October 18, 2006
Enterprise Employee Smart Card Use
Who says large enterprise isn't warming up to RFID? German energy giant RWE recently completed the phase in of an ICMS (Identity and Card Management System) and contactless id badges for all 45,000 of their employees in 25 companies, over eight European countries. The solution was provided by vps Video Print Systeme. [More RFID via RFID Blog]
Interestingly, the European Union announced last year that they wanted a Europe-wide ban on RFID employee tracking. Cisco Systems was criticised last year for planning to track their employees with RFID tags embedded in their personnel uniforms. It should be noted that many large companies in North America have been using RFID-enabled contactless access passes for employess for over decade. These are not ID cards, but it is possible that each on contains a unique code, so a form of general tracking could be accomplished with these, every time an employee passes by an access area's reader.
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