sQuid is launching a smart card and biometric solution that will allow students to make cashless purchases at school. With the new system, parents can load money onto their children’s smart cards or biometric devices via a secure Web portal. Students can then use them to buy school lunches, print and make photocopies, or even […]

The Hull Trinity House School in Yorkshire, UK has become the first Hull school in its area to utilize a biometric system in replacement of school lunch payment programs, according to a Yorkshire Post article. As has been common at other schools where such a system has been implemented, the new system is raising concerns […]

The school board in Pittsburgh, Pa. has issued an order that gives their middle and high school students a couple weeks to sign-up for the school lunch program that sees them using biometric data as a form of payment rather than refillable debit cards or passwords connected to lunch accounts, according to a Post Gazette […]

Alasdair Darroch, director for biometrics developer Biostore, spoke at the Biometrics 2009 Conference in London revealing that the education sector may be leading the charge on utilization of biometrics with approximately 10% of schools utilizing the technology in some way, according to an Info Security article. Among the areas in schools where biometrics are being […]

Students at Juan Diego High School, Draper, Utah, can pay for their lunch by placing a finger on a scanner, and parents can also see what their children are having for the mid-day meal as well. The biometric payment system is from Altoona, Pa.-based FSS Inc. To begin, parents went online and entered payment information […]

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) has just successfully completed the deployment of their new “Shark Card” campus wide smart card program. The NSU Shark card program, provided by SmartCentric in conjunction with Siemens Communications Inc, combines the latest in leading edge smart card technology using both contact and contactless chip technologies and allows for fast and […]

Identification, NFC, contactless and Japan will all be major focal points during the 22nd edition of CARTES, coming your way Nov. 15-17 in Paris at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre near Roissy Charles de Gaulle international airport. One of the major changes this year, according to CARTES Communication Director Hélène Tsounguy, is the coming of […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor A time tested business adage suggests that one key to success is to give customers a choice. That is one of the driving principles behind Ireland-based SmartCentric’s latest move, adding support for the iCLASS contactless smart card to its campus card system through one of the best known contactless solutions […]

Support for the iCLASS® contactless technology from HID is expected to be available (Q2 2007) in the SmartCity® smart card offering from SmartCentric Technologies. According to SmartCentric, this will include cashless purchases at POS, vending machines, laundry, printers, and dining as well as both logical access and physical access. The SmartCity platform is used by […]

SmartCentric has been selected to develop the next generation of Bill Pay and Phone Top up (Etopup) applications for the Irish Postal Service’s retail network PostPoint. PostPoint allows customers to pay their utility bills at their retail outlets and also top up mobile phones. SmartCentric to provide An Post (The Irish Postal Service) with next […]