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 […]

Mark Allen, marketing manager at Kaba, discusses the advantages of the company’s wireless locks for physical access control. “It’s the ability to give the customer the same functionality you have in an online system without having to run any wires to the door saving time and money and giving the end user the same functionality,” […]

A unique use of a campus card is happening at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, said Wendy R. Welch, vice president of client services at CardSmith. The school has issued campus cards that correspond with each university owned and operated vehicle which can be used for fuel purchases. “As the drivers check out the […]

When representatives from Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies went out to talk to customers about the company’s technology they were taken aback at what they heard, said Steve Down, general manager at Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies. “We thought we knew what the customer wanted but when we started talking to them and found out where the […]

George Jang, product manager at Zebra Technologies, gives viewers a demonstration of the Zebra Series 8 Retransfer card printer. The company is launching a new laminator module for the printer which aims to cut down on waste. “This laminator is very unique to Zebra because we transfer the laminate to both side of the card […]