New Dot Wireless ID Card

Axcess International Inc. today announced it is shipping a new type of ID card with comprehensive capabilities. The multi-functional, long range wireless card, called Dot Credential, provides automatic "hands-free" building access control for individuals or groups, contractor time and attendance data capture that feeds into existing workforce management (WFM) systems, electronic asset-custodian assignments that link a tagged asset to its owner's card and emergency evacuation personnel tracking to account for all persons in the event of a crisis. Compatible with existing access control system infrastructures, the Dot Credential interfaces easily with WFM systems and sells at a remarkably low price of $7.95 (MSRP) per card. Axcess' system has successfully been deployed in government and commercial industry including oil and gas plants, manufacturing facilities and office buildings. 

Dot Credential: Multi-Functional, Long Range Wireless Card
By removing the need to present ID cards manually, Axcess' automated cards make access more convenient and faster for employees, thus dramatically improving security, safety and efficiency measures. The standard size card has a small battery, antenna and Dot chip embedded into it to enable long range automatic identification of personnel.

"Existing manual access card IDs provide no benefit after the employee enters the facility. Automated identification works from the time the employee or contractor enters until the time they leave," said Allan Griebenow, president and CEO of Axcess International. "With the dramatic increase in real time data, automated workforce management systems drive increased savings and better optimization of labor resources. This combined with improved security and safety is an exciting and comprehensive new solution for business."

Employee-to-manager ratios have continued to increase, making it difficult to physically supervise personnel. The endless drive for greater efficiency in corporations requires an automated means. Axcess' solution is designed for the 21st century workplace and its numerous situations that mandate automated identification.

Using Axcess' automated ID cards for access control allows employees to start work sooner, giving them more time to be productive. In the case of larger workforces, the savings can amount to as much as a 10% improvement in productivity.

* Less supervision has given rise to employee-based security threats, making Dot's automated security necessary. Dot ensures employees are in the right position all the time.
* Dot automatically protects key physical assets such as laptops containing critical data.
* The card automatically captures contractor time and attendance, reducing over-billing. Case studies have shown a savings of 14% of contractor costs using automated systems.
* By automatically monitoring worker output, service employee workloads have been successfully optimized thereby increasing customer satisfaction.
* Recent safety incidents and terrorist concerns now require an automated means like Dot Credential to account for personnel leaving a building in an emergency.
* Compliance with safety laws is more readily achieved with automated systems, and workplace liability is significantly reduced.

Automated wireless IDs offer the only reliable solution to meet today's WFM needs.

Dot Platform: World's Smallest, Most Powerful, Lowest Cost Battery-Powered Wireless Computer
Dot, based on a revolutionary system-on-a-chip (SOC) technology design, is the world's smallest, most powerful, lowest cost battery-powered wireless computer. Dot's flexibility allows it to take many forms to suit specific needs. Beyond the wireless corporate ID, Dot technology serves as the heart of many new and innovative products from Axcess such as a long range bar code, an electronic property tag, a vehicle identification tag, an electronic cargo container seal, a wireless sensor transmitter and limitless other uses.

Axcess' invention combines a processor, memory and wireless communications into one chip about the size of a single grain of rice. It is as powerful as the first personal digital assistants (PDAs). It runs for years on a watch battery, stores at least three pages of information in memory and communicates to the world at high speed, all at a cost of only a few dollars each.

Dot solutions are based on a micro-wireless system implementation that fits seamlessly into, yet operates separately underneath, the corporate network to operate efficiently and non-disruptively.