Hong Kong’s Advanced Card Systems (ACS) has announced the successful deployments of its ACOS6 Multi-application & Purse (MAP) Card and ACOS7 Dual Interface Smart Card. According to ACS, the ACOS6 was deployed for two major projects in Eastern Europe – an e-purse card system for factories and an e-ID system for universities. More than 100,000 […]

On average it can take a college students 132 days before they realize they have become an ID theft victim, says Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, in a local news report. “For persons ages 18-24, its takes up to five times longer to discover that their identity and their credit score may have been damaged,” […]

“Colleges and universities are leading the way with multiple-use contactless ID cards that contain several applications, and the broader community could learn a lot from them,” said Jim Ellis, director of Contactless Payments at HID Global. Higher education institutions utilize contactless technology to perform multiple functions for students, faculty and staff including: physical access to […]

BadgePass enables a school to integrate its different access control databases into one, says Lindsay Cornell, dealer manager at the ID Group Inc., which sells BadgePass. The visitor management application lets an organization read a driver license, credit card or other type of government-issued identification so a school can know who is in a particular […]

The lower cost of contactless smart cards is making the technology more competitive with legacy proximity cards, says Jennifer Toscano, marketing manager at Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies. Smart cards offer more security than prox and enable end users to add applications beyond access control, Toscano says. Schlage, a division of Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, is […]

sQuid, provider of contactless eMoney solutions for campuses and The London School of Economics and Political Science announced the launch of sQuid on the LSE card. Students and staff can go online to pre-load the card with funds to spend at various on-campus restaurants, cafes, and libraries. The card also has a loyalty purse included, […]

A new system has been set into place for the thousands of Abilene Christian University students, faculty and guests who will attend home football games this year, according to a university student newspaper. Normally, anyone who graduated from university and still had a campus ID card could show it and still gain free access to […]

Students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will soon be able to add money to their Cougar Cards from any computer with Internet access, according to the university’s student publication. SIUE students use money on these cards to purchase food from vending machines, pay for parking and to copy and print documents around campus. Students currently […]

The Student Recreation and Wellness Center at California State University Long Beach recently had a computer system crash, which according to a CSULB student publication, resulted in long lines and confusion among students. The system crash affected the computer system and the biometrics hand print device students used to check in students. Instead of asking […]

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, manufacturer of Schlage contactless smart credentials and readers, has partnered with Identification Systems Group (ISG) to deliver printing, personalization, enrollment and issuance products. Pairing Schlage technology with that of ISG, this new partnership aims to streamline the credential issuance process and its activation. ISG has developed an automated method of issuing […]