CARMEL, IND. - January 15,
2008 - Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that the company
has become the preferred access control and security provider for CardSmith,
which supplies colleges and universities with complete one-card transaction
management solutions. CardSmith not only supplies campuses with card system
technology for a host of on- and off-campus applications but also manages the
complexities of the resulting card system and program operations. To complement
its card-based service suite, colleges and universities can now obtain Schlage
access control solutions through CardSmith.
"Over the past four
years, we've developed a working relationship with Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies
and helped implement many Schlage access control and security solutions for
colleges and universities in tandem with our own card transaction processing
solutions," emphasizes Jay Summerall, founder and president of CardSmith.
"Our customers really appreciate knowing that they can come to us and get
all of their one-card applications, from meal programs and library check-out
to door access at residence halls, laboratories and elsewhere across campus."
Summerall adds, "Just
as we provide a complete card transaction processing solution, so does the Schlage
security system. Campuses can create any combination of offline, online and/or
wireless access control. As a result, our customers are now receiving the best
of both worlds in both card-based transaction processing and security, all accessed
by a single campus ID card."
"We're very pleased
to be working closely with CardSmith," reports Beverly Vigue, Ingersoll
Rand Security Technologies vice-president, education solutions. "This relationship
will be very beneficial to colleges and universities who can now get a single
one-stop solution for all of their card applications. By working together, we
can assure our mutual clients are getting card solutions created with the entire
campus in mind."
About CardSmith
CardSmith provides a complete transaction processing solution integrated with
the most comprehensive management and operations support services in the industry.
CardSmith's national campus card processing center integrates easily with on-site
card production systems and drives virtually any card application on or off-campus,
including dining, bookstore, mobile POS, retail, vending, laundry, print/copy,
verification and more. The program and campus community are supported 24/7 by
an On-line Cardholder Account Center with Value Transfer and by the market's
only professional cardholder call center and merchant help desk.