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Campuses to have iCLASS contactless option for the multi-application card program from SmartCentric

Friday, June 15, 2007


A time tested business adage suggests that one key to success is to give customers a choice. That is one of the driving principles behind Ireland-based SmartCentric’s latest move, adding support for the iCLASS contactless smart card to its campus card system through one of the best known contactless solutions providers, HID Global.

SmartCentric recently announced the addition of iCLASS to SmartCentric’s SmartCity platform with expected availability later this year.

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Peter Boriskin, Director of Product Management, Electronic Access Control, ASSA ABLOY Americas

Today’s college campuses are the perfect environments for emerging credential technologies. With student populations that tend to be very tech savvy, they are often eager to be first to use the latest and greatest innovations.

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Robert Lemley, director of Software Development with CBORD, details the latest contactless credentials and discusses the pros and cons of selecting a solution.

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Five years won’t see much change

Brian Adoff, Executive Vice President, NuVision Networks

My revolutionary opinion is that in the next five years the campus ID will look… drumroll please… the same as it did for the past five years.

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NXP announced with ALIOTH, a Russian government and payment cards solutions provider, the launch of a multi-application contactless smart card solution product called SCOne based on NXP’s SmartMX2 microcontroller with banking, transport ticketing and eGovernment functionality.

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