When Blackboard deploys Sony’s FeliCa contactless smart cards, the credentials have two areas, one that is a secure area where payment and physical access control transactions take place and an open area where the school can add its own applications, says Jun Shionozaki, technical consulting manager, FeliCa Business Division at Sony. At the National Association […]

Campuses wanting to be greener may want to give USFI a look. The company offers biodegradable and recycled card stock for IDs. A typical PVC card will take between 200 and 300 years to breakdown in a landfill, where as USFI’s biodegradable cards will turn to dust anywhere from nine months to five years, says […]

Print management on campus can be a difficult task to conquer but WEPA–Wireless Everywhere, Print Anywhere–has a different take on the problem. Campuses that deploy WEPA enable students to print from the cloud, print from a USB drive or print directly using wireless from a laptop, says Frank Griffith, CEO at the company. WEPA also […]

Schlage’s Aptiq line of smart cards and readers is built on an open standard that enables organization’s to build their own application for the cards, says Rajesh Venkat, vice president of marketing at Ingersoll Rand. The company is looking to work with application developers to create different programs for the credentials. The company is positioning […]

Jolly Technologies was giving demonstrations of its ID Flow system at the National Association of Campus Card Users Annual Conference. ID Flow is a visitor management system that enables a school to scan a driver license, capture a photo and fingerprint biometric, check that data against a watch list and then issues a credential, says […]

Ticketing applications for college sporting events aren’t anything new for campus card programs, but adding functionality that enables a student to search for specific seats at venues is different, says Fred Emery, vice president and general manager at Heartland Campus Solutions. Heartland has created an application called One Card Box Office that has the look […]

Villanova University set up a lottery system to help manage demand for its popular men’s basketball games. There is a point system where the student earned points for attending basketball games, says Read Winkelman, vice president of sales at CBORD. Each game attended earns the student points and the greater chance that they will receive […]

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 […]