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Contactless card technology is nowadays commonly used in ticketing initiatives around the world. Clearly, it’s a convenient, portable and secure means of payment: fraud levels are lowered, queues at entry gates are reduced, cash handling is limited and staff intervention is minimal.
Although contactless technology succesfully addresses these issues, integrating a scheme requires specialist skills. Where contactless (Rfid, MiFare, Felica, NFC,…) or contact technology is involved, Integri is available to support with appropriate knowledge and tools ensuring an effortless integration of the processes and technology. Our company is implicated in several international projects writing specifications, providing esting solutions, certification services and business rules. Our involvement can encompass the cards and terminals of your project but also the writing or modifying of the specifications of your Front and Back Office.
and find out how we can tackle your specific requirements! Some referencesITSO (UK)ITSO is the British governmental transport organization responsible for the UK’s interoperable contactless Smartcard ticketing system for public bus and rail transport. The non-profit, membership association was founded in 1998 and is an Integri business partner since 2001. Integri has worked closely with ITSO and delivered expert services during the specification phase describing the different components of the system: contactless cards, the various terminal types, back-office systems for clearing and settlement and security. Integri was also involved in the definition of the certification strategy of these components. Today, ITSO outsources several services to Integri: - Managed certification for the third party vendor products in Integri’s in-house certification laboratory
- Regular reviews of the ITSO specifications and advising role in view of updates
- Support to third party vendors when implementing their products
- Expert support during technical steering committees
- Support during proof-of-concepts, evaluation of new technologies.
- Integri assisted with ITSO’s NFC project using a mobile phone to pay for fares
- Interoperability tests for the Calypso transport scheme
Martyn Roper, Head of Operations and Registrar at ITSO comments: “ When it comes to mass transport payment, speed and quality are essential. With Integri running a complete in-house certification test lab on our behalf, we not only gain time but also bring quality to the equipment suppliers. Integri’s experienced team of testers and consultants ensures the quality of our business.” Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (Switzerland)In 2002 Integri won a major contract at Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB), covering the creation of a smartcard ticketing system for the Swiss public transport. The project was called Easyticket and is a part of th Easyride program.
Integri delivered expertise and software to perform a laboratory pilot allowing a methodical test of each single component of the Easyticket payment scheme. The main activities:
- Description of the laboratory architecture, the software validation process and the functional specifications of the laboratory environment
- Description of the different use cases for the pilot
- Implementation of the different tools: contact and contactless card simulator, card test tool, SAM (Secure Access Module) simulator, SAM test tool, terminal simulator, Middleware simulator and the automated environment to perform the use cases on different simulators.
- Coordination of the integration of the multi-source cards and terminals within the laboratory environment
- Definition of the test scenarios for the Easyticket cards and terminals
- Technical support to SBB during analysis of the test results
After the successful pilot Integri expanded this environment and enabled certification of the third party Easyticket products. Additionally, Integri was instrumental during the setup of an SBB certification laboratory and the definition of the certification processes. Bernard Laroche, EasyTicket Technical Laboratory Project Leader said: “ For the acceptance and integration testing of the EasyTicket applications we have chosen the INQ test system and called upon the services of Integri to have a complete and performant test environment.” EasyCard public transport (Taiwan)The EasyCard Corporation consists of a number of corporations including the government, banks, consultancy firms, transport companies among others. With the EasyCard, citizens of Taipei can simply “touch and go” to access the public transport. Taipei citizens are now offered a convenient contactless ticketing system for busses, metro and public off-road cars. It is the first intelligent payment system in Taiwan and its tested with Integri technology.
Integri is convinced that contactless technology is on the edge of massive adoption and is therefore offering the expert knowledge and technology to create smart and trusted ticketing schemes.
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