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Campus Card Life Hack: Cincy’s Dining Hall Fast Lane

Video highlights use of existing hardware to speed dining hall queue

Andrew Hudson   ||   Mar 10, 2017  ||   ,

The University of Cincinnati has built an effective and efficient means to increase throughput at its campus dining facilities with a clever use of existing hardware and a few additional, cost-effective components.

A card office "life hack" that a number of campuses could benefit from, check out how Cincy built its red light, green light verification hardware and how it's being deployed at key campus locations to revamp previously slow-moving queues.

If your campus has devised a "life hack" for its card office, card system, or similar auxiliary environment, send a tip in to CR80News and it could be featured!

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