BY JOHN FRANK CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Japanese credit-card giant JCB Co. Ltd. is backing three Asian contactless card projects, convinced consumers will appreciate the quicker throughput and convenience of contactless technology. Two projects are in Japan while a third is in Taiwan. In Taiwan, JCB issuer Taipai Bank already has distributed roughly 3,000 smart cards to […]

This month the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) selected ERG Transit Systems and Northrop Grumman IT to install and operate a new Regional Customer Service Center for its smart card-based fare collection system, known as SmarTrip. The project involves the establishment and operation of a smart card customer service center, card management, and the […]

BY JANE ADAMS CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Traditionally, contactless technology has been used primarily for mass transit. However, during 2002 both Visa and MasterCard announced contactless payments specifications based on standardized contactless technology. Its use has also been growing in the access control and network security, and authentication markets. While contact cards need physical contact to communicate, […]

I, like you, have spent a disproportionate percentage of my life on college campuses. Through my work, I have spent time on literally hundreds of campuses around the country and even abroad.   Each campus is unique, each has its own personality, each has things that make it special and set it apart from the […]

It is not uncommon for a college campus to have less than one parking space for every ten students. Add faculty and staff, visitors, and vendors to that equation and it is easy to see why a parking is among the top complaints and concerns on campus today. Multimillion dollar parking garages, land grabs, and […]

Validating people, not plastic, sounds good on paper and is, in fact, one of the reasons cited by some colleges and universities for controlling building access-primarily dorms, or sororities/fraternities-with biometric hand readers.   Johnson and Wales (JWU), in Denver, Colorado, San Diego State University (SDSU), and, most recently, the University of Central Florida (UCF) in […]

From identity theft to Homeland Security, the first ever Inside ID conference and trade show covered a true range of ID bases in three days last month in Washington, D.C. Called a “Mega Show” and created by industry pioneer Ben Miller, the conference attracted a broad spectrum of companies and speakers. “We wanted to help […]

Does your company offer parking access and/or payment solutions? Mark Reinart, Manager Marketing Systems and Development, Diebold Numerous Colleges and Universities use their Diebold CS Gold card system to manage and control campus parking. The flexible access control features of CS Gold tailor nicely to fit the needs of these campuses. Features like anti-pass back, […]

How can campus card administrators make a difference in the crucial campus service issue of parking? Mark Reinart, Manager Marketing Systems and Development, Diebold Providing comprehensive systems with a full suite of integrated applications provides end users the growth path and long system life cycle they should expect from their investment. Reducing the need to […]

Welcome to the premiere issue of SecureIDNews-a publication that our team is committed to making the number one resource for up-to-the-minute insight on identification and authentication technologies. This is a place to leave your technology biases at home. In each and every issue our editorial team will cut through the sales pitches, the technical mumbo-jumbo, […]