ACS Joins 10th Anniversary Celebration of HSPD-12

KOWLOON BAY, Hong Kong - Aug. 1, 2014 - PRLog -- Advanced Card Systems Ltd. (ACS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Card Systems Holdings Ltd., SEHK: 8210), Asia Pacific's top supplier and one of the world's top 3 suppliers of PC-linked smart card readers (Source: Frost & Sullivan), will be in Smart Card Alliance Government Conference Special Edition Event: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of HSPD-12. The conference and showcase will be on Jul 31, 2014, at the Marriot Metro Center in Washington DC. ACS will be in Booth 6.

HSPD-12 (Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12) was signed by US President George W. Bush in August 2004 to create a mandatory standard for IDs issued by the US government to its employees and employees of federal contractors. To fulfil the technical requirements of HSPD-12, the US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) developed FIPS 201 (Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 201), which specifies personal identity verification (PIV) standards for personnel covered under HSPD-12.

ACS will be displaying its FIPS 201 and TAA‒compliant products: ACR38U-I1, a PC-linked smart card reader for smart cards conforming to ISO7816; and the ACR38U-ND, an ultra-portable mobile card reader with microUSB interface, for full-sized contact smart cards.

ACS will also be displaying its contactless readers: ACR122, a PC/SC and CCID-compliant NFC reader; ACR1251, a next-generation reader for both NFC tags and NFC devices; ACR1281, a dual interface reader for high-speed, highly demanding applications; and the ACR1252, an NFC Forum-Certified reader that performs the three NFC modes and is guaranteed to be interoperable with other NFC devices.

These readers are suitable not only for e-government, but also for e-banking and e-payment, e-healthcare, transportation, network security, access control, and loyalty applications.

For more information about the HSPD-12 10th anniversary event, click here. Those interested in e-government and security solutions may email info@acs.com.hk.

About ACS

Advanced Card Systems Ltd. (ACS, wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Card Systems Holdings Ltd., SEHK: 8210), founded in 1995, is Asia Pacific's top supplier and one of the world's top 3 suppliers of PC-linked smart card readers, as well as the winner of the Product Quality Leadership Award for Smart Card Readers from Frost & Sullivan. One of the companies on Forbes Asia's 2010 “Best Under a Billion" list, a prestigious list of 200 top-performing companies with sales between US$5 million and US$1 billion, selected from 12,930 publicly listed enterprises in Asia Pacific, ACS develops a wide range of high quality smart card reading/writing devices, smart cards and related products and distributes them to over 100 countries worldwide. Visit ACS at http://www.acs.com.hk/.