Campus Cards, College and University Identification and Security
CBORD: Securing buildings, transactions, and the bottom line. www.cbord.com

Wiscard gets new face and features

Thursday, June 12, 2008

The new University of Wisconsin- Madison’s Wiscard has a new look as well as new features simplifying life for students, faculty and staff by enabling them to performing four functions in one card. The new card will serve as a campus photo ID, be used for building access, and work as a debit and meal plan card.

The new card still will use bar code technology to enable cardholders to check out library books and use the magnetic stripe to access buildings as well as pay for meals with the “Campus Cash” debit feature and “Housing food” or “Union meal plans.”

Along with the new card design and features, the cards will no longer be printed by the UW Police Department, instead they will be printed at the University’s new Wiscard Office. The cards are being phased in and current ID cards will continue to operate until their five-year limit expires.

Read the full story here. [end] 

Related Articles
Restrictions needed for Internet-enabled face recognition

The International Biometric and Identification Association released a paper that proposes best practices for use of facial recognition in consumer applications.

While the new consumer and commercial applications of face detection and face recognition technologies – such as social media and digital signage – can be positive and beneficial to consumers, they must be deployed with utmost sensitivity to the privacy of the consumer and general public, according to IBIA and Joseph Atick. Atick is one of the original inventors of face recognition technology and is vice chairman at the IBIA.

read more »
Lumidigm names new CEO

The board of directors for Lumidigm announced the appointment of Mark Shermetaro, a member of the board, to chief executive officer of the company with current CEO and chairman Bob Harbour moving to the position of executive chairman of the board of directors.

read more »
Face recognition technology could mean automated personalization for Apple devices

In a new patent application by Apple, the company appears to be looking to incorporate user face recognition via front-facing cameras on its devices, according to an Apple Insider article.

read more »
Gartner's 2012 Magic Quadrant features Equifax user authentication

Gartner Group’s 2012 Magic Quadrant for unique and innovative user authentication products features Equifax’s multifactor authentication product Anakam TFA Two Factor Authentication.

Gartner predicts that by 2017 more than 50% of enterprises will use cloud-based authentication services like Anakam, up from 10% today.

read more »
Viv.ie announce planned summer release for high security face recognition solution

Viv.ie, a start-up located in Ireland working on face recognition technology, announced it is finishing a new type of facial recognition technology that does away with a number of the security pitfalls current facial recognition technology is commonly guilty of, according to a Sydney Morning Herald article.

read more »
New Android app determines age via face recognition

A new app for mobile phones running on the Android operating system has been developed by AppTech that purports to be capable of recognizing a person’s age via the built-in camera on the phones.

read more »

Copyright © 2012, AVISIAN, Inc. All rights reserved.