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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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Tallahassee-based Florida A&M University and campus card service provider CardSmith have announced plans to upgrade the university’s multi-functional Rattler Card program.

The new Rattler Card will feature Rattler Bucks, a prepaid spending account offering FAMU’s more than 13,000 students cashless access to an expanded range of campus facilities and services including the bookstore, dining venues, mobile payments, campus offices and off-campus merchants.

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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.

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The market for smart cards and secure ICs achieved double-digit year-over-year growth for shipments in 2011, demonstrating increases of 16% and 15%, respectively, according to ABI Research

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Tom Bell offers expertise to campus card directors

Paraphrasing a famous comedian, Tom Bell says that campus card programs ‘get no respect.’ This is despite the fact that if a school’s card program were suddenly to go away, he believes the university would practically shut down.

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Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, has partnered with the Discover Money Network to enable students to open an account with the university’s Student Account Services. It would be separate from their school account and can be used anywhere Discover cards are accepted.

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U.S. Bank and Oakland Community College, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., have launched a combined campus ID and prepaid MasterCard program for the school’s 78,000 students and 788 staff members.

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