Contactless fingerprint scanners developed by Safran have been installed in the University of Maryland.The MorphoWave terminals have been deployed at campus dining halls to keep better track of student accounts.The terminals read all four fingerprints of the hand as it is passed through the read area.Student newspaper the Diamonback reported that enrolment was easy after a learning curve process.”I think it went extremely well,” Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said. “There was a little bit of trial and error at the very first, but we figured out ways to keep the lines short and the process very quick and very simple.”Dining Services worked with the orientation office to fit the process into orientation schedules. In order to register, students swiped their right hand through the scanner twice and then did the same with their left hand, Hipple said.”It ended up going smoothly after we got it right because the first couple of times we tried to get all the students in the diner to line up,” said Matthew Huldisch, an orientation advisor this summer. “But the line would be far back.”The incoming freshmen in his orientation groups didn't have many questions about the new system, but that was likely because they don't have to transition to a new system, said Huldisch, a senior government and politics and history major.

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