for example to provide a custodial relationship between personnel, between personnel and assets, and between personnel and vehicles. Tag data is delivered directly to the security control panel or via network to the AXCESS ActiveTrac(TM) software or the third party software of security integrators and asset management companies.
More information is available on the company's web site at www.axsi.com.
About AXCESS Inc.
AXCESS International Inc. (AXCESS Inc.), headquartered in greater Dallas, Texas, provides intelligent electronic security surveillance systems that locate, identify, track, monitor, count, and protect people, assets, and vehicles. The network-based systems reduce loss, liability, and security system costs, while boosting effectiveness and extending system coverage. AXCESS utilizes two patented and integrated technologies: battery-powered wireless tagging (commonly referred to as Active-Radio Frequency Identification or RFID) and network-based, streaming digital video (or CCTV). A particular focus is on automatic incident detection, recording, and notification. The main applications are network-based security video recording and surveillance, automatic personnel and vehicle access control, and automatic electronic article surveillance (EAS) asset management and protection. AXCESS is a VennWorks LLC partner company.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe-harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. The Company has no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this news release.
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