Position Displacement Sensor

Not Available Training of personnel throughout a large organization is an increasingly complex issue especially when the personnel are distributed over a wide geographic area and with various skill levels. Training, testing, and certifications requirements continue to grow with the complexity and variety of equipment that is operated and maintained by widespread organizations. At the same time there is substantial pressure to reduce the relative cost of training as these same organizations seek to be competitive in a global environment. Widely dispersed training audiences (particularly for WAN-based applications) require various levels of access control to training materials and verification of the identity of the person that is trained, tested, and certified. Smart card technology offers potential solutions to growing problems in the training industry. Smart cards can be used to verify the identity of the individual to be trained through the use of biometrics. The smart card can carry the prior training records and certifications of the individual that can be used to establish access rights and prerequisites for specific courses of instruction. Once training and certification is accomplished, the encryption keys stored on the smart card may be used to establish secure links over the network to enter the appropriate information into centralized databases for training management. With the completed testing and certifications stored on the card, it can be used as an on the spot verification of the holder's credentials when sensitive operation or maintenance functions demand on the spot verification of personnel qualifications.