NCAA Division I program
Eliminated ID cards across athletic facilities with credential-free facial authentication — cloud deployment enabled a rapid rollout for athletes, coaches, and high-profile staff.
Education
Campus Access Control Students Can Say Yes To
From residence halls to research labs, opt-in facial authentication built for student privacy and campus scale.
Opt-in enrollment · Badge fallback stays · Works with Genetec, LenelS2, C•CURE, and Genea
The Problem
Where badge-only access breaks down.
Residence halls run on borrowed badges
Dorms are where cards get shared most and where parents ask the hardest questions. A propped door or passed badge makes the access log fiction exactly where safety matters most.
Meal-plan sharing at the dining hall
Peak lunch moves thousands of students in minutes, and every shared card is revenue walking in the door. Enforcement can't come at the cost of the line.
Labs with grant conditions attached
Export-control rules and research sponsors increasingly ask who, exactly, entered a space. A card event can't answer; a verified person can.
Legacy biometrics that aged out
Fingerprint readers at athletic facilities and data centers fail under real traffic, and every failure becomes a propped door or a queue.
Student privacy is the deciding vote
Student senates, counsel, and privacy officers will scrutinize any biometric project. Technology that can't demonstrate opt-in consent and data minimization arrives pre-opposed.
The Solution
Rock X and the Alcatraz Platform, mapped to your doors.
Facial authentication at the edge, tailgating detection, and enrollment with recorded consent — delivered through the access control system you already run.
Opt-in, revocable, auditable consent
Students enroll from a phone in about a minute; consent is recorded in the Alcatraz Platform and revoking it deletes the template immediately. Nobody who doesn't opt in is ever matched.
Throughput for the dining rush
Face-first entry clears the line faster than any card tap, and the person on the meal plan is the person walking in.
MFA for labs and campus data centers
Face-plus-badge two-factor with tailgating detection protects research space and critical infrastructure — with mobile self-enrollment for rotating research teams.
Yours, visibly
Rock X can be customized with campus colors and crest — a reader that reads as part of the university, not a surveillance install.
Works with the card system you have
Standard Wiegand/OSDP integration with Genetec, LenelS2, Software House C•CURE, and Genea — the campus card keeps working as the universal fallback.
In Production
Already running at doors like yours.
5M+ employees protected and a 95% customer satisfaction rating, as of the April 2026 Series B announcement.
Large public research university
Deployed across labs, athletics, and administrative areas, replacing legacy biometric systems campus-wide with touchless, zero-trust access.
Top technology university
Adopted facial authentication at mission-critical campus data center entry points — enhanced two-factor, mobile self-enrollment, and tailgating detection for sensitive research environments.
Compliance
FERPA-aligned
SOC 2
GDPR
BIPA
CCPA
How It Works
From badge read to face-first in three steps.
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Enroll
People opt in from a phone or laptop in about a minute. Consent is recorded, auditable, and revocable in the Alcatraz Platform.
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Authenticate
A 3D, liveness-checked facial authentication happens at the edge — on the device — in under a second. Nothing to find, share, or clone.
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Integrate
Rock X presents to your access control system as a standard reader over Wiegand or OSDP. Panels, policies, and badge fallback stay put.
FAQ
The questions your review will ask.
Is this facial recognition on campus?
No. Facial recognition identifies strangers in crowds without their participation. This is facial authentication: an opt-in, one-to-one check that an enrolled student is who they claim to be at a specific door. Students who never enroll are never matched against anything — they keep using their campus card.
How do students enroll and un-enroll?
Enrollment is a self-guided scan from a phone or laptop that takes about a minute, with consent recorded up front. Revoking is just as easy and triggers immediate deletion of the biometric template — the badge keeps working throughout. Consent records stay auditable in the Alcatraz Platform.
Does it align with FERPA?
FERPA governs education records rather than biometrics directly, but the same properties that satisfy biometric statutes — informed opt-in consent, minimal collection, deletion on request, auditable access records — give counsel a straightforward story under FERPA-adjacent review. Full data-flow documentation is provided for that review.
Can it handle the dining-hall rush?
Yes. Authentication happens at walking pace in under a second per student, which clears peak lines faster than card taps — and ends meal-plan sharing, because the person on the plan is the person entering. Dining is one of the highest-ROI first deployments on a campus.
What about residence hall safety?
Verified, opt-in entry means the residence hall log shows people, not borrowed cards, and tailgating detection flags followers at the door in real time. Guests still come through front-desk policy. It answers the question parents actually ask: who can get into the building?
Will it work with our campus card system?
Yes. Rock X presents as a standard reader over Wiegand or OSDP to Genetec, LenelS2, Software House C•CURE, and Genea, so the campus one-card program, door schedules, and policies continue unchanged. Facial authentication layers on top; the card remains the universal fallback.
See it at your door.
A 30-minute working session with an access control engineer — bring your doors, your ACS, and your questions.