Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

Delaware college housing secured by SALTO Systems

Monday, March 2, 2009

Delaware College of Art and Design in Wilmington has chosen a networked smart card access control solution using SALTO’s XS4 System to secure its upgraded urban campus student housing.


With the renovated apartments located in an urban environment, the college needed to upgrade the apartments’ locking systems from the mechanical key-based system to a smart access control solution that could provide management with audit trail information and lock battery status without having to visit all the doors in the building.

The system incorporates electronic mortise locks with deadbolts, two hotspot wall readers and panic devices, all controlled via contactless MIFARE-enabled key fobs. The wireless system also utilizes the SALTO Virtual Network and 48 off-line XS4 locks fitted to each individual student apartment. [end] 

Personal information of 9,000 current and prospective students was inadvertently posted online by Valencia College in Orlando. The school has apologized for the mistake.

The information included the students’ names, addresses, dates of birth and student ID numbers but not their Social Security numbers or financial information.

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“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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Campus card provider NuVision Networks, Napa, Calif., has named Brian Adoff as the company’s new executive vice president.

Adoff, formerly NuVision’s national sales manager, will now oversee company-wide operations and develop strategic partnerships.

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Seventeen surveillance cameras have been installed at a dorm at Ohio University with plans to equip the rest of the school’s dorms in the future. However, that could take 10 to 15 years, said one school official.

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