CIPURSE electronic ticket solutions simplify daily commute in Russian cities
Scalable CIPURSE™ based electronic fare collection systems are now being implemented in Russia by Infineon Technologies AG and Udobny Marshrut, LLC (UM). UM has started roll-out in Izhevsk and Angarsk; seven other metropolitan regions are planned to follow by end of 2016. In the end, a total of two million people are expected to benefit…
Infineon CIPURSE ticketing solution enables HMS Ferries to realize electronic ticketing
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…
Korean airports upgrade access control with CIPURSE based security
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…
Barcelona’s T-Mobilitat premiers the CIPURSE standard in Europe
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…
Open Standards, CIPURSE and the Infineon perspective
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 extends portfolio of CIPURSE™security solutions
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 product…
Infineon wins award for first security chip compliant to CIPURSE™ standard
Infineon Technologies AG has been awarded the chip card industry’s prestigious Sesames Award 2012 for the most innovative product in the category Transportation. The SOLID FLASH™-based SLS 32TLC security controller from Infineon is the industry’s first solution that supports conventional public transportation implementations as well as CIPURSE™, the newly defined open standard for the transport…