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Smart cards are the key to secure campus card systems in '05

Friday, December 17, 2004

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December.

“Erudition Within a Lyceum – Requisite for Financial Recovery” There are many aspects in a campus environment that mimic the real world. It is the real world issues that surround the administrators and force decisions to be made in order that our future leaders and doers can become educated. To facilitate a positive learning environment takes much planning with ingenuity to meet these student driven demands.


In our 15+ years servicing this industry, we find a plethora of applications that operate within this microcosm we call a campus. To provide student bodies that range in population from 1,000 to 60,000 is akin to running a town that requires much of the same operations. Housing, feeding, laundry, parking, copy, print, access, resource centers, computer labs are a sampling of the resources normally ascribed to campuses and towns.

How to control and recover the cost of these operations is paramount to maintaining the lifestyle mandate of the student population. In our quest to appease these necessities, ITC Systems provides complete, yet customized card based network solutions. Our program offering generating attention encompasses all aspects under one card. That card is a Smart Card.

Campus customers incorporate the technology usually in stages. Due to the tremendous advantages of a truly secure system, Smart Cards are the future for cards on campus. Complete reconciliation of all purchases and activities within these microcosms is a key element for settlement with the many merchants engaged within. All reporting of transactions performed via native network infrastructure gives credence to ease of implementation and the phased approach.

Combining technology with users implores details that only companies with years of implementations, like ITC Systems who engineer, manufacture and integrate their solutions can handle competently. Our future depends on you, we listen as you define.


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HID Global has announced the successful completion of the world’s first university pilot of NFC smart phones carrying digital keys.

First announced in September, the pilot involved a select group of students and staff at Arizona State University using NFC-enabled smart phones equipped with HID’s Secure Identity Object (SIO) Technology. Participants could gain access to their residence halls and other secure access areas by tapping their handset against a reader embedded in the door and entering a PIN, rather than use their plastic campus card.

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Florida students have more payment options thanks to wireless WaveRiders

A new laundry payment and management system at the University of Florida accepts the GatorOne campus ID card as well as credit and debit cards.

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Fox News Business has taken a look at university IDs that also double as prepaid cards. Fox dubs the prepaid aspect as “the latest twist on a long tradition of college campus ID cards serving a dual financial purpose.”

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The OneCard from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, can now be used at three off-campus restaurants with more merchants set to join.

“It’s a project we’ve been working on for some time now and its finally coming to fruition,” said OneCard Coordinator Chris Bird.

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Missouri State University in Springfield is rolling out its new Bear Pass, a student ID card that also provides door access and debit card functionality. The purpose behind the new card is to make the campus safer while keeping a student’s information secure, according to school officials.

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As part of its upgrade of services, the University of Salford Manchester, UK will issue a new all-in-one, electronic ID card. The new single card will replace the previous installment which required students to carry two, sometimes three, different types of cards.

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