Mining houses have seen the benefits of deploying end-to-end security solutions that begin at the physical perimeter barrier and run through various technologies to the surveillance systems and video analytics. All this technology is well and good, but do you actually know that the person who enters your premises is actually the person they claim to be?

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Also known as Portable Data File 417, the 2D barcode, is in fact a multi-row, variable-length ‘stacked’ symbology developed in 1992 by Symbol Technologies.

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Security should be considered from the onset of any development project. There are several crucial steps that project developers and project managers can take before development begins that can significantly improve the entire development cycle and avoid potential security pitfalls that would otherwise arise.

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A 2D barcode (like the one on the back of your driver’s licence) is very different to the normal 1D barcode. Find out more here about the advantages of the 2D barcode .

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The lightweight Honeywell 3330s, available from EXID, is a compact area-imaging scanner that provides scanning of all 1D, PDP and 2D barcodes, even on highly reflective surfaces.

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How many of you accept the authenticity of your newly-employed truck driver’s capabilities and legality to drive a heavy-duty vehicle at face value?

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About R20 million is being spent annually to fight the deadly corruption around illegal driver’s licences. The police’s Special Investigating Unit (SIU) was involved in the cancellation of more than 6 000 illegal licences, with the arrest of a number of corrupt officials, and several fly-by-night driving instructors.

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The machine readable component (barcode) of the South African driver’s licence (SADL) contains the visible information displayed on the card, with the exception of the fingerprint image and the driver’s signature image.

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The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) estimates that about 32 000 public driver’s permits have been issued through “suspicious and irregular means” in South Africa.

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