With the help of wireless access control readers from Schlage and the campus card solution from Blackboard, students at Georgia Tech no longer need a physical ticket to get into home football games. At the school’s Bobby Dodd Stadium, turnstyles were outfitted with card readers to enable card swipe and subsequent eligibility verification to grant or deny entry. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/cr80news-4.gif)
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HID Global has announced the successful completion of the world’s first university pilot of NFC smart phones carrying digital keys. First announced in September, the pilot involved a select group of students and staff at Arizona State University using NFC-enabled smart phones equipped with HID’s Secure Identity Object (SIO) Technology. Participants could gain access to their residence halls and other secure access areas by tapping their handset against a reader embedded in the door and entering a PIN, rather than use their plastic campus card. read more »The OneCard from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, can now be used at three off-campus restaurants with more merchants set to join. “It’s a project we’ve been working on for some time now and its finally coming to fruition,” said OneCard Coordinator Chris Bird. read more »Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Treehouse Labs announced that it will soon be testing a RFID prototype that enables a sensing system inside of football helmets to alert coaches and medical staff when a player experiences an impact great enough to cause a concussion. read more »NCR Corporation is working together with the Tampa Bay Lightning to help drive ticket sales and loyalty at games. NCR integrated its radio frequency (RF) technology with the Quest Venue Management software solution and Lightning fan’s jerseys. The installation consisted of 10,000 RFID tags, embedded into exclusive season ticket holder jerseys and approximately 250 readers into the Quest terminals throughout the arena. read more »Just as the University of Georgia police were ending an investigation into a sophisticated fake ID ring, another student dealing in fake driver licenses came to light. The original ring, apparently run by students at the University of Georgia and Gainesville State College, had distributed more than 1,000 fake IDs to students at the two schools. read more »Heartland Payment Systems Campus Solutions division has recruited 12 higher education districts and campuses totaling 20 different colleges to manage the schools’ financial aid disbursement services utilizing Heartland’s Acceluraid electronic disbursement product. read more » |
