The University of Central Missouri is nearing completion of a campus-wide electronic access control project that began in fall 2022. With this final phase underway, more than 600 doors in 45 buildings will be equipped with the new readers, and...
Facial recognition already unlock phones, expedites airport passage, and replaces IDs for door access, but now it’s efficacy is being testing in college classrooms. Chafic Bou-Saba teaches information systems at Guilford College. He believes he can improve student academic performance...
Security provider, Allegion US, is partnering with The "I Love U Guys" Foundation to contribute to the group’s programs for school crisis response. The goal is to make schools safer together through the development and dissemination of procedures and standard...
By Michael Harris, Vice President of Sales for the Eastern US, Alert Enterprise Higher education institutions are facing unprecedented challenges in managing campus security. With a myriad of disparate security solutions, homegrown databases and technologies that seldom integrate smoothly, campus...
While most institutions are eliminating physical keys in favor of cards and mobile credentials, Saint Louis University (SLU) was forced to make the opposite move. This comes after a student illegally cloned a valid ‘master’ card and used it to...
Ohio State University’s BuckID program began a campuswide transition to include contactless technology in all university ID cards. Starting in summer 2023, all new cards issued included both a mag stripe and a DESFire contactless chip. “We had been issuing...
HID and Olea Kiosks are partnering to deliver self-service kiosks that expedite and secure user authentication, check-in, and access. Using facial recognition technology, the devices can rapidly authenticate users in secure facilities and high-throughput environments. In addition to the facial...
To attract and retain modern students in on-campus housing, institutions need to invest in advanced technology such as mobile access, secure credentials, wifi, and apps. In the multi-family housing world, such technologies are called ‘proptech’ (property technology). In this episode...
In its annual “State of the Physical Security 2024” study, Genetec surveyed more than 5,500 end users and channel partners to get their perspectives on the market in 2023. Of the respondents, 32% were from North America and the remaining...
The Amazon One Enterprise solution is a palm-based identity service that enables employees and other authorized users to access to buildings and facilities as well as computers, data, and online services. In the announcement, AWS highlights its increased security...
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