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ISBC Group is a Russian manufacturer of smart cards, a technology provider, a developer of tools in the field of information security, physical access control, the Internet of Things, as well as a domestic distributor of equipment for building information security systems based on smart cards and RFID technologies. ISBC Group provides comprehensive services for the production, graphic and electronic personalization of smart cards.

ISBC produces transport cards at its own plant in Zelenograd for 43 regions of Russia, including Troika, Strelka, Podorozhnik, ETK. Products include AIRTAG key fobs and contactless identification bracelets used in schools, offices, community events, clubs and swimming pools.

History

2023: Agreement with Mospolitech to share knowledge and expertise

ISBC Group of Companies and Moscow Polytechnic University signed a partnership agreement. The main purpose of the agreement is to strengthen interaction in such areas as the exchange of knowledge and expertise, the training of highly qualified specialists, the expansion of professional education and scientific research. ISBC announced this on September 21, 2023. Read more here.

2021: Exit from the Criminal Code of AT Bureau LLC and transfer of the ESMART brand

In March 2021, Intelligent Business Management Systems LLC (ISBC Group) resigned from the founders of AT Bureau LLC (operates under the ESMART brand).

In March 2021, the ESMART brand was also fully transferred by ISBC Group to AT Bureau LLC.

2019: Sale of AirTag brand rights to Apple

The Russian group of companies ISBC, registered in Zelenograd, sold Apple its AirTag brand, under which the American company intends to produce devices for tracking items. This became known at the end of October 2019.

According to RBC, gadgets with RFID tags were produced under the AirTag brand. For example, key fobs that were used to access offices and events. Also, this gadget can be used as a means of payment by recording bank card information on it.

Apple bought the brand from a Zelenograd company to produce devices for tracking items

ISBC did not disclose details of the Apple deal. A company representative told the publication that it will now release RFID chips under the general ISBC brand.

The terms of confidentiality do not allow us to disclose the details of the transaction, but we are confident that the future of the AirTag trademark we invented and registered in the international arena will be bright and soon the whole world will find out and love a new product under this name, ISBC said in a press release.

The AirTag brand is registered both in and  Russia abroad . The change of brand owner took place in October 2019. It is now owned  USA by the Delaware-based GPS company Avion LLC. It is noted that this company was created by Corporation Trust Company, through which Apple previously conducted cases related to intellectual property.

In the summer of 2019, MacRumors announced Apple's plans to release an accessory to track the location of small items under the AirTag brand name. Later, the 9to5mac portal found a mention of AirTag in update operating system iOS 13.2 code. It was about pairing a new device with a smartphone and replacing the battery in it. It was noted that the gadget will be an RFID label that can be attached to any object in order to track it through the Locator application^[1]

2018: ISBC gets right to develop internet of animals in Russia

Logo in 2019

The ISBC group of companies became the first independent organization in Russia to be granted the official right to identify animals by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor). This was reported to TAdviser on December 19, 2018 by ISBC representatives. According to them, as part of pilot projects, ISBC plans to create electronic animal identification and accounting systems that provide radio frequency (RFID) identification for veterinary, zootechnical and breeding purposes.

To this end, the first cooperation agreement in Russia was concluded between ISBC and Rosselkhoznadzor, the company said. Under its terms, within the framework of the project, ISBC provides individual or group identification, accounting and labeling of productive animals belonging to agricultural organizations of all forms of ownership. At the same time, the company provides tagging tools with unique identification numbers assigned and is responsible for entering information about animals into the automated information system.

In addition to the direct implementation of identification projects, ISBC received the right to consult on the identification and accounting of animals, as well as to prepare proposals for the project "Veterinary Rules for the Implementation of Identification and Accounting of Animals" to optimize the procedure for these processes.

According to representatives of the Rosselkhoznadzor and ISBC, the introduction of radio frequency identification will become the basis for the development and growth of Russian animal husbandry.

Improving the efficiency of animal husbandry is impossible without modern digital technologies. Accurate accounting and control of all parameters requires the integration of information systems with real objects, it is necessary to accurately identify each animal. This is the foundation for the entire industry. Solutions for RFID identification from ISBC turn the farm into a modern automated complex with high efficiency, which allows you to increase the quality characteristics of animals, "said Alexey Antonov, Director of the Department of Electronic Animal Identification ISBC.

2015: "NIIME and Micron" and ISBC become technology partners

The ISBC group of companies and NIIME and Micron OJSC, which is part of the industry holding RTI Group OJSC (AFK Sistema), entered into an agreement on strategic technological partnership in the creation and implementation of joint developments on the basis of the Russian microcontroller MIK51SC72D in the spring of 2015.

In accordance with the signed agreement, ISBC receives the exclusive right to use the microcontroller as a means of delimiting access, calculating and storing an electronic signature, an authentication means (including biometric) in the smart card form factor, or a USB token.

The MIK51SC72D chip, manufactured on Micron according to the 180 nm topology, implements cryptographic algorithms for checking the electronic signature of GOST R34.10-2001 and R34.10-2012 at the hardware level. It supports fingerprint biometric authentication, has a built-in Java machine and the ability to use a smart card as both a payment and e-wallet (EMV certified).

Microcontroller MIK51SC72D is the first chip for generating, verifying and storing an electronic signature, the development and production of which was carried out by a Russian company in Russia, which, according to ISBC, guarantees the absence of any deliberately introduced malicious "bookmarks" on the chip. Previously, hardware implementation of cryptographic algorithms was used only in foreign-made microcircuits.

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