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Would have thought if this relates to previous announcement they'd hit the market with the figures again ... when is the cash hitting the table??


BQT Solutions’ miPASS Smart Cards Get Smarter
With Optimiser’s Real-time Digital Management
Biometrics, Activity Management To Create Highly Secure Access,
Payment Applications
BQT Solutions (ASX Code: BQT) – developer of miPASS contactless smart card solutions – and Optimiser – Digital
Management specialist and creator of a unique Authoritative Metadata Engine for managing digital assets in realtime
– will integrate their respective technologies, under a recently signed Memorandum of Understanding, to
create "live" smart card-based applications and services that can be managed in the field, in real-time.
The combination of fingerprint biometric authentication with up-to-the-minute business activity monitoring will
provide unparalleled management features and security for both users and vendors of smart card-based physical
access systems, Internet payment and banking services, as well as software and eCommerce applications
generally. Optimiser's Digital Management solution also introduces vital billing capabilities to smart card-based
applications giving vendors flexibility for deploying new event-driven sales models, including Pay-As-You-Use
(PAYU).
"We are delighted that BQT and Optimiser have come together to unite the world of physical access security with
the latest in software management techniques," said John Genner, Managing Director of BQT Solutions. "We
believe the union of Optimiser’s Digital Management and BQT’s biometric smart card technologies will provide a
unique and powerful solution to the problems of identity theft, password theft and Internet phishing."
BQT Solutions' smart card solutions are based on Philips Electronics' open, ISO14443A-compliant Mifare
technology, the industry standard for contactless smart card-driven transaction systems. BQT enhances this
technology with biometric and physical security applications to create its miPASS range of access control solutions
for managing the credentials of user communities where protection and validation of an individual's identity, and
their assigned privileges, are paramount. These include electronic banking, cash, payment and toll systems;
identity cards for voting, healthcare, insurance and licensing schemes; military and government projects; building
access and secure facilities management; as well as mobile phones, mobile devices, satellite TV set-top boxes,
personal computers and peripherals.
BQT Solutions Limited
ABN 89 000 029 265
Level 4, 65 Epping Road
North Ryde NSW 2113 Australia
Phone: +61 2 8817 2800
Fax: +61 2 8817 2811