Students in schools and colleges will soon be able to pay for meals using ‘cutting-edge technology’ that scans a fingerprint through the air.
Civica Cashless avoids the need for students to carry money in school and supports healthier eating by giving students and parents better visibility of their food choices.
Bill Loughery, executive director at Civica, said: “With safety and hygiene high on the agenda in the wake of the pandemic, contact-free fingerprint identification offers - above all - peace of mind for schools, students and their parents. Combining innovative contactless fingerprint scanning technology with our leading cashless payment solution, we’re helping to make school mealtimes safer, faster and more secure than ever before.
“But innovation doesn’t stop at the cafeteria; contact-free technology can be used far more widely across schools and we’ll be exploring how it can be adapted to our wider suite of software, which is used in more than 14,000 environments across our education system.”