The New Cloud One Card Solution

University of Arizona & ScreenCheck present at NACCU 2019

Stephanie Perez

CatCard Services, University of Arizona

Stephanie Perez is the Assistant Director of the CatCard Services Unit in the Financial Services Office at The University of Arizona. She has worked at The University of Arizona for 20 years, 12 of which she has dedicated to the CatCard ID office. Throughout her tenure she has been influential in developing and evolving the program to a secure, biometric, encrypted EV1 smart chip technology card to access all services on campus.

Frank Romeijn

Sales Director, ScreenCheck

Frank Romeijn is Sales Director for ScreenCheck and has been with the company for over ten years. He is responsible for global sales and product development. ScreenCheck is specialized in developing and implementing ID solutions in Education, Care and Government, helping customers implement the latest features and technologies. Operations are concentrated in North America and Europe.

Education Sessions Block 5
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
11:00AM – 12:00PM
Room 11

Core Competencies: Administration & Operations Planning | Technology

Level: Intermediate | Advanced

The New Cloud One Card Solution!

Let’s explore experiences from the implementation of a new cloud-based ID management software called CardsOnline. The University of Arizona is unique in that the technology is the DESfire EV1 smart chip platform and the school owns its own smart chip keys. This session will include an overview of steps from functional design to daily card production. In addition, it will include distributing data campus wide to access services.

Naccu UofA project sheet CardsOnline
Project sheet

The University of Arizona

Deploys CardsOnline for card design, new card issuance production &
card management in the cloud

The University of Arizona

  • University of Arizona, established in 1885
  • The first graduating class in 1895 consisted of two women and one male.
  • Recognized as a global leader, the UofA is also a leader in research, bringing more than $684 million in research investment each year
  • Ranking in the top 25 among all public universities
  • The UofA is advancing the frontiers of interdisciplinary scholarship and entrepreneurial partnerships and is a member of the Association of American Universities, the 62 leading public and private research universities.

The University of Arizona (UofA), established in 1885, is the state’s land-grant university with two medical schools and ranks in the top 25 among all public universities in the United States. The UofA is advancing in the frontiers of interdisciplinary scholarship and entrepreneurial partnerships. In addition, the UofA is a member of the Association of American Universities, which includes 62 leading public and private research universities.

Always exploring new approaches, the UofA was ready in 2018 to update their card management system. Presently setup with a smart card system that interacts with several legacy systems, the UofA found CardsOnline the best fit as the replacement of their former card management system.

CardsOnline creates one central, full integrated system for card production which includes capture of photos and signatures, printing, smart chip encoding and issuing multi-purpose ID smartcards, offering full card control in one system.

The Challenge

Having an elaborate system with a smart card in place the UofA is searching for a state-of-the-art software that will make the complete card life process more efficient with an online system. This requires a proven application that encompasses all the requirements and more.

The card management system had to be able to create various applications on the DESFire EV1 card and encode all specific data for these applications during the inline encode and print process. After encoding/printing all systems must be updated reflecting the new card with its encoded identifiers, linked to the cardholder.

CardsOnline fulfilled all the requirements and more: full integration with UofA systems and with CatCard applications for access control, payments, library, rec center, parking & transportation and E-ticketing services. CardsOnline proves to be the real one-card-solution in the Cloud!

The Solution

ScreenCheck implemented CardsOnline connecting with the Active Directory and the EDS system. The EDS system is a hosted data platform holding all relevant source and client application data. We integrated with the EDS and the Active Directory via LDAP. CardsOnline Data Agents connect with an SQL table to exchange data.

ScreenCheck provides the SAAS service hosted on Microsoft Azure in a US datacentre.
CardsOnline enables card holders to login on any mobile device and upload a new photo using Service Portal. Service Portal also offers a special feature to upload a copy of a Persons ID. The Persons ID is used to verify the uploaded photo. After processing the photo, the copy of the Persons ID will be deleted.

The CatCard is the official University of Arizona identification card. The card features a digitized photo, digitized signature, Contactless DESFire EV1 8K SmartChip, ISO number, and magnetic stripe. CardsOnline encodes and prints all required data on the smart card by utilizing both 3DES and AES encryption. In total the CatCard operates 9 different connected systems.

Project details

Software: CardsOnline
Server: Cent OS Linux distribution, PHP/MYSQL/APACHE

Card Printer: Zebra ZXP9 printers with
MIFARE DESFire & MAGstripe encoder

Card Type: MIFARE DESFire EV1 8k card, offset
Card Amount: Approximately 67.000 Cards

Note: Each CatCard contains a unique 16 digit ISO number

CatCard University of Arizona
44831
Student population
15623
Personnel
67000
Number of cards
9
Connected systems
One Card Solution CardsOnline at UofA Naccu

Connected systems

  • Bursar Account authorization
  • Campus Recreation Center Access
  • Parking & Transportation Services
  • Identification and Status Verification
  • UofA Athletics ZonaZoo Pass verification
  • Library Privileges
  • Building Access
  • Meal Plans
  • CatCash