Bringing together companies who power secure identification to promote the use of hardware-based security.
By Luiz Guimaraes, Latin American Sub-Working Group Chair at OSPT Alliance. Governments and associated bodies are required to make a whole host of ID solutions. Driver’s licences, transport cards, employee access control, health services, library cards – the list goes on. Not to mention the increasing desire for multi-application solutions, combining two or more of…
Myung-Hwa Calais, Director of Transport Unit at FIME. Account-based ticketing, or ABT, is high on the transport industry’s agenda. It offers travelers choice and flexibility in the fare media they use – whether that be a smartphone, wearable, smartcard, a bank card… or a combination. Plus, with data hosted remotely, operators can realize several operational…
OSPT Alliance, the global community enabling the future of mobility services, today announced it has welcomed Brazilian semiconductor company, CEITEC, as a Full Member. With deployments of OSPT Alliance’s CIPURSE™ Specification rising across Latin America, CEITEC will offer invaluable on-the-ground support as the first chip-manufacturer in the region to join the organization. Government-owned, CEITEC…
By Philippe Martineau, OSPT Alliance President of the Board. With the world’s largest public transport gathering, Transport Ticketing Global, over for another year and our feet firmly in 2019, it seems apt to reflect on the changing global vision set at this year’s event for the future of public transport. Or perhaps more accurately, its…
Austria Card and Infineon Technologies are the latest companies to have products receive CIPURSE Certification, demonstrating adherence to the non-proprietary, CIPURSE™ Specification from global association, OSPT Alliance. A total of 20 products from eight companies worldwide are now CIPURSE certified. The CIPURSE certification program provides mobility services stakeholders with confidence that the products they choose…
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…