Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

Legic technology provides access, payments

Friday, May 8, 2009

Visitors to Italy’s Lake Garda wellness oasis are able to access facilities and purchase meals with LEGIC technology.

Guests are given their personal chip wristband containing a contactless LEGIC transponder. The wristband is an all-in-one admission ticket, electronic wallet and changing room locker key.


On entering, guests use their wristband to open a vacant locker in order to securely store their clothes and personal valuables. Terminals keep guests informed of their locker number, duration of stay and account status at all times. Guests do not need any cash during their entire stay and don‘t have to bother about troublesome keys.

The wristband is used to bill meals, drinks, massages or beauty treatments. As well as all admission-relevant information, every monetary transaction is stored on the LEGIC chip. Guests settle their expenses when they leave the facility. Return reader stations at the exit turnstiles collect the credential for re-use. [end] 

Switzerland’s LEGIC has announced two new partnerships that will bring the company’s contactless smart card technology to China.

Radio Frequency Systems, a manufacturer of contactless smart card technology, will use the LEGIC advant 4000 chip generation to create new reader modules for access control applications.

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LEGIC Identsystems has announced the development of LEGIC MMT, an offering designed to provide its customers with a new level of security and convenience for NXP Mifare-based environments.

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A recent survey conducted by Wincor Nixdorf shows that a strong majority of French consumers are interested in using fingerprint scanning technology to secure transactions.

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Mobile payment solution provider I Love Velvet announced that it has reached the second level of EMV certification (EMV2) which authorizes PIN and integrated chip payments from debit, credit and smart cards around the world.

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In Europe, the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) and EPASOrg has developed a new global standard to help accommodate changes in new payment technologies, according to SupermarketNews.com

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it will hold a workshop on April 26 to examine the use of mobile payments and how this emerging technology impacts consumers.

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