Bright Way College in Jankipuram in India has implemented a system developed by biometrics developer GI Biometric Solutions in hopes of better protecting its students from being sent home with people that are not supposed to be picking up the...
A primary school in Manchester, UK is piloting a program in which students as young as four years old use fingerprints rather than library cards to check out books from the school library. The new program is meeting some opposition,...
Law requires schools to make sure students can’t cheat By Autumn C. Giusti, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications A new federal law is forcing colleges and universities to implement security measures to make sure students enrolled in online classes are who...
Free webinar: Thursday, August 5, 2010 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM EDT During this webinar, industry veteran Brad Jarvis of HID Global will explore the current and future industry requirements and challenges facing the physical and logical access control (PACs)...
sQuid is launching a smart card and biometric solution that will allow students to make cashless purchases at school. With the new system, parents can load money onto their children’s smart cards or biometric devices via a secure Web portal....
Pilot project enabled bookstore payments via microSD equipped handset At Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg, 120 students and faculty members are using their cell phones to make payments in the campus bookstore. The mobile technology startup, RFinity, developed the secure...
The Hull Trinity House School in Yorkshire, UK has become the first Hull school in its area to utilize a biometric system in replacement of school lunch payment programs, according to a Yorkshire Post article. As has been common at...
Canadian grad school students are showing concern over the use of biometric scanners used to authenticate test takers who wish to gain entrance into business and medical programs, according to the Toronto Star. To eliminate cheating the system is designed...
The Fort Crawford Elementary School, located in the Pittsburgh area, has implemented a pilot program allowing its students to utilize biometrics to pay for their lunch instead of money or an access code, according to a Pittsburgh Trib Total Media...
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Great inverview on the Public Key Open Credential (PKOC) standard with ELATEC's Jason Ouellette, Chairman of the Board for the @PSIAlliance.
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