For universities nationwide, getting students through the dining hall doors and to their daily meals is a constant struggle that requires a delicate balance of student convenience and throughput. Biometric applications have garnered demand in a number of locations across the contemporary college campus, particularly those locations where students don’t want to carry their cards. […]

The Pinellas County School District, seated in Clearwater, Fla., has deployed biometric technology to provide a more reliable and secure method for handling school food service program transactions. The fully integrated solution combines Fujitsu PalmSecure biometric technology with MCS Software’s point-of-sale system to provide enhanced security without student PINs or fingerprints scanners. Unlike other readers, […]

Dates: September 27-29, 2011 Location: Tampa, Florida Venue: Tampa Convention Center URL: URL: http://events.jspargo.com/biometrics11/ or http://www.biometrics.org/ Description: Supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA), the Biometrics Consortium Conference is focused on Biometric Technologies for Defense, Homeland Security, Identity Management, Border Crossing and Electronic Commerce. The Conference […]

Vision Database Systems announced the release of a major update which integrates its ID software under the new Windows 7 platform and Canon Digital SLR series cameras. Vision Database Systems’ RapidID software solution is commonly used in schools nationwide including K-12 where users may scan information from students’ IDs to record information and print passes, […]

Sargent Manufacturing Company, a New Haven, Conn. producer of exit devices, electronic access control locks and cylindrical and mortise locks, has added HID Global’s iCLASS 13.56 MHZ capability to its Harmony Series of access control locking hardware. Optimized to make physical access control more secure, the iCLASS contactless smart card technology provides versatile interoperability and […]

The University of South Florida in Tampa is joining the car-sharing craze. Called WeCar from Enterprise Rent-A-Car, students, faculty or staff who buy a $20 membership will be able to rent for an hour, a day, or even over night one of four gas-electric hybrids placed about campus at rates ranging from $10 to $12 […]

By Andy Williams, Associate Editor Television shows like HBO’s The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street depict Baltimore as a gritty city. While the shows are fiction, crime is a real concern and Johns Hopkins University is testing a system that detects gunshots in an effort to help keep the campus safe. The gunshot […]

Government Technology is reporting that John Hopkins University installed a new security system called SECURES in November 2008. The system has the capability to detect gunshots. Ninety-three sensors, which detect the acoustic signature of a gunshot, were installed on city-owned streetlights and Johns Hopkins off-campus buildings. If a gunshot is detected the information is relayed […]

Dates: June 23 – 25, 2009 Location: Messe Frankfurt, Germany Venue: Congress Center URL: http://www.lope-c.com/ Contact: http://www.lope-c.com/index.php?id=39 Description: At LOPE-C 2009 you will see the latest developments in the dynamic and innovative field of organic and printed electronics, where products are thin, light-weight, flexible and produced at low cost: Organic photovoltaic cells (OPV) Printed memory […]

Freiker Inc., a bike-to-school program based in Boulder, Colo., received a grant from Trek Bicycle Corporation to help fund its Frequent Biker program among area elementary schools. The program was founded to encourage children to ride bikes to and from school by tracking their progress and rewarding them based on the number of times they […]