A high school in Hangzhou City on the eastern coast of China is using facial recognition technology to monitor student attentiveness while in the classroom. Hangzhou Number 11 High School has installed three cameras at the front of the classroom to scan student faces every 30 seconds to analyze facial expressions and detect student moods.

Biometric identification solutions provider, FST Biometrics, has installed its In Motion Identification (IMID) system at England’s Wellington College to provide secure access and an enhanced customer experience for students and members of the Wellington Health & Fitness Club.

Michigan State was recently tasked with updating antiquated access systems at a sensitive computer engineering lab, and decided to go in a new direction by implementing a multi-modal biometric access control solution from ZKAccess.

The Communications University of China is using facial recognition technology as a means to log attendance in select classrooms. Some 300 students in six courses at the university located in the eastern city of Nanjing now stand in front of an interactive tablet screen when they walk in the door for lectures to log their attendance.

Biometrics is now being used to facilitate a range of physical and logical access, secure ID verification for payments and other utilities, and it’s the technology that millions of people now use to unlock their phone each day. But on campus, biometric technology wasn’t always so pervasive, so we’re taking a look back to 2004 and our “Bolt-on biometrics for the college campus” story that discussed ways campuses could get started with the technology.

A host of female students at China’s Beijing Normal University are now able to access their residence hall by simply showing their face after the university installed facial recognition access readers at the dorm’s perimeter doors.

A camera at St. Mary’s Catholic High School in St. Louis conducts facial recognition for every person that passes through the front and back entrance. The school is located in a high-crime area on the city’s south side, and school administrators were in need of an extra layer of security to complement the regular video monitoring system. The answer was facial recognition.

The selfie may have found a new purpose at Humber College, following a partnership with Lucova, Compass Group Canada, ITC Systems and Volante Systems. The result is the recently launched mobile app, ETUP, which enables students to verify payments with a selfie.

As more and more college courses go online in lieu of the traditional classroom setting, the need to properly and effectively verify students’ identity online has become a vital concern. It seems that biometrics may provide a solution to vetting student identities online.

Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia has chosen Argus Global’s iTrak incident reporting and risk management solution. The iTrak installation at Macquarie marks the first post-secondary school in Australia to use the system, but the solution is already being used at several universities in the United States. Argus and partner iView Systems been working hard to […]