NSU Academical Village Features Smart Cards

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM

Nova Southeastern University (NSU), the nation's seventh largest private university, has chosen multi-functional smart card solutions using a new generation of contact and contactless smart card technologies from Siemens.

The smart card solutions are essential components of NSU's “academical village” vision to bring technology advancements to its campus environment over the next decade.

The new smart card technologies will help NSU to more efficiently manage and control security privileges for buildings, residence halls, laboratories, IT infrastructures and critical shared applications. In a strategic relationship to help provide NSU with a wide choice of smart card benefits such as cashless payment, biometric applications, e-ticketing and much more, Siemens is working with SmartCentric Technologies International Ltd. to integrate the Siemens solutions with SmartCentric's multi-application smart card portfolio.

“We are making it easier for students, faculty and visitors to get the right access privileges — all through one smart card,” says George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., NSU's executive vice president and chief executive officer. “This is part of NSU's vision to create an ‘academical’ village community for our patrons that is both secure and, at the same time, open for access.”

The initial deployment phase will include the distribution of more than 30,000 chip-embedded multi-application cards, using both contact and contactless radio frequency identification technologies.

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