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Earlier this month at Cartes 2011, Contactless Intelligence spoke with Dr. Manfred Müeller, Executive Vice President of the Identive Group, Inc. about the groups exciting activities in the NFC arena and shared the news relating to the corporate brand of the Identive Group expanding to cover companies such as SCM Microsytems.

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For more information on NFC technology be sure to visit http://identivenfc.com.

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NFC is just in its infancy, but one of the potential powers behind mobile payments could be readily available many places in a few years.

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Why do we use a wallet in the first place?  It holds our plastic money (credit and debit cards and coupons), our cash, sometimes a few coins, business cards, important phone numbers and our personal ID cards.  Almost all of that can be stored in cyberspace.

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Visit http://identivenfc.com for more information on NFC technology and solutions.

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Identive Announces Innovative New Inlay Manufacturing Technology

SmartCore™ Enables Unprecedented Printability for Contactless ID Cards

SANTA ANA, Calif. and WALLISELLEN, Switzerland – October 17, 2011 -- Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV), a provider of products, services and solutions for the identification, security and RFID industries, today announced an innovative breakthrough in RFID inlay manufacturing technology. The Company’s patent-pending SmartCore technology produces RFID core-inlays enabling unprecedented printability for contactless ID and access cards, with a thinner profile than traditional inlay designs.

An inlay is a thin material substrate incorporating a microchip bonded to an antenna, and functions as the heart of an RFID (radio frequency identification) credential such as a smartag, label, sticker or card. Contactless RFID technology is rapidly replacing traditional machine-readable identification technologies in numerous applications, offering substantially enhanced security and convenience.

Werner Vogt, Managing Director of Identive’s Multicard Switzerland and principal inventor of SmartCore commented, “SmartCore leverages Identive‘s proprietary antenna and inlay designs as well as manufacturing techniques invented by our team and honed over many years. The unparalleled technique of Identive’s SmartCore inlay eliminates the bumps and irregular patterns found in most contactless cards and enables a perfectly even surface with a uniform thickness and appearance that consequently allows improved ability to print and customize electronic ID cards.”

“Identive is well established as an inlay manufacture for smartags, labels and tickets and with this new technology we are now expanding our range into ID cards and badges,” explained Michael Kober, Managing Director of Transponders for Identive. “The special design of our SmartCore inlay offers partners more flexibility, more durability and ultimately a lower cost of implementation for contactless cards for employee ID, facility access and other applications.”

Identive will showcase its new SmartCore technology in November at the ID WORLD International Congress in Milan, Italy and at the annual CARTES & IDentification exhibition in Paris, France. Initial orders for SmartCore inlays already have been booked and delivered and Identive is currently installing new SmartCore production capabilities at its Wallisellen plant that are expected to be fully operational in early 2012.

About Identive Group  Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt: INV) is focused on building the world’s signature company in Secure ID. The company’s products, software, systems and services address the markets for identity management, physical and logical access control, NFC and a host of RFID-enabled applications for customers in the government, enterprise, consumer, education, healthcare and transportation sectors. Identive’s mission is to build a lasting business of scale and technology based on a combination of strong technology-driven organic growth and disciplined acquisitive expansion. For additional info visit: www.identive-group.com.

NOTE: SmartCore is a trademark of Identive Group, Inc.

  Contacts: Darby Dye;  [email protected]; [phone]

Annika Oelsner; [email protected]; [phone]

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