Hypercom equipment and technologies deliver ideal applications for educational environments. Personalized smart cards can combine with Hypercom terminals to control access to specialized classrooms and laboratories.

Educational institutions around the world are reorganizing processes for administering services. Since most institutions have older computer systems that are not integrated and do not share information, their ID, library, lab entry and food service card information is kept separate. The results of this non-integration are:

• Excessive time and money spent maintaining separate systems
• Data has to be entered multiple times to address different system needs

As educational institutions make those strategic decisions that dictate how efficiently their organizations can function, they are integrating their various systems and using one card to access all these applications. Hypercom point of transaction products are efficiently able to service these organizations by providing an architecture which easily supports this integration.