Campus Cards, College and University Identification and Security

Smart Centric and QI team to bring wireless and contactless to campus cards

Monday, July 10, 2006


Ireland-based smart card solutions provider SmartCentric Technologies has chosen the partnership route to add more functions to the services it offers clients. Its recent agreement with Texas-based QI Systems is intended to provide SmartCentric’s university and corporate campuses with new unattended card readers capable of handling both contact and contactless smart cards.

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