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Date Posted: 08:37:40 02/01/03 Sat In reply to: Issue 6 February/March 1998THE SMART CAMPUS Newsletter 's message, "Proton loyalty schemeSchlumberger, and AES ProdataMIFAREr" on 08:36:38 02/01/03 Sat Gaby agrees with most of what Tina has said; it is essential to accommodate existing card schemes (e.g., library-style bar-codes printed on a smart card), start with a single card and function, move gradually towards the ideal of a multi-function smart card, and bear in mind all the time the customer’s purchasing power and priorities. There is room for creative thinking here; even though e-purse may not be a priority for a campus in terms of its functions, and indeed could be a threat to finances by reducing on-campus cashflow, a bank might like the idea of a commission-free campus purse enough to share the float profits with the university. If the university issues its own EMV-compatible purse in a card that can carry 15 applications, Mondex, VisaCash and any future purse can take their own slots on it. For ICTS and its campus customers, though, the priority is access control, something that costs universities millions of pounds. The system recommended by the company is shown below: Smart cards in access control Magnetic stripe aspect Smart card aspect Main access gates Departmental doors On-line doors and gates Off-line (and some on-line) doors Communicating card readers Mixture of motorised and non-motorised card readers Managed by security service Department produces own access rules Mixed mag. stripe and smart cards disseminate blacklist through all campus doors and gates. Trials for the mixed card system have begun in Hertfordshire University. Main gates, with a footfall of up to 10,000 a day, need the speed of a magnetic stripe system, which is linked on-line to a central controller carrying details of legitimate users and their access rights. Doors giving access to department facilities, such as animal houses, use a much cheaper smart card system, and the rules can be determined and policed by the department. Blacklisted cards are identified via the main access gates and the blacklisting is recorded on the cards, so that, if the offender tries to use them throughout the campus, each door receives the information and most doors will ‘know’ within 24 hours that a card is no longer valid. Motorised doors can, in addition, swallow any invalid card. Because students attempt to break into the chip, creating a ‘very challenging environment’, ICTS uses very secure and expensive chips from SGS Thomson, and its own silicon design and operating system. The access system can be accompanied by public kiosks which attract student use by providing useful information (for example, about exams) and Internet access, as well as recording their whereabouts on campus. The kiosks were designed following failure to persuade students to use their cards to register their attendance at lectures and seminars. A culture change is needed before this is acceptable - but some university clients do use portable units from Thyron to establish students’ right to sit exams. The linking of the student to the card is still incomplete, though; photos are some value, but no acceptable biometric is yet available. Running the system in-house takes more manpower - 1-2 extra people are needed for the in-house card-printing bureau - but there are savings on access control. SmartCity Denise McDonald of ICL Ireland Staying with the theme of smart cards on campus, , and expanding on an earlier article in THE SMART CAMPUS newsletter, Denise discusses the SmartCity smart card system used first in 1996 by the University of Florida as a replacement for an existing scheme. The reasons for the university’s decision are shown below: Motivators for the SmartCity move multiple cards on site cost of handling cash and cash theft opportunity to increase card-based functions ability to accommodate legacy systems good vehicle for new applications Because American students pay their fees directly to the university, e-purse is a much more important application than it is in Britain. The interest on the float account of $40m a year, shared equally with a campus-based bank handling the fees, is an important addition to the university’s budget. In due course Florida will add the bank’s ATM magnetic stripe application, as well as offering two purses, one with and one without PIN protection. Smart card access control is coming in, too, along with parking, random checking of attendance via portable units, Internet access, student records and distance learning facilities. A nice touch is the equipping of campus vending machines and machines such as launderettes and telephones with smart card interfaces. Manufacturers will be required to add such interfaces if their contracts are to be renewed, but many take advantage anyway of the opportunity to offer loyalty incentives. In Britain, Thames Valley University is the first ICL customer for SmartCity, providing 25,000 students with ID campus cards that combine three existing cards. The main incentive for students is the print kiosk, but the university benefits most from being able to speed up registration. Cards can now be produced in less than three minutes from the entry of student details. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |