Transit
Public transport schemes in cities across the world have implemented contactless smart cards to replace cash and enhance efficiency. With the advent of powerful dual interface micro-processor cards, the opportunity has arisen to combine financial, identity and transit applications on a single secure platform, or even to accept contactless payments in the mass transit infrastructure.
Dual interface MULTOS smart cards combine the benefits and features of a traditional ISO 7816 contact interface with the latest ISO 14443 and MIFARE contactless technology. This allows financial and citizen card issuers to combine Financial, Identity and Transport applications onto a single smart card, without the need to establish trust with the other application providers - enabling value added services and cost savings to both parties to create a win win scenario.
Mifare
MIFARE has been used in many transport systems today and now is available on MULTOS combined with ISO 14443 Type A and/or B. From low end (8K~12K) to high end (32K~36K) memory and from multiple sources including Keycorp MULTOS on Infineon and NXP silicon.
New form factors
Contactless MULTOS chips can be embedded into a variety of new form factors: keyfobs, watches, USB keys, or mobile handsets supporting ISO 14443 or NFC (Near Field Communications) interfaces.
Paypass transit
Instead of implementing a closed transit acceptance infrastructure, why not leverage the global acceptance network of the payment schemes and the international standards of EMV and Paypass? By issuing MasterCard PayPass cards, using a contactless EMV application configured for Pre-Authorised Debit payments on dual interface MULTOS chips, issuers can deploy a globally accepted payment card, that can also be used in the transit network. Learn how Kaohsiung City Government of Taiwan was the first transit authority in the world to realise this vision thanks to MULTOS. And now you can even put Paypass MULTOS in your watch!
