In the last years the market of access control applications has increased unusually, thanks to innovative technologies, as biometry and Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID), predominantly realized with contactless (proximity) smartcards. But the use of the RFID technology entered in other fields, as the identification and the trace of goods, thanks to tests made by large organizations like Wall Mart and the Defence Department in USA or Metro in Europe, not using proximity cards but with smart labels.

Thanks to this powerful pushes, investments in RFID market, according to the analyst’s forecast, will pass from the today 90 millions $ to 1.300 in 2008.

Partner Data, as more that 10 years ago has contributed to enlarge the smartcard use, at that time reserved to a small number of large accounts (banks, telephony), offering easy to use development tools and applications, today offers to his customers his know-how and selected products ready to ship: readers, tags, smartlabels, proximity cards, applications, development kits, but, over all, his availability to address users towards the most suitable solutions.