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AllTrust implements solution at La Chiquita

Friday, January 8, 2010

AllTrust Networks, developers of biometric check cashing systems, has announced that its fingerprint-based check cashing service called Paycheck Secure has been implemented at six La Chiquita Express check cashing locations in Maryland.

La Chiquita Express is setup as a financial service center aimed at the Hispanic population who will only need a photo ID, two finger scans and provide a digital photograph to sign-up for the new biometric service.


La Chiquita hopes the new biometric system will help move lines quicker as it will make the manual identification verification that Chiquita used to do unnecessary. In addition to simply checking for the correct identity, AllTrust’s system also looks for known fraudsters that have been passing bad checks in the area. The Paycheck Secure system will not accept checks from these individuals. [end] 

Retail Pro International, a developer of retail industry management software solutions, has announced a partnership with biometric technology developer M2SYS.

The new partnership will see Retail Pro’s RightPOS solution, a point-of-sale-based solution for authenticating users of a register as they process transactions and for employee time and attendance, integrated with M2SYS’s Hybrid Biometric Platform. The partnership will enable any client using RightPOS to do away with employee passwords or PINs for authentication purposes.

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Auraya Systems announced the commercial release of its voice authentication solution called ArmorVox Speaker Identity System.

The solution, which was developed for system developers and call centers as either an enterprise or cloud-based solution, fuses text-independent and text-dependent voice-verification that automatically detect languages.

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OMNITROL Networks announced the launch of the next generation of its Retail Smart-Store software application, with integrated customer behavior analytics that provide retail stores with information to shift stock levels based on customer interaction.

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The General Services Administration (GSA) has implemented its first cloud-based physical access system at the Neal Smith Federal Building in Des Moines, Iowa.

The GSA contracted with BridgePoint Systems to utilize its TrustAlert Physical Access Control Systems. BridgePoint partnered with EmbarkIT to install the system, which replaced the GSA’s 10-year-old legacy system. The system leverages the GSA’s Kansas City, Missouri-based WAN and remote IT infrastructure, which allows the building to shrink its carbon footprint.

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SML Group Ltd announced the launch of its new “ViziT” RFID item visibility solutions for the retail apparel and item tracking applications.

The ViziT solutions include a range of RFID/EAS enabled paper and woven labels, as well as tickets and sticker that can be attached to garments and stacked items. Using the SML ViziT IT cloud based data management software also provides for semi automated inventory control, as well as improved loss prevention by triggering alarms and item identification at the store exit.

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Proclaiming its entrance into the RFID space, Honeywell introduced part of a new product portfolio designed to bring efficiency to the retail industry, the Optimus 5900 RFID mobile computer.

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