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The smart card slot!

The smart card slot!. Sara Eyre Head of IT Customer Services s.j.eyre@bradford.ac.uk. Or how to produce an attendance monitoring system using the access control system. Why do you need attendance monitoring. Need to monitor physical presence of undergraduates at lectures for borders agency

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The smart card slot!

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  1. The smart card slot! Sara Eyre Head of IT Customer Services s.j.eyre@bradford.ac.uk Or how to produce an attendance monitoring system using the access control system

  2. Why do you need attendance monitoring • Need to monitor physical presence of undergraduates at lectures for borders agency • Academic engagement –identify students with potential to drop out • Ensure attendance and engagement before bursaries paid • For professionalbody approval –Health, Social Work, Life Sciences courses • Lots of paper based manual systems in operation at present

  3. History of smart cards at Bradford • Smart cards with MiFare 1K chip for photocopying and Library access introduced for students in Summer 2002 • Bar code for Library management system • Also introduced cards for staff for Library access • Amazing how few had them when we upgraded!

  4. Access control system at Bradford • Progeny (MiFare based) and Integra (mag stripe based) systems in use on separate cards • Both highly labour intensive to support as each lock has to be visited and updated • Salto project started summer 2005 • originally to protect new AV equipment in teaching rooms–so staff only

  5. Salto proved popular • Soon students needed access to major buildings • Salto database updated daily from student record and HR systems using Calopus • All student cards programmed with Salto capability from Summer 2007 as part of enrolment process

  6. Salto in April2009 • On line locks – 113 • Now on entrance to most buildings • Many corridors • Car park barriers linked to Salto system summer 2008 • Off line locks – 361 • On centrally timetabled teaching rooms • On equipment cupboards in teaching rooms • Staff only areas • Card plus PIN locks installed for secure areas • 100+ awaiting installation

  7. Key advantages of Salto • Online locks interrogate central database in real time for appropriate access rights • Online locks transfer audit trail to central database • Black list of users transferred from online lock to every card

  8. Key advantages - off line locks • Receive updated black list from users’ cards • Store audit trail of cards used and write it back to each card • transferred to central database via next use of an on line lock • An off line lock can be portable so can be passed round classroom Choose the SVN Virtual network option from Salto web site for a better explanation! www.saltosystems.com

  9. So how does this help attendance monitoring? • Salto database contains user id, date,time and lock id • Plan to extract data into the attendance field of the student record system, SITS • SITS will trigger text message and emails for non-attendanceto student and, later, course administrators and UKBA administrator • Attendance data can be extracted by anyone with SITS access

  10. Assumptions made at Bradford • That we can match a portable card reader to a particular lecture or lab session • We do not want to issue new cards to all students • If one student asks another one to ‘swipe them in’ they are still engaged with the University • Accessing the Library or other building entry point does not satisfy the UKBA • Departments will extract their own class attendance data • if any professional body requires this information

  11. The issues! • Do you want to use bio-metrics to ensure Person and not Card is being monitored? • Has anyone done this yet in HE? Costs? • How to stop one person swiping lots of cards? • Who verifies the person and card match? • How do you prevent queues down corridors at the start of lectures if you use door readers? • How do you know student has then attended the lecture? • Bradford aim to use portable readers in large classes • What constitutes a ‘Contact point’?

  12. Smart card futures at Bradford • Mifare 4Kplus JCOP for use with Sun Rays • 22,000 just ordered as part of JISC project ITS 4 SEA • Still mag stripe for access control in old halls • Still bar code for Library self- issue and self-return • Printing and copying using Pharos –purse NOT on card • Sport Centre control –purse NOT on card • Possible cashless vending - ????? • Legacy access control systems (100+) nearly redundant • but it has taken over 4 years and over £20,000

  13. The end • Subscribe to smartcards@jiscmail.ac.uk • Join the Higher Education Smart Card Association www.hesca.com • www.saltosystems.com • ITS 4 SEA – Integrating Thin client and Smart cards For Secure E-Assessment http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/institutionalinnovation/its4sea.aspx Any questions?

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