A Preliminary Probe into the Construction of the Information Campus Card on the Pedestrian University Campus Card
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In recent years, more and more colleges and universities have begun to build a campus card system to replace a wide variety of cards on campus. During this process, various questions about the construction of the campus one-card card also came up. How is the system architecture established? Where is the foothold? What is the best way to organize and manage?
Renmin University of China is not the first university in China to build a campus card system, but a series of figures show that the campus card of Renmin University has embarked on a unique road to campus card construction. At the recent Suzhou Contactless Smart Card and City Pass Application Summit Forum, the relevant person in charge of the National People’s Congress Card Center analyzed the experience and experience of the National People’s Congress in building campus cards to the participants.
24 days to build the first campus card system using contactless smart cards in China
The RUC campus card was officially completed and planned in 2003. In March 2004, the Office of the President of the National People’s Congress officially passed the implementation. In August 2004, the National People’s Congress completed the construction of the overall system architecture in just 24 days, ushering in a new school year.
Although the speed of construction and implementation of the National People’s University campus card is rare among colleges and universities across the country, there are years of systematic planning, demonstration and market research behind this. It is the long-term careful thinking and planning that makes the university campus card particularly stable and solid from the beginning, and also has the subsequent high-speed construction and efficient operation.
The first special feature of the RUC campus card is that the RUC campus card is the first university campus card system in China to use contactless smart cards (CPU cards). In the process of card selection, the National People’s Congress selected the contactless smart cards provided by 4 card suppliers including the world’s top five smart card suppliers – Watchdata. Compared with the logic encryption cards used in many campus card systems, smart cards have high security, high application carrying capacity, high scalability, and high computing power. Now it seems that the card selection has laid a solid foundation for the rapid development of the NPC campus card.
The second special feature of the RUC campus card is that, compared with the financial management direction of many campus card systems, which focuses on consumption, the RUC campus card focuses on information management in financial management. So the campus card of the National People’s University has a unique name: Integrated Information ID Card. This card has the student’s photo and the student’s personal information written on the card. The card has borrowed a lot of technology from the second-generation ID card and the city card system. The mature technology and the adoption of national unified standards have enabled the campus card of the National People’s University to have rich resources and experience to protect it from the beginning.
The third special feature of the RUC campus card is that it has chosen to work closely with the banking system. Card loading adopts a single method of bank system transfer. In this way, the bank will provide transaction data to the campus card back-end system for settlement every day, and students and faculty members who hold the card can enjoy the convenience of 24-hour recharge.
4-person card center A stable and efficient campus information system
Under the meticulous and complete planning, the campus card of the National People’s University is now running with amazing efficiency and stability. According to the relevant person in charge of the campus card center of Renmin University of China, the number of transactions per day in the campus card system of Renmin University of China is in the order of hundreds of thousands, which is comparable to the level of a single bank system in Haidian District off-campus. When the school starts every year, the system can complete the registration of up to 20,000 students in one day, and can collect and register information for 2,700 students per hour on average, and cards can be issued to students within 24 hours. . Compared with the card centers with dozens or even more people in many colleges and universities, there are only 4 people in the card center on the campus of the National People’s University.
The reason for this amazing efficiency is that the campus card of the National People’s University adopts a highly automated operation system. The recharge of the campus card can be completed at the bank and the self-service terminal set up by the bank on the campus. All operations such as campus card inquiry and loss reporting are also completed by self-service terminals. In China, many campus cards choose to recharge in cash, and the recharge time is quite concentrated, which makes the card center responsible for managing these campus card systems spend almost 60% of the work on card recharge and loss reporting.
The more mysterious part of this highly automated system lies in its forward-looking information management architecture design. Under the general idea that the campus card system of Renmin University of China should realize information management and even information mining and realize information decision-making, the management and use of information by the campus card of Renmin University of China has reached a new level of domestic campus cards. The person in charge gave an example: “How do we decide whether to rebuild or expand the library? The library’s borrowing data and access control data are the important decision-making basis.”
Under such requirements, the system for mining and managing huge data and information must be able to ensure efficient and stable operation. The RUC campus card system can realize intelligent operation. For the key core modules that must ensure non-stop operation, there are highly intelligent monitoring and diagnosis programs to assist, and complete security and redundancy mechanisms to ensure.
One-card travel and multi-card parallel new ideas to create a vibrant campus
Now, under this efficient system, the campus card of the National People’s University is vigorously contributing to the electronic school affairs of the National People’s University. The National People’s University campus card system, which is composed of many systems such as meal management, telephone billing, access control management, book borrowing, financial charges, attendance and attendance, network billing, medical charges, digital people’s congress, bank transfer, electronic reading, and meeting sign-in, has truly been realized. “One-card travel to campus”.
Here, one of the sources of vitality of the National People’s University campus card – eclectic – cannot but be mentioned. The campus card system of the National People’s Congress with dual interface CPU cards and pure contactless CPU cards as the main body is compatible with PKI cards, single and dual interface CPU cards, logic encryption cards, and photoelectric cards, which are rarely seen in other campus card systems. The relevant person in charge of the National People’s Congress Card Center explained that the realization of such a card pattern is mainly due to the actual situation in various applications. For example, off-campus personnel can use a paper photoelectric card when dining in the on-campus cafeteria. Another example is that the family members of teachers and staff are fetching water in the water room to take a bath. They can also use the logic encryption card instead of the regular card issuance. PKI cards provide additional security policy guarantees to senior school leaders. This is also one of the main manifestations of the construction idea of ”the overall project is forward-looking and realistic, complete and effective, and has achieved harmony and moderation”.
The relevant person in charge of the National People’s Congress Card Center mentioned five points when summarizing their experience: first, strictly follow various national norms and standards; second, unified planning, step-by-step implementation, and focus on practical results; third, establish operational awareness and improve the degree of system automation 4. Integrate multiple systems to coexist to create a harmonious project; 5. Establish a corresponding management system to adapt to the development of informatization.
With its strategic forward-looking planning and unique ideas, the RUC campus card has become one of the models of domestic campus cards, providing us with valuable ideas. Of course, facing the future, the campus card still has a long way to go. How will the campus card system develop in the future? How to realize the docking and integration with the urban information system, and even cross-regional application? It is believed that in the near future, these problems will be solved one by one, and we will also see the real integration of digital campus and information society.
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