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Passengers taking the Pierce County Ferry in Washington State are not only traversing the lower Puget Sound conveniently, they are also the first in the U.S. to enjoy fully electronic ticketing based on the CIPURSE™ open standard for electronic fare collection. The operator, HMS Ferries, Inc., now enables customers to purchase QR-code tickets on their…
OT (Oberthur Technologies), has announces that its embedded Secure Element, PEARL by OT®, is the first eSE worldwide to be certified by Visa, MasterCard and Amex for biometric-compliant payment applets (VISA VMPA v1.4, MasterCard MCM v1.1 and AMEX v2.0), as well as by OSPT Alliance (CIPURSE™ V2) for urban transport applications and value added services.…
Korea Airports Corporation (KAC) have recently implemented a new solution to strengthen its airport access control systems for its personnel based on the CIPURSE™ security standard. Infineon Technologies AG supplied the security chips for the electronic access control cards handed out to the staff. The new system is already in use in three of the 14…
This interview first appeared in the May 2016 Issue of the Open Standards Forum Magazine Barcelona may only be Spain’s second largest urban area but, according to Juniper Research, it is the country’s smartest city. Smart is, for one, the new “T-Mobilitat” electronic fare collection system, designed to improve urban mobility. The aim is to…
Filmed at the 2015 Contactless Intelligence Conference, Infineon's Bjorn Scharfen spoke on the topic of Open Standards in the contactless industry, especially when speaking about transport projects. Bjorn talked us through CIPURSE and its role in creating an interoperable open standard that can help transport operators who are looking to upgrade their systems. It may…
Infineon Technologies AG has announced that it has extended its offering of CIPURSE™- compliant security chips for contactless transport ticketing, micro-payment, authentication and access solutions. Infineon is now the world’s first supplier of a complete CIPURSE portfolio enabling the transportation industry to quickly install particularly secure, interoperable and cost efficient ticketing solutions. The new products…