SCM Microsystems to supply German eID readers

Wednesday, 07 July, 2010 (Age: 60 days)

SCM’s RFID-based contactless card readers form the core of Secure IT Kits that the German government will make available without charge to citizens, through its suppliers, to encourage the use of the electronic ID cards.

SCM Microsystems, a business unit of Identive Group, and a leading provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange, announced that more than 700,000 of its contactless smart card readers will be deployed to German citizens under the new electronic identification program managed by Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior (“Bundesministerium des Innern”).

Category: Biometrics, Smart Cards