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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…
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…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IopLO7JLcsk Filmed at CARTES 2013, Samsung's Semiconductor's Jörg Suchy talks us through the the latest developments in the OSPT Alliance's CIPURSE. Also, fresh from the OSPT Workshop, held at the same event, we hear from other members of the OSPT Alliance, including Infineon Technologies, Oberthur and Giesecke and Devrient on the latest developments concerning CIPURSE…
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…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZRUcz_J5R4&feature=player_embedded Mass transit system operators are witnessing a paradigm shift in automated fare collection (AFC) technology. These changes include outsourcing of AFC program operations and real-time acceptance of third-party issued cards - changes that are likely to reshape the way that AFC is viewed by the industry for decades. As a result transit agencies are…