On Bike Share, Bristol, R.I., is scheduled to roll out this spring a campus bike share system designed to make bicycling a part of college campus transportation. The system provides colleges and universities with the ability to automate existing bike fleets and makes implementation, maintenance, and tracking fast and easy through a series of solutions […]

Quinnipiac University, a Hamden, Conn. school best known for its politically focused Polling Institute, recently upgraded the campus card used by its 5,800 students. The Qcard had relied solely on magnetic stripe technology for 24-years before entering the contactless generation. While the contactless rollout has been successful, like any new campus system it has faced […]

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies and the CBORD Group are in the midst of an access control trial at Villanova University in Pennsylvania involving NFC and smart phones. Since November 2011, Villanova’s students and staff have been using the aptiQmobile Web-based service from Ingersoll Rand along with smart phones as their credential to access dormitories, academic […]

Secure identity provider HID Global has expanded its card printer and encoder line with the launch of the Fargo DTC1000M Monochrome Printer/Encoder that provides organizations with a printer that’s cost-effective to own and operate. Dan DeFore, HID’s director of product marketing, said that this entry-level printer can meet a customer’s card issuance needs with a […]

Fingerprint scanners and healthier menus are some of the renovations for schools in the Tallmadge, Ohio City School District. The finger scanners alone speed up the lunch lines as students no longer have to juggle cash when paying for their lunch. The scanners identify students and faculty, but the fingerprints aren’t collected. The scanners also […]

CardSmith and ColorID have partnered to bring CardSmith’s cloud-based campus card solutions to ColorID’s customers in higher education and other market segments. ColorID will now be able to offer CardSmith’s transaction management and related campus card solutions as part of its card products portfolio. The companies will have special pricing for ColorID customers with a […]

Thinking of changing your mag stripe campus ID card to contactless? Campus card provider CBORD may be able to help. The company is offering a free webinar March 27 that will enable participants to learn the latest about contactless credentials for colleges and universities. The webinar will review the variety of contactless options available and […]

BadgePass and Digital Identification Solutions have integrated BadgePass’s Identity Manager credentialing software with Digital’s EDIsecure XID 8300 Retransfer Printer for single step smart card encoding and card issuance. Identity Manager is part of the BadgePass suite of security solutions that also includes Visitor Manager, Access Control and SmartReg. In Identity Manager, one can enroll user […]

Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Ill., is piloting a program that can track students on school buses. The goal is to increase safety while determining more efficient bus routes. The school rolled out the program in late January that provides each student with a card that the student uses as he enters or exits a school […]

The Huntsville, Ala. school district is conducting a pilot program that will track when and where students get on and off the bus. Currently, three schools–an elementary, middle and high school–are involved in the pilot. The program, which kicks off next month, involves the 300 students tapping their ID card against a reader installed in […]