Transcript The smart card slot! - SROC - Student Records Officer

The smart card slot!
Sara Eyre
Head of IT Customer Services
[email protected]
Or how to produce an attendance monitoring system
using the access control system
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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 professional body approval – Health, Social Work,
Life Sciences courses
– Lots of paper based manual systems in operation at present
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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!
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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
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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
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Salto in April 2009
• On line locks – 113
– Now on entrance to most
buildings
– Many corridors
– Car park barriers linked to
Salto system summer 2008
• Card plus PIN locks
installed for secure areas
• Off line locks – 361
– On centrally timetabled
teaching rooms
– On equipment cupboards in
teaching rooms
– Staff only areas
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• 100+ awaiting installation
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
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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
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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 nonattendance to student and, later, course administrators
and UKBA administrator
• Attendance data can be extracted by anyone with SITS
access
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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
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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’?
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Smart card futures at Bradford
• Mifare 4K plus 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
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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
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The end
• Subscribe to [email protected]
• 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
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