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.

The early signs are positive that a new iris biometric system at the University of Georgia will be a hit on campus once student return to campus this fall. Georgia recently deployed new iris scanners across its campus to facilitate entry to dining halls and the student rec center. The project has replaced the previous hand geometry scanners.

Biometrics is now being used to facilitate a range of physical and logical access, secure ID verification for payments and other utilities, and it’s the technology that millions of people now use to unlock their phone each day. But on campus, biometric technology wasn’t always so pervasive, so we’re taking a look back to 2004 and our “Bolt-on biometrics for the college campus” story that discussed ways campuses could get started with the technology.

The University of Nottingham is set to launch a biometric pilot using fingerprint technology to facilitate student registration and attendance at mandatory lectures and exams.

The University of Georgia will be using iris biometrics to enable student access to dining halls and rec center beginning with the coming fall semester. The implementation of iris biometrics comes as part of an initiative that will replace the current hand geometry readers and card swipe access methods.

A host of female students at China’s Beijing Normal University are now able to access their residence hall by simply showing their face after the university installed facial recognition access readers at the dorm’s perimeter doors.