Archive for the ‘ contactless payment ’ Category
Mifare emulation has been around for some years. Mifare emulation simply refers to an application running on a chip card operating system. The application emulates the native mifare chip and responds the mifare readers as if it is a mifare chip. Of course there are some considerations when implementing a mifare emulation. First of all, [ READ MORE ]
In my perspective, NFC was the rising star of the Mobile World Congress 2010. In the first day of the event, the agenda of the session was mobile money. A balanced selection of speakers from carriers to technology companies provided a mind opening content. The first outcome of the day for me [ READ MORE ]
ACS announced its new dual interface smart card ACOS7. ACS is a Hong Kong based company working on smart cards and readers. Their product portfolio is quite strong, they almost have everything that you can imagine. I especially love the card readers of ACS. ACOS7 seems an addition to their ACOS family optimised for transportation. It [ READ MORE ]
China is a huge country. When you have the population of that much, it’s not logical to pay license fees, but better to develop your own standards. They did it on blueray equivalent media and on payment card applications. China has a payment system of its own, called CUP and NFC World’s latest article says [ READ MORE ]
Contactless chips for limited use have been popular in public transportation for some years. NXP, just like in mifare case, has been leading this market with mifare ultralight. Ultralight chips have limited memory and no crypto support, but have OTP (one time programmable) memory area which is perfect for enabling the restriction the limited use [ READ MORE ]
A recent post on Near Field Communications Group on Linkedin states that Apple is working on some prototype iPhones which have contactless reader. Here’s the full post: Had to share this news. A highly reliable source has informed me that Apple has built some prototypes of the next gen iPhone with an RFID reader built in [ READ MORE ]
According to the post on NFCNews, Nokia release its first NFC handset which holds the NFC application on the SIM card, rather than the handset itself. Well, let’s go through the concepts first. We can say that the heart of an NFC system is the secure element. Secure element refers to the IC (integrated circuit) which [ READ MORE ]
Access control applications and transportation systems were the “killer applications” that caused the boom in the contactless cards. Access control systems are generally do not require anything more than a unique id, but transportation systems are more complex. Speaking generally, two products dominate the contactless transportation installations: NXP’s mifare family and the Calypso family, which are [ READ MORE ]
The most active community about the NFC world is definitely the French one. There has been a pilot ongoing since the last year and the results are (as almost all pilots) pretty positive. Now France is taking another step and setting up the standards for NFC based mobile payments for Europe. AEPM (Association Européenne Payez Mobile) [ READ MORE ]
When it comes to card business, almost everything is different between US and Europe. US market is huge and very mature. US never migrated to EMV, while Europe has almost completed the migration. (Well mostly) EMV is the defining point between these two markets. Europe has chosen the card to be the safest and made a [ READ MORE ]