By Andy Williams, Associate Editor Wired locks were proving difficult at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. Because of this the college turned to wireless doors both to provide more security for its 2,100 female students, and to give...
By Andy Williams, Associate Editor Television shows like HBO’s The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street depict Baltimore as a gritty city. While the shows are fiction, crime is a real concern and Johns Hopkins University is testing a...
Using their new contactless student ID card, called RamCard 2.0, students and faculty at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., will be able to gain entry to various campus buildings, including dorms, without keys. The new keyless entry system costs...
Onity, a global provider of electronic locking solutions, has taken self serve to the next level. Returning college students don’t have to go to the school’s office to get their new room assignments. If they have a current student ID...
Washington-based campus card provider Blackboard Inc. says some 14 colleges, universities and K-12 institutions, have selected the Blackboard campus commerce and security management platform. These institutions have joined hundreds of others which have signed up for campus ID card technology,...
Bowdoin College students and faculty returning from winter break next month will be receiving a new ID card expected to increase on-campus security. The Brunswick, Maine school is in the process of converting to a new one-card system from campus...
Time and attendance, identification and access authorization are three of the applications available on the campus card used by students at the University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. Other applications on the card supplied by Swiss contactless card provider LEGIC Identsystems,...
While Harvard’s new contactless student ID cards get high marks for the university’s forward thinking, the school’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, panned the cards for creating a high frustration level. The reason? It’s hard to find the “sweet spot”...
Sargent and Persona have announced a new physical access control system for college campuses. The SARGENT Passport 1000 lockset, available in offline and WiFi-enabled versions, is an electronic locking system that operates with PERSONA Campus software. The Grade 1 lock...
Okanagan College in British Columbia has become the third college in Canada to choose SALTO Systems to provide a contactless electronic access control solution. The first building to roll out the system will be the new $28 million Centre for...
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Attn: friends in the biometrics space. Nominations close Friday for the annual Women in Biometrics Awards. Take five minutes to recognize a colleague or even yourself. http://WomenInBiometrics.com
Feb. 1 webinar explores how mobile ordering enhanced campus life, increased sales at UVA and Central Washington @Grubhub @CBORD
