Blackinton’s innovative SmartShield Badge Security System uses advanced Eid (enforcement identification) software technology to create a robust, complete RFID badge security solution for law enforcement. Each SmartShield badge looks like a traditional badge, but it wirelessly provides badge validation, personnel verification, issuance and inventory tracking, and access control. When activated by an Eid software-enabled RFID (radio frequency identification) reader, the SmartShield encoded chip hidden on the back of a badge transmits SmartShield “authorized” encoding to the reader and database. The information is available to authorized users only within their database.