Palm City, FL (Oct. 31, 2018) — ELATEC, a world leader in RFID card readers for user authentication and access control solutions, is pleased to announce a partnership with KYOCERA Document Solutions America. Under this partnership, KYOCERA has included ELATEC RFID card readers as a recommended on-ramp to user authentication solutions for its network of KYOCERA and Copystar branded multi-function printer dealers.
RFID-enabled user authentication allows an employee of an organization to release potentially sensitive documents from a print server by presenting a contactless RFID card instead of cumbersome and error-prone manual entry of passwords and personal identification numbers (PINs). Importantly, RFID also provides an additional security layer because passwords and PINs are easily compromised when employees share them with colleagues or watch over someone’s shoulder to steal their information. PINs can also be easily miskeyed, accidentally releasing the material to the wrong person. RFID cards, which are typically assigned as employee ID and door access cards, are less likely to be shared between employees and cannot be easily duplicated or hacked.
ELATEC RFID card readers are designed such that their configuration cannot be extracted once programmed which makes it nearly impossible for propriety keys or configurations to be copied or stolen.
“ELATEC supports over 60 card types simultaneously, essentially providing a single card reader model. The benefit to Kyocera and their dealers is a vast reduction in the variety of card readers they need to retain in their inventory eliminating the requirement for costly safety stock and product obsolescence. This gives us an edge in larger environments, such as hospitals and colleges and is just one of the many great features of ELATEC card readers”, said Rosann LeRose, solutions marketing manager for KYOCERA Document Solutions America, Inc. “This is a real differentiator when combining this and other solutions to our customers and enables KYOCERA to provide a true and total document solution.”
ELATEC RFID card readers are designed to work in the single sign-on space of enterprise content management capture solutions such as KYOCERA’s own DMConnect and other third-party document management solutions and in its own Print Management Solutions such as KYOCERA’s Net Manager and other third-party print management solutions. This new partnership also extends these same benefits to KYOCERA’s Copystar branded multi-function devices.
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About ELATEC
ELATEC specializes in identification solutions. The company is the international leader in the field of multi-frequency/multi-standard readers. Integrators benefit from reader/writer modules that combine contact (Smartcard) and contactless (RFID, NFC, Bluetooth) technologies. Over 60 RFID technologies commonly used internationally in the high-frequency (13.56 MHz) and low-frequency range (125/134.2 kHz) are supported by a single device. ELATEC is the industry-leading partner for companies that want to grow their products’ potential through innovative close-up identification solutions. The company was founded in 1988 and currently has around 90 employees at fourteen locations worldwide. Its global headquarters are in Munich, Germany.
