LEGIC partners with Securit World to offer advanced contactless solutions

LEGIC partners with Securit World to offer advanced contactless solutions

A wider offer of solutions for personal identification based on LEGIC contactless smart card technology will be made available. This new partnership supports the UK market’s growing demand for LEGIC applications.

Zurich, January 2009 – LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, the leading manufacturer of contactless smart card systems for personal identification applications and Securit World Ltd, leading suppliers of ID systems and printers, have agreed on a new licence contract. This will result in a broad range of products using LEGIC highly secure contactless technology and benefiting from Securit World distribution experience. Following this agreement, Securit World will be purchasing from several leading license partners.

LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, the leading manufacturer of contactless smart card systems for personal identification applications and Securit World Ltd, leading suppliers of ID systems and printers, have agreed on a new licence contract. This will result in a broad range of products using LEGIC highly secure contactless technology and benefiting from Securit World distribution experience. Following this agreement, Securit World will be purchasing from several leading license partners.

“The new partnership helps us to cover the growing demand for LEGIC in the United Kingdom and to widen our possibilities and expertise to our customers to enable them to choose the right credential solution”, says Dr Otto Eggimann, Vice President Sales and Business Development of LEGIC.

The partnership with Securit World will present end-users in the United Kingdom with a broader variety of products offering LEGIC technology. “End-users will benefit from the large choice of credentials designed to fit all the access control and security applications”, explains Ed Heyden, Managing Director of Securit World.

The partnership with Securit World will present end-users in the United Kingdom with a broader variety of products offering LEGIC technology. “End-users will benefit from the large choice of credentials designed to fit all the access control and security applications”, explains Ed Heyden, Managing Director of Securit World.

All LEGIC advanced contactless solutions offer a powerful, comfortable and secure all-in-one card platform to increase efficiency and provide innovative business processes. The authorization management can indeed be covered for up to 127 different applications offering endless combinations in state-of-the-art security for end-users. Security is a major priority and LEGIC unique Master-Token System Control guarantees centralized and control over all issued identification credentials.

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About Securit World Ltd

London-based Securit World Ltd has been at the forefront of the ID card technology for 15 years, supplying ID systems and printers for the production of high-quality photo ID cards and visitor passes. Working with over 3,000 organisations, the company covers applications for low-volume users through to the high-volume production of national identity cards and driving licenses.

About LEGICĀ® Identsystems Ltd

LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, with headquarters in Switzerland, is the world leader in the design and manufacture of 13.56 MHz contactless smart card technology. The LEGIC product portfolio includes highly integrated LEGIC RF Standard, ISO 15693 and ISO 14443 compliant read/write chip sets, security modules and transponder chips.

LEGIC Identsystems currently works with over 200 external co-operation partners world-wide who offer compatible LEGIC all-in-one-card applications including access control, e-payment, parking, e-ticketing and other multiapplications. More than 1 million readers and over 70 million credentials are successfully integrated in more than 50,000 work and leisure places worldwide.

Further information:

Leon Rose
Area Sales Manager
LEGIC Identsystems Ltd
Tel: +41 44 933 6464
lrose@legic.com

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