{"id":93,"date":"2010-08-03T16:29:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T20:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2024-12-18T03:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T08:01:12","slug":"biometric-solutions-for-school-lunch-line-point-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/others\/biometric-solutions-for-school-lunch-line-point-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Biometric Solutions For School Lunch Line Point Of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Lunch Lines They Are A Changing <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Modern day lunch line point of sale (POS) software requirements must transcend the ability to just ring up a sale and generate a receipt.\u00a0 There are a host of areas that school food service POS technology must address ranging from quick and accurate check outs to the security of students necessitating a flexible and agile POS system that interfaces easily with back end accounting and inventory systems.\u00a0 Many schools adopt PIN pad entry or barcode scanning systems but later find that students often forget their PIN #\u2019s or leave their ID cards at home causing logjams in the lunch line, frustrated staff and embarrassed students.\u00a0 Worse still, bullies can steal the PIN # or ID card of another student and use it fraudulently to pay for their own meals.\u00a0 The question becomes, how do you implement a lunch line POS software system that assures smooth transactions and lunch line flow but at the same time keeps student safety, security and accountability paramount?\u00a0 Many schools are turning to affordable and safe biometric fingerprint recognition<\/a><\/strong> solutions as the answer.<\/p>\n

Biometric POS Software Systems<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The fast paced world of today\u2019s lunch line POS environments demands user-friendly software that can handle transactions with speed and accuracy to maximize profits without sacrificing precision or security.\u00a0 A biometric POS software system<\/a><\/strong> eliminates the need for students to remember a PIN code or use a barcode ID when they get to the register.\u00a0 The student simply scans their finger on the biometric hardware and immediately their identity is established and transaction recorded.\u00a0 The process is fast, safe, reliable and accurate.\u00a0 It maintains the flow of the line allowing students who sometimes only have 20 minutes or less for their lunch period to get in and get out as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

More Schools Adopting Biometric Technology<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

More and schools are turning to affordable biometric POS systems as a trusted component of their cafeteria management software technology to incorporate secure systems that hedge against losses by boosting the accuracy and security of transactions.\u00a0 Fingerprint recognition<\/a><\/strong> has become the mainstream biometric modality of many lunch line POS systems but as biometric technological advances have evolved, more schools are choosing advanced biometric technology such as fingervein<\/a><\/strong>, palm vein<\/a><\/strong> and iris recognition<\/a><\/strong> as their modality of choice due to the inherent benefits that are included in these hardware modalities such as lower False Acceptance Rates<\/a><\/strong> and a more hygienic scanning environment.<\/p>\n

Privacy Concerns<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are many rumors<\/strong> virally circulating about biometrics and its privacy implications for children.\u00a0 Some fear that if a hacker breaks into the school computer system and steals a biometric template, the damage is irreversible and not able to be corrected.\u00a0 Others say that once a biometric template is established for a child, it gives free reign for any governmental agency to lawfully access that template to create a national registry of biometric identification information.\u00a0 The truth of the matter is that biometric enrollment templates stored on a server are not actually an image of the fingerprint at all.\u00a0 They are a mathematical representation of the data points that a biometric algorithm extracts from the scanned fingerprint.\u00a0\u00a0 The algorithm then uses the template to positively identify a child during subsequent fingerprint scans.\u00a0 No image of the fingerprint is ever stored or transmitted across a network.\u00a0 In addition, the algorithm is \u201cone way\u201d which means that the template that is extracted is nearly impossible to be used to recreate the original fingerprint image.\u00a0 In other words, it is nearly impossible to reverse engineer the data that is sent to positively identify a child and successfully \u201csteal\u201d their biometric identity.<\/p>\n