In locations where laptops or wireless technology just won’t cut it, many college campuses are turning to personal digital assistants (PDA), combined with add-on card swipe devices, to verify student eligibility for certain events. A handful of companies have such...
What solutions do you provide to campus clients seeking to improve service delivery in student activities such as athletics, intramurals, recreation facilities, etc.? Tom Bell, VP Industry Relations, Blackboard What a great question. Campus athletic and recreation facilities have become...
Do you offer any handheld computer or PDA technology and how are your campus clients using these devices? Tom Bell, VP Industry Relations, Blackboard Blackboard offers clients the Wireless Activity Reader as a solution for a variety needs. As an...
Biometrics are defined as "automated methods of recognizing a person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic. Among the features measured are; face, fingerprints, hand geometry, handwriting, iris, retinal, vein, and voice. Biometric technologies are becoming the foundation of an...
Validating people, not plastic, sounds good on paper and is, in fact, one of the reasons cited by some colleges and universities for controlling building access-primarily dorms, or sororities/fraternities-with biometric hand readers. Johnson and Wales (JWU), in Denver, Colorado,...
Miwa Lock has launched their new AL5H hotel card lock system that combines Magstripe and smart card technologies into one lock to meet a wide variety of hotel security needs. The AL5H has been designed to offer ‘one lock does...
Device Reads Smart Cards, Biometric Templates, 2D Bar Codes & More Simultaneously WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ – Datastrip announced today that it is adding support for HID’s iCLASS 13.56 MHz contactless smart card technology to its DSVerify2D handheld ID card...
Biometric technology is now a crucial component of high security physical access control systems. U.S. government agencies, private industry, and higher education campuses are seriously considering the benefits of a second level of physical security that incorporates the use of...
ViVOtech has recently completed a pilot project at Santa Clara University, allowing PalmOS-driven PDAs and cellphones to wirelessly send campus debit card account information to a point of sale terminal. The pilot group paid for products at on-campus locations as...
Ohio State students donate money to Relay for Life via a mobile terminal at a charity gathering in the Union. Duke University pilots declining balance payments against food service accounts using a handheld palm computer. Creighton University in Nebraska authorizes...
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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
