Three companies have inked an agreement to team up to produce student ID smartcards for Korean mid level and high schools and colleges that will include biometrics. Called the Student Management Card Project, the cooperative venture of e-Smart, Samsung, and Kobile is expected to generate $617 million in revenue in the project’s first six years […]

By Kristine Blackburn and Patrick McGuane, Allsafe Technologies At card manufacturing leader, Allsafe, we believe that the key to success is flexibility. By this, we mean both ‘flexibility’ in terms of what we offer customers and in turn, ‘flexibility’ providing the watchword of how we tool our organization to meet changing customer demands as unlimited […]

By Philippe Held, Sokymat SA The laundry industry is constantly progressing in the automation of its processes. Contactless and RFID technologies are enabling it to achieve the next level of automation, leading to the creation of the “intelligent laundry cycle.” The technology offers significant advantages with regards to other identification techniques adopted by the laundry […]

Arizona State University was looking for a “state-of-the-art” door access control system. Saddled with existing proximity and magnetic stripe cards, the university knew neither could handle more sophisticated security features such as biometrics. That was one of the reasons that led this large university to go with a contactless smart card produced by Irvine, California-based […]

Someday, in the not-too-distant future, a rider could use one smart card to travel across some 26 mass transit systems in northern California. The system, TransLink, billed as the first dual interface system (utilizing both contact and contactless interfaces to the same chip) in the U.S., is in the testing phases now. When fully implemented […]

Both the campus and the banking partner invest a great deal – in time and money – to prepare a financial services offering for cardholders. Contracts are negotiated, services planned, marketing developed, and logistics laid out. A key component of this planning is the account establishment process. How will those students that elect to use […]

Penn College took their CBORD Odyssey PCS™ one-card system off campus at the request of their students, in hopes of increasing revenue and giving students more options. Known as the WildCat Plus Plan, students and employees have the ability to put funds into an account that may be used at various locations around town. Current […]

By Lyn White, Campus Card and Marketing Consultant, White Consulting So your campus card program is now a couple of years old and you have forgotten the trauma of installation and are being pushed to expand onward and upward. Where do you start? What do you do to ensure the success of your expansion? Campus […]

WebVTS, JSA Technologies’ flagship product, is a key way to generate revenues for colleges and universities that use it as part of their campus card program. It enables students and parents to revalue card accounts via the web, bringing more dollars into play. And, if students have more to spend, they…well, they spend it. “We […]

Arthur Blank & Co., which specializes in all facets of custom printed plastic cards, such as access cards for a variety of venues, including hotels, hospitals, and colleges, has developed a new direct marketing approach involving plastic card coupons resembling credit cards. This new scheme provides a longer life span for the coupons, the company […]