Every campus needs a clear plan when it comes to its identity environment, and the most successful and dynamic institutions don’t just focus on the day-to-day; they also plan for the future. Planning for the future of your identity environment is vital to staying in line with industry trends, and avoiding the pitfalls of leaning on outdated hardware or technology. That’s where ColorID’s Campus Identity Roadmap comes in.

The Communications University of China is using facial recognition technology as a means to log attendance in select classrooms. Some 300 students in six courses at the university located in the eastern city of Nanjing now stand in front of an interactive tablet screen when they walk in the door for lectures to log their attendance.

At participating elementary schools across Singapore, students will soon be able to make purchases with the touch of a finger thanks to a new biometric program from POSB Bank. The addition of biometrics will be a new feature added to the existing Smart Buddy program that enables students in the region to make purchases via smart wrist watches at participating POS terminals.

A convenience store on the campus of London’s Brunel University is now the the first retailer in the country to leverage finger vein biometrics for payments, after a new initiative has been launched to enable students to make purchases with the touch of a finger.

There could soon be another online ID vetting option for distance learning and exams from biometric software solutions provider, Biometric Signature ID. The company’s flagship product, Bio-Sig ID is designed to be a secure password and authentication tool that leverages a user’s unique pen strokes to create a biometric ID with their fingertip, stylus or mouse.

Biometric technology company, Zwipe, has partnered with London’s Rose Bruford College to overhaul the campus’ physical security needs by introducing a combination of biometric and contactless access control. The solution is a fingerprint activated contactless credential that works with both 125kHz and 13.56MHz infrastructures already in place on a campus.

Excelsior Springs High School just outside of Kansas City is now using fingerprint readers to help support a new education format that lets students plot their own daily schedules.