A study conducted by researchers at Michigan State University, along with vending and payment solutions provider USA Technologies, has found significant performance boosts in cashless-enabled vending machines as compared to units only accepting cash and coin. The report highlights the common practice of outfitting only high-volume machines with cashless technology, but the study’s findings suggest that low-performing vending machines can provide significant revenue growth once equipped with cashless hardware.

In 2017, the University of Georgia made the advancement of card technology a priority on campus. After long leaning on a combination of mag stripe and prox card technologies, the need to update and upgrade was more than evident. So UGA’s OneCard Oversight Committee examined its card environment from within, and focused its decision making on a desire to own the entire card system process — encryption keys and all.

Pennsylvania’s Easton Area School District is set to expand its ScholarChip smart-card entry system to include campus visitors. The visitor management element joins area high school students who have been using the smart cards since the beginning of the school year.

Stanford University is replacing all student and faculty ID cards issued before January 2017 as part of a campus wide upgrade that will see new, smart card credentials issued to the campus community.

The latest installment in NACCU’s Talking Campus ID Tech series delves into the important decision of migrating to contactless card technology. Hear from Todd Brooks, Director of Product Management at ColorID, as he discusses the key decisions that campus administrators need to consider to successfully navigate the move to a more advanced student credential.

The University of Georgia has begun the process of moving from legacy, proximity student ID cards to new contactless smart cards. The move to contactless smart cards will give UGA the ability to improve security for students, faculty, and staff, provide greater flexibility and convenience to cardholders, and lay a stronger foundation to build in future card services and functionality.

In the second of a three-part video series detailing hardware and software solutions from card system vendor, Blackboard, hear from the company’s Senior Director for Platform Strategy and Product Management, Kent Pawlak as he talks about the company’s retail offerings.