Biometric Device Used To Pay For Meals
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It takes more than a lunch lady to run today’s public school cafeterias. It takes a logistics expert.
Take Rome’s West End Elementary, where two classrooms of students charge into the lunchroom every five minutes, load their trays up with corn dogs, steak nuggets and fresh fruit and pile into cashier Lydia Galego’s line.
Galego, though, has a new tool to help handle the rush. Each student stops at a computer in front of Galego and presses an index finger up to a reader before trotting off to a table. The student’s names flash across Galego’s monitor, and each of their prepaid accounts are automatically debited $1.10.
Colleges and high schools have used fingerprint scanners to stop non-students from sneaking into dining halls and gyms. Now elementary schools are joining in, hoping that biometric devices are a good way to keep lines moving and pay for meals. [Source: AP via The Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
[tags]biometric, fingerprint, biometric payment, Lydia Galego[/tags]
One Comment
Sameha
May 11th, 2007
at 10:04pm
Identifying the students from their root traits and tracking information through fingerprint scanners is definitely a positive technological step forward. Fingerprint scanners systems are great replacements for ID cards. In fact now a days more and more organizations are implementing Fingerprint scanners in their software system, and conducting management, Payment services, Customer care and other operations with higher efficiency. This is only possible since identification is becoming secure and faster through the Bio-Scanners. . I am a representative of an established, biometric software development firm named M2SYS Technology based in Atlanta Georgia. We have provided our Fingerprint Scanner to many
Schools starting from medium to large across various countries, who are now making a very fast and reliable student record service through integrating our secured fingerprint identification system in their software. We also offer several off-the-shelf fingerprints software products that are distributed to the end user market through our expanding list of channel partners. I believe to keep up with speed of service fingerprint scanners are one of the best solutions.