NuVision Networks has been working with colleges and universities on a number of new applications for campus cards which add benefits to students and schools, says Brian Adoff, national sales manager at the company. Integrating a schools’ ERP into the campus card system can make it easier to give or deny physical access to students […]

Blackboard’s new contactless cards deployed at Santa Clara University helped the university meet several needs, according to Jeff Staples, vice president of market development and strategy at the campus card provider. The university wanted to increase awareness of specials in their dining program so the school put up digital signage at the card office advertising […]

BadgePass enables a school to integrate its different access control databases into one, says Lindsay Cornell, dealer manager at the ID Group Inc., which sells BadgePass. The visitor management application lets an organization read a driver license, credit card or other type of government-issued identification so a school can know who is in a particular […]

The lower cost of contactless smart cards is making the technology more competitive with legacy proximity cards, says Jennifer Toscano, marketing manager at Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies. Smart cards offer more security than prox and enable end users to add applications beyond access control, Toscano says. Schlage, a division of Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, is […]

Biometrics are being used more frequently on campus for access to high-security areas, says David Stallsmith, director of product marketing at ColorID. Data centers, animal labs and for securing nuclear material used in medical facilities are the areas where two-factor authentication, a card and biometric, are being used. Stallsmith also says that the “ick” factor […]

Duke University launched a mobile application for iPhones that enables students to find out news around campus, the closest dining hall and hours of operations. The university also wanted to add some campus card functionality to the app as well, says Matthew Drummond, director at the DukeCard Office. “We wanted to provide a campus card […]

Bret Tobey, product manager for Intelligent Openings Business Development at ASSA ABLOY Americas, talks about a new set of locks he calls “near online.” These locks are similar to off-line locks of the past except they include some network components that remove some of the manual tasks associated with some older off-line locks. “Now we […]

The University of Alberta wanted a way to make sure students who needed the H1N1 vaccines were receiving them. Fred Emery, vice president and general manager at Heartland Campus Solutions, talks about how the university used its OneCardVerify system to make sure the authorized students received the medication. “They utilized OneCardVerify to keep track of […]

The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. has deployed an application to make sure only students ride the school’s bus system between its campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis, says Read Winkelman, vice president of sales at CBORD. The buses are equipped with wireless access control readers that connect to access control panels […]

Gregory Baker, chief technology officer at Off Campus Solutions, talks about the company’s technology and how it’s different from other off campus programs at the 17th Annual NACCU Conference. “The OCS offering is a little different, on the technology side especially, because of how we manage transactions,” Baker says. “We take terminal, put them into […]