Beginning with the upcoming 2014-15 school year, New Caney Independent School District will be implementing a new electronic tracking system that monitor students’ attendance on buses, ensuring that they ride the correct bus and exit at the right stops. The district is rolling out Secured Mobility’s SMART Tag, an electronic system that uses tablet computers […]

CBORD announced the addition of Tony Lista to its management team. Lista will join as general manager of CBORD’s student discount program, Student Advantage. Based in Boston, Student Advantage works with colleges, universities and campus organizations, and thousands of discount locations nationwide to develop products and services enabling students to make purchases cheaper around campus, […]

Two schools in the Northside Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas will pilot a program that places a an RFID chip into student IDs. This will enable teachers and school administrators to pinpoint a student’s location while at school. It will cost the district about $10 to $15 a student for the RFID chip or […]

Identive Group will be showcasing its near field communication solutions for students and campuses during the National Association of Campus Card Users Annual Conference in Seattle, Wash. “Mobile phones are a communications lifeline for college students, and the right NFC solutions can greatly extend the phones’ usefulness on a university campus,” said David Holmes, Identive’s […]

ScholarChip, a provider of smart ID solutions for schools, has announced the release of its new School Safety and Operations (SSOS) platform for NFC-enabled mobile phones. The SSOS platform includes Android applications for taking attendance in classrooms and on school buses, monitoring hall traffic, paying for public transportation, making mobile payments and ticketing for extracurricular […]

Gauge Mobile has teamed up with Newad to launch a series of NFC-enabled advertising displays on college campuses across Canada. Based on Gauge’s Scanvee platform, the solution enables users to simply tap their NFC-enabled smart phone on a Newad display to instantly receive discount coupons, enter contests, provide feedback or purchase products. According to Gauge, […]

The top stories from the campus card market in 2009 included a controversial patent on web revalue, a series of pieces on campus card banking programs, and a nationwide assortment of innovative card programs from Boston to Montana. The CR80News editorial team and the rest of the AVISIAN Publishing staff are working hard to bring […]

By Robert C. Huber, Campus Card Industry Business Consultant Prediction #1–Contactless Becomes Preferred Campus Card Technology After magnetic stripes have dominated campus card systems for 40 years, contactless smart chip technology–high frequency 13.56 MHz–rapidly ascends as the preferred identity and reader technology due to its high-data security, read/write storage capability, non-mechanical reader design, expansion scalability, […]

Digital Identification Solutions announced the integration of the ThingMagic USB RFID reader/encoder with the EDIsecure XID Retransfer Printer. By attaching the Gen2 UHF USB encoder to the side of the XID printer, ID badges are printed and encoded in one step. The capabilities of the ThingMagic USB reader include tag reads at ranges up to […]

While usage is light, hand scanners are starting to make their presence felt on some college campuses By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications Biometrics aren’t exactly taking the college world by storm but it is gaining traction in some areas. While the technology can be expensive, some schools are finding uses that both aid […]