Honeywell to license ImageWare for HSPD-12 efforts
Three-year, royalty-based licensing agreement follows on previous successes between the two companies
If you want to impress HS Daily Wire, it helps to deploy your products in unusual places. That is why we like to report about San Diego, California-based ImageWare, which has been a favorite of ours ever since it brought biometrics to the notoriously unruly Mexican prison system. That was a small contract, but it demonstrated the company’s flexibility and vigor, qualities that much larger companies like GE Security and Honeywell recognized recently by agreeing to buy ImageWare’s products for use in their respective HSPD-12 efforts.
Now we can report that Honeywell Security has been so satisfied with ImageWare’s biometric enrollment, card management, and card issuance that it has signed a three-year royalty-based licensing agreement for them. “We believe ImageWare’s open architecture and interoperable technologies will assist Honeywell in meeting the growing demand for biometric identity management,” said general manager John Lorenty. Under the agreement, ImageWare’s IWS Biometric Engine, IWS EPI Builder, and IWS EPI Card Management System will be integrated into several Honeywell physical access control product families, including Pro-Watch, SmartPlus, WIN-PAK, Vindicator, and LobbyWorks. As readers probably expect, the effort is part and parcel of Honeywell’s efforts in the HSPD-12 and TWIC initiatives.
-read more in this company news release
