Saint Joseph’s University has deployed mobile ordering from Transact, providing students with the “Hawk Hill 2 Go” app. The initiative provides a mobile ordering service that gives students the ability to order from any of the stations in the university’s on campus Campion Food Court.

Last year posed a number of unforeseen challenges for universities across the country, as COVID-19 required campuses to pivot and problem solve in new ways. One bit of problem solving at Duke University implemented a COVID symptom monitoring process that deactivated student ID card access with the university’s Transact system if students did not complete daily symptom monitoring and surveillance testing.

The University of Denver is implementing a new identity and access management (IAM) system for student and faculty access to university portals and applications. Denver has chosen BIO-key International’s PortalGuard IAM platform, featuring Identity-Bound Biometrics (IBB) technology.

Vanderbilt University has turned to HID Global and card system vendor CBORD to provision mobile credentials to student Android and iOS devices. HID is providing both reader hardware and Seos credential technology as part of the deployment that is compatible with both Near Field Communication (NFC) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).

In the second of our Chat series with ASSA ABLOY, regional campus manager, Tyler Webb, discusses data analytics using the campus credential and how it can impact student retention and success. Listen in as Webb discusses ways that campuses can leverage access control data – and a host of other data points – to find correlations with student engagement.

In this episode of CR80Chats, we discuss the two primary flavors of mobile credential, Near-Field Communication (NFC) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in an attempt to clear some of the confusion surrounding the two. An increasing number campuses are looking to provision mobile credentials to students and staff, but it can be tricky business choosing the right mobile path, as NFC and BLE can look very different.

Auburn University is now provisioning NFC mobile credentials to students faculty and staff for use on iPhone and Watch, as well as on Android devices. Auburn worked with campus transaction system provider, CBORD, as well as the access and security provider, Allegion, to deliver the mobile credential initiative.

Card transaction system provider, TouchNet, has joined the mobile credential fold as it now provides campuses the ability to provision and use iPhones or Apple Watch to make purchases and complete other actions on campus. The first of the TouchNet campus clients to launch TouchNet’s OneCard Campus ID solution is Northern Arizona University.