At participating elementary schools across Singapore, students will soon be able to make purchases with the touch of a finger thanks to a new biometric program from POSB Bank. The addition of biometrics will be a new feature added to the existing Smart Buddy program that enables students in the region to make purchases via smart wrist watches at participating POS terminals.

A convenience store on the campus of London’s Brunel University is now the the first retailer in the country to leverage finger vein biometrics for payments, after a new initiative has been launched to enable students to make purchases with the touch of a finger.

California’s Vista Unified School District has expanded the use of a biometrics system that sees students scan their fingerprints to purchase food at the cafeteria lunch line. The biometrics program has reportedly led to expedited lines and introduced new layers of security for students’ accounts from theft or accidental misuse.

Iowa’s Wartburg College spent the month of November trialling biometric access at its dining facility, with a view to test the systems efficiency and potentially implement the system in the near future.

Beginning with the new school year, students in the Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95 can check out lunch items with their fingerprints rather than their ID cards. Lake Zurich landed on Geneva, Ill.-based biometric startup, PushCoin to provide the solution. A cloud-based, centralized payment system, PushCoin enables a school web store capability, parent portal, administrative site and a point-of-sale app.

The use of biometrics on campus is nothing new. Back in the 90s campuses were using hand geometry readers for access for residence halls. But use of the technology is increasing as a way to ease access to dining halls as well as access to dorms and other areas.

An Omaha, Nebraska school district is now using fingerprints to log student purchases in cafeterias. The new biometric system went live this week and is being used in lunch lines at both the district’s high school and middle school. After the district’s existing lunch program and software was discontinued, a new solution was needed. In […]

North Adams Public School officials have decided to implement a new biometric identification system in school cafeterias that they claim will save time and money. North Adams Public Schools, located in Massachusetts, are implementing the new system this year in conjunction with the biometrics company identiMetrics, to the lunch line this school year. According to […]

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has officially signed the biometric ban proposed in Florida that will prohibit schools from collecting the palm scans, iris scans or fingerprints of its students. Senator Dorothy L. Hukill (R – Port Orange) proposed Senate Bill 188, Education Data Privacy, which bans the collection of any and all biometric data in […]

Sweden’s Lund University has launched a vein biometric payment solution for stores and coffee shops around campus. As reported by TechCrunch, the solution is being developed by Fredrik Leifland, an engineering student at Lund University. Inspiration struck Leifland as he was impatiently waiting in line at the supermarket, which made him wonder if he could […]