Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

Trans Link Systems taps Collis for consulting services

Monday, June 28, 2010

Collis has been called in by Trans Link Systems (TLS) to provide consulting for OV-chipkaart, the Netherland’s contactless smart card system for public transport.

To help TLS implement the system, Collis is managing and expanding the SDOA specifications, providing support to improve business critical processes within their central back-office, developing and delivering tools to test the new OV-Chip applet and security access module, and conducting interoperability tests of systems from different suppliers and public transport operators.


Collis has also been and acting as information analysts and security specialists for TLS for the past 5 years.

The two companies have recently agreed to conduct non-commercial consulting sessions with TLS’s Open Ticketing Institute initiaive. During these sessions, Collis & TLS will share views about how to bring the Dutch e-Ticketing Scheme to the next level. [end] 

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