Campus Cards, College and University Identification and Security

University enables IDs for bus rides

Wednesday, July 7, 2010
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The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. has deployed an application to make sure only students ride the school’s bus system between its campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis, says Read Winkelman, vice president of sales at CBORD.

The buses are equipped with wireless access control readers that connect to access control panels around campus which verify students in real time.

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