Campus Access Management & ID
The identity backbone of the connected campus: one credential, provisioned instantly, accepted everywhere.
From the residence hall door to the dining register, one credential powers it all. Illumia's Campus Access Management and ID solutions connect who your students are to everything they need, securely, seamlessly, and at scale. Your campus transaction system, mobile credentials, access control, stored value and meal plan accounts all share the same identity foundation.
That foundation means a credential issued on day one of orientation works instantly across every touchpoint a student encounters that semester — no waiting on separate provisioning for the library turnstile, the vending machine, or the parking gate. When a student loses a phone or a card, revocation and reissue happen once, centrally, and every downstream system inherits the change immediately. IT teams manage one identity record instead of reconciling five siloed ones, and campus safety teams get a single source of truth for who's supposed to be where.
Campus Card Platforms
IDX [Cloud]
Our cloud-native campus ID and credential management platform. IDX connects identity data in real time to access control, commerce, and dining systems across campus. Core of Illumia's modern security and commerce integration strategy for higher education.
CS Gold 9
The industry-leading on-premises campus card management system. Supports patron management, transactions, credentials, access assignments, and reporting. Fully supported with active development and no end-of-life date. Includes Ask CS Gold, the first AI-powered natural language reporting tool in the campus card industry: administrators query their data in plain English, with no SQL required.
TSE (Transaction System Enterprise)
An on-premises transaction processing solution connecting campus systems for cashless payments, door access, and account management. Designed for institutions that need deep on-premises integration with existing infrastructure.
Credentials & Identity
Mobile Credentials
Your campus ID, now on a smartphone. Compatible with 82+ certified devices across 16 hardware manufacturers, including Apple, Samsung, and Google Wallet. Works with HID, ASSA ABLOY, and Allegion ecosystems. Remote issuance lets you provision, update, or revoke credentials in real time, without a card office visit.
Physical ID Cards
Card production solutions for every campus. We support Entrust Instant ID, Vision Database Systems IDMS, and Elite ID, with compatible printers and full production workflow support.
Online Photo Submission
Let students upload their own ID photo before they arrive on campus. Self-service photo submission reduces card office traffic, speeds up production, and gets credentials into students' hands faster.
Biometrics
For high-security facilities that need more than a credential tap. Illumia integrates with Idemia (morpho) and Alcatraz for facial recognition and fingerprint authentication, adding a verification layer for sensitive areas.
Accounts, Access, & Campus Services
eAccounts
The student's campus wallet. eAccounts manages stored value, declining balance, and meal plan accounts, funding dining, retail, laundry, vending, and off-campus purchases. Students manage their accounts from their phone. Your team gets full visibility and control.
Off Campus Program
Extend your campus credential to approved local merchants. Deepen student engagement beyond campus boundaries and create a new revenue stream through interchange and transaction fees.
Attendance and Events
Credential-based attendance tracking and event access management. Students check in with their campus ID or mobile credential. You verify eligibility, collect attendance data, and control access to buildings, classrooms, labs, and events from one system.
Laundry, Vending, and Print
Extend your campus card to laundry machines, vending networks, and print stations. Students pay with stored value or mobile credential, and your team gets integrated reporting across all transactions.
Door Access & Security
IDX Access / ACI
The Access Control Integration layer connecting Illumia ID platforms to eight certified third-party access control partners, including Genea, Lenel S2, S2 NetBox, and CS Access. Transmit cardholders, credentials, photos, and access assignments in real time.
Avail [Cloud] and CS Access [On-Premises]
Purpose-built campus door access control. Avail is cloud-hosted with no gateway required, featuring housing access automation, room reservations, MasterKey, self-service lockouts, Access Monitor, and AI reporting via Ask CS Gold. CS Access is the on-premises version for institutions that need local deployment.
Genea and Lenel S2 (Partners)
Certified access control partners that integrate directly with TSE and IDX. Genea is cloud-native with no gateway required, ideal for institutions migrating from TSE door access. Lenel S2 is a long-time trusted partner for enterprise access control environments.
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