RegardingID Archive | Florida cafeteria to use biometrics

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The Tampa Tribune reports that Schrader Elementary and Chasco Middle School in New Port Richey, Fla., will test a new program this month in the hope of speeding up their lunch lines.

The biometrics system, sold by School-Link Technologies, is similar to one used by pass holders at Disney’s theme parks in Orlando. If the system works well, it will be installed at Veterans Elementary in Wesley Chapel and Crews Lake Middle in Shady Hills, which open next year, and phased in during the next three to five years.

The cost, about $350 a keypad, is about the same as replacing the old system, which is about 10 years old. The scanner collects and stores a numerical pattern that denotes contours rather than a fingerprint, and no fingerprints may be retrieved from the system. Parents who do not wish to have their children participate may opt out of the pilot program.

New airport e-gate supports multimodal biometrics

Vision-Box, a biometrics solutions provider, has come out with an automatic border control e-gate that supports multimodal biometric authentication.

This new e-gate is a thin system that contains vb i-match, a single sourced design that is modular and flexible and can be adapted to business requirements and infrastructure constraints that would otherwise disrupt passenger flow. It has the ability to cope with industry standards such as ICAO. The e-gate supports iris, fingerprint and facial biometrics.

Finger scanning utilized at two West Virginia high schools

High schools in Jefferson County, W.V. will be implementing biometric finger scanning in an effort to provide security for the students’ cafeteria accounts. Purpose of the program, according to school officials, is to eliminate clerical errors and to provide students with an easy way to identify themselves when using the cafeteria.

Student ID number replaces cash at school cafeteria

Students at the Salem, Ark. high school need to only punch in their ID number at the start of the cafeteria line in order to eat lunch. The program, called Etrition, includes a terminal at the start of the food service line which eliminates the need for diners to pay cash and receive change from a cashier.

Upgraded Rattler Card coming to Florida A&M

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.

Zoom Tan taps DigitalPersona

DigitalPersona Inc. announced that tanning salon company Zoom Tan has integrated DigitalPersona U.are.U Fingerprint Readers into the company’s customer- and employee-facing ZoomPay software.

With ZoomPay, salon members can use their fingerprint to sign-in for tanning sessions and make purchases without the need to bring their credit cards or membership information to the salon. Similarly, employees can use ZoomPay to clock in.

Fingerprint Cards extends Miaxis partnership with eye on Chinese banking sector

Sensor supplier Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) has extended its partnership with Chinese biometrics provider Miaxis Biometrics Co. LTD to deliver biometrics products to the Chinese banking sector.

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