Following the successful completion of an NFC pilot at Villanova University, The CBORD Group and Ingersoll Rand are wrapping up a second test, this one at the University of San Francisco. Like the Villanova pilot, the first phase of the USF project involved door access. Additionally, it included payments at laundry terminals. Both access and […]

The Transportation Security Administration wants its inspectors to be able to spot fraudulent IDs or boarding passes without using a magnifying glass. To that end, the TSA has initiated a pilot program to test technologies supplied by three companies. The end goal is for inspectors to spot fake documents via electronic scanning. The first pilot […]

The National Association of Campus Card Users awarded Arizona State University its Innovative Technology Award in recognition of the school’s work piloting an NFC-enabled smart phone to control door access. To conduct the test, which was completed last summer, a group of ASU staff and students were given NFC smart phones containing HID Global’s Secure […]

IdentiSys acquired the ID Division of Claritus, which provides identification technology solutions including card personalization and smart card/biometric applications to clients in Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa. This purchase is IdentiSys’s ninth acquisition in the last seven years. “With the addition of the Claritus ID Division, we now offer sales and on-site services in over […]

Yubico, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of online identity protection, says its YubiKey is being chosen by more and more Swedish schools and municipalities to meet the government’s requirements for strong two-factor authentication. Lerum Kommun, Sweden is the latest region to deploy YubiKeys for staff and students who need to access cloud-based school systems. The […]

Two schools in the Northside Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas will pilot a program that places a an RFID chip into student IDs. This will enable teachers and school administrators to pinpoint a student’s location while at school. It will cost the district about $10 to $15 a student for the RFID chip or […]

CPI Card Group, a Littleton, Colo. producer of financial and commercial cards, has purchased the operating assets of UK company ID Data Cards. The transaction enables CPI to strengthen its secure card production and fulfillment capabilities worldwide. This purchase is expected to help CPI meet the increasing demand for prepaid, EMV, contact and contactless payment […]

Administrators at eduKan, a consortium of six Kansas colleges created to offer online courses, are using BioSig-ID, a software only biometric solution, to discourage cheating among students involved in the schools’ distance education programs. The technology enables the colleges to determine that the student taking the course and the test is the same student who […]

Missouri State University has selected Blackboard Transact to implement a contactless student ID card. This enables the new system to integrate student identification, door security, commerce and campus payment into a single contactless card. The new BearPass ID card uses Sony’s FeliCa contactless technology and works with Blackboard-enabled smart card readers–which also support magnetic stripe […]

Students from the Art Institute of California, San Bernardino, have joined other students from other area colleges in using their ID cards to ride the local Omnitrans buses. With a simple swipe of their card, students can ride the buses at anytime on any route, not just to and from campus. Swiping the ID cards […]