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Awards
1999
- ICMA Elan Award for Best Non-Secure Card Design:
Each Vanguard ID System's Family Pak comes with a full-sized membership card and two key tags for additional family members. The McBreak Family Pak was specially designed for a McDonald's restaurant customer benefit program to include both a bar code and a magnetic stripe on the card and a bar code on the two key tags. The card was specially designed so that only the coke bottle is visible when placed in a wallet. The key tags were designed to accommodate a large code 39 bar code so that a child could pass the key tag under a scanner at an information Kiosk inside a McDonald's restaurant. Vanguard ID Systems designed a special form to accommodate the bar codes and magnetic stripes and a special die was designed to accommodate the coke bottle design.
2004
- ICMA Technical Achievement Recognition:
The RFID card solution created by Vanguard incorporates Texas Instruments RFID technology in its patented card and key tag product offering. This solution enables season ticket holders to carry out financial transactions at the point-of-sale for all merchandise offered at the stadium, without the need for cash. By assigning a designated credit card to the RFID card, the club member is able to transact all purchases by waving the card over a reader at the POS speeding up the purchasing process for both the customer and vendor.
2007
- ICMA Elan Finalist in Technical Achievement:
Vanguard ID Systems manufactured this hybrid MagTag® Card for Passport Technologies Inc. Passport Technologies needed a single piece for membership identification that could be easily read using a bar code, magnetic stripe and RFID reader. They also needed to image variable data and/or a picture onto the MagTag using a CR-80 matrix.
- ICMA Elan Finalist – People's Choice
Attendees at the ICMA EXPO selected their favorite card from all of the entries and received in any of the categories.
Patents
For more than 20 years, Vanguard ID Systems has pioneered industry-leading innovations that enhance the quality of its products and processes and, ultimately, resolve customers’ business and application challenges.
2006
- U.S. Patent #6,994,262 — Printed sheet products with integral, removable radio frequency identification elements
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News
04/17/2008
Vanguard Wins Judge's Choice Elan Award from the ICMA
Vanguard ID Systems recently took home a prestigious ICMA Élan Award in the Judges’ Choice category for its design of an RFID key tag for The Woods Coffee. The Judges’ Choice is unique in that allows the Élan judges to recognize their favorite entry from among all the submissions received in every category.
12/22/2007
Vanguard remains a leader in its field
Anyone giving a gift card for Christmas or carrying a supermarket rewards tag on a keychain or a library card in a wallet more than likely have had their hands on a Vanguard ID Systems product.
The privately owned company, founded two decades ago by Richard O. Warther, produces the ubiquitous plastic cards and tags. Customers range from retailers to minor league baseball teams, with the company’s heaviest concentration in library and health clubs.
At 53, Warther describes himself as “an old bar code guy.” In the early days of the technology, Warther worked for grocery store chains and later Graphic Technology and Data Document Systems, both in Kansas City, Kan.
He founded Vanguard ID in 1987 with the help of several financial backers.
“They put up the money, I supplied the knowledge and backbone,” Warther said.
12/04/2007
Vanguard ID Systems surpasses a major milestone - one billion key tags manufactured
Vanguard ID Systems announced today that it has manufactured its one-billionth bar coded key tag. Twenty years after inventing the technology, Vanguard has surpassed this milestone, producing 1,020,118,000 key tags to date. Over that period, the increasingly ubiquitous accessory produced by the West Chester, PA based corporation has taken up residence next to house keys and car keys the world over. In fact, if you laid all of the key tags Vanguard has produced end to end, the resulting strand would produce a bar code that would encircle the earth one and two-thirds times.