Crescendo™ - one of HID Global's highlights on show at Security Essen

Stand 414 at SECURITY Essen 2008, 7 to 10 October 2008 

Key features:

• Crescendo reduces card management costs and increases user convenience by combining logical and physical access control in a single card.
• Crescendo increases productivity by saving costs and time on fewer tokens, fewer passwords and faster application access.
• Crescendo is a multi-technology smart card.  By incorporating HID's industry standard proximity technology (i.e., HID, Indala®), iCLASS®, and other 13.56 MHz technologies, Crescendo is a single card that can be easily deployed for both logical and physical access control applications.
• Crescendo also serves as an employee ID badge.
• Crescendo is Windows® and MacOS X compatible.
• Crescendo cards permit enhancing corporate identity and brand recognition.
• Crescendo smart cards require no additional per-seat middleware license.