Summary
Although contactless technology is interesting for commerce applications the real home run is in addressing security problems on the school campus. Education security firms will use contactless card reader technologies to secure the school campus in a seamless and virtually invisible manner. The notion of perimeter detection and network security layers will migrate from the protection of payment transactions and email inboxes to the protection of individuals, the classroom and the campus workplace. The notion of "big brother" will become more accepted and adopted as a benefit as it is redefined from being intrusive to inclusive in the fabric of safe relationships and human interactions.
Analysis
The security of children and youth is of primary concern for society at large. This concern also extends into the workplace for adults in the classroom. The use of contactless technology for positive identification and access control will set a new standard for addressing security concerns.
Contactless card technology can identify and authenticate a transaction or an individual in .1 second. This creates an ability to seamlessly and almost invisibly positively identify many individuals as they enter controlled access areas like school campuses, classrooms and school workplaces.
The notion of setting up perimeter detection for email is highly useful when coupled with contactless card technology that is embedded in student ID cards, teacher ID cards or cell phones for secure identification of students, teachers and visitors as they enter or leave the school campus. Security can be layered across the campus in similar fashion as security within a computer network is layered.
Contactless technology can become a significant catalyst to a society that "opts-in" to electronic capabilities that proactively use dynamic mutual authentication to secure children, students and teachers. Intrusion detection, access control and user management from software companies like MicroTrend, Symantec, CA, Novell and others has much broader implications than simply securing payment transactions when combined with contactless technolgy from Sony, Blackboard and others.
