Word: cards
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...addition, student groups such as The Crimson or Harvard Student Agencies take advantage of the ID card system by allowing only staff members whose keycard numbers have been encoded into the buildings' security systems to enter their respective buildings. (Both organizations are independent of the University...
...People just need to get the card close to the special reader, and that will unlock the door," Lichten says. "Someone in a wheelchair or who has a disability with their hands won't have to get the card out and swipe...
When you swipe your ID card anywhere on campus, the reader extracts your ID number from the magnetic strip on the back and sends it to a server to determine authentication...
...Crimson Cash and door privileges do not sit on the cards themselves," says Jeffrey B. Cuppett, HUDS manager of card application technologies. "Every time you go to the Coop or Loker to make a transaction there, it queries our server, and it tells our server whether to let you in [to the sys tem]," he says...
David R. Wamback, coordinator of ID cards and information retrieval for HUID, says, "The general `Harvard Card' is pre-printed with a specific design. We use a DataCard 9000 machine to `personalize' each card. It is a modular system that a) encodes the mag-stripe and tests the encoding, b) adds graphics such as the bar-code, faculty and general role, c) prints an image of the individual using a dye sublimation process, d) adds a protective coating, e) embosses the card with the ID number, name, and faculty code, and finally, f) coats the embossing for readability...