HID’s NFC phsycial access control project is garnering buzz
The NFC project at Arizona State University (ASU) is becoming quite the celebrity. No longer are a student’s smart phones just the key to their social lives. It’s also the key to their dorm rooms, according to CBS 5 report.
With only a small number of students and faculty members currently using the system, ASU director of business applications Laura Ploughe stated the system may not only be used for opening doors in the future.
Ploughe explained further that the Sun Devil’s plans to expand the NFC system to support laundry and vending, campus transit and cashless payment.
Staci Finkel, engineering junior at ASU, says the new system is “more convenient” because you always have your phone with you. “It’s never out of arms reach.”
Watch a video of the news report here.
See CR80’s previous coverage of the ASU project here.