ContactlessNews | OSPT Alliance, Solatis launch CIPURSE certification process

Monday, November 14, 2011

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance has teamed up with test tools provider Solatis to begin the first phase of its certification program for the CIPURSE open security standard.

According to the alliance, this is the first step in providing transit operators with certification testing services that will ensure the compliance of contactless fare cards, NFC smart phone apps and other products with fare collection systems based on the CIPURSE standard.

Soliatis, which is based in Salon de Provence, France, will check the conformity of the application layer for CIPURSE products and provide test suites based on its Scriptis Framework. The company will also provide pre-certification debugging sessions where vendors can get help preparing their products for certification testing.

Laurent Cremer, executive director for the OSPT Alliance, comments: “CIPURSE application certification is an important first step in the overall CIPURSE certification process, which will eventually include a variety of ecosystem products, and we anticipate that products using these applications will begin receiving certification by the end of this year.”

austriamicrosystems joins OSPT, promotes open standard specs

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance announced that austriamicrosystems has joined as a full member.

Since joining the OSPT Alliance, austriamicrosystems will have access to the CIPURSE open standard specification, leveraging its experience into embedded systems for mobile fare collection applications. The open standard promotes vendor neutrality and cross-vendor system interoperability with reduced technology adoption risks, higher quality and improved market responsiveness.

Samsung joins OSPT Alliance

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance, an international association chartered to define a new open standard for secure transit fare collection solutions, has announced the admission of Samsung Electronics as a full member.

SMARTRAC joins OSPT Alliance to promote vendor-neutral fare collection

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance announced that SMARTRAC has joined the OSPT Alliance as a full member.

As the newest member, SMARTRAC will participate in the Alliance’s activities around the development of next-generation transit fare collection systems based on the CIPURSE open security standard. The CIPURSE open security standard addresses the need by transit authorities for future-proof fare collection systems with more advanced security than currently in use.

Smart Card Alliance launches new EMV/NFC certification training

The Smart Card Alliance is offering a certification program dedicated to smart card-based payments – the Certified Smart Card Industry Professional/Payments (CSCIP/P) credential.

Designed for Industry professionals interested in supporting the U.S. move to EMV and NFC contactless mobile technologies, CSCIP/P certification covers EMV migration, mobile and NFC contactless payments, secure remote transactions and smart card use in both card-based and account-based transit payment systems.

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