How do you know what your children are really spending their lunch money on? How many times has your child forget their PIN code or left their lunch card at home so they can’t purchase any lunch at school? Biometric technology has made its way into our school cafeterias. Finger scans are now being used to access personal accounts set up by parents. Food Service Solutions has developed a biometric system with point-of-sale readers in school cafeterias. The fingerprints are not stored as an image but as mathematical information only. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/archive-4.gif)
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Students in Cabell County middle and high schools will soon be paying for their meals using fingerprint scanning technology, according to The Herald-Dispatch. Cabell County joins other counties in West Virginia already using the technology in an effort to improve the speed and accuracy of school breakfast and lunch lines. The county sent out letters to parents notifying them of the change, but still questions and concerns have been raised regarding the fingerprint scanning system. read more »Visa is teaming up with MTN Group, a teleco operating in Africa and the Middle East, to offer a new mobile prepaid account service that will provide secure financial services and electronic payments to unbanked consumers in developing countries. read more »Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools are in the process of moving to a unified card system, combining the district-issued city bus pass, school library card, student ID and lunch number all into one. read more »The UK’s YESpay International and YES-wallet.com have teamed up to build an NFC-enabled cloud-based mobile payments platform. By integrating the YES-wallet Pouch digital wallet with YESpay EMBOSS payment service, the companies will provide a platform that encompasses e-Money, pre-paid and gift-card payments based on Visa PayWave and MasterCard PayPass contactless standards. read more »Biometric technology expedites lunch lines By Ross Mathis, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications The Pinellas County School Board District in Clearwater, Fla. has paired up with technology provider Fujitsu Frontech North America to provide a reliable and secure method of handling school food service program transactions. read more »A pilot program is in the works to replace the New York City MetroCard with a chip-enabled smart card, according to the New York Times. read more » |
