Gantner has succeeded in placing its contactless leisure systems in many leading complexes in the booming Slovenian thermal regions. For example in Lasko, in the Dobrna thermal baths or, its most recent success, in the state-of-the-art leisure and wellness centre at the Olimia thermal baths, which is aiming to stand out from the competition not only by virtue of the unique things it offers but also thanks to particularly high-quality technological equipment. ▸

Setec, Northern Europe’s leading developer and manufacturer of visual and electronic card products, and a Gemplus company, announced today that it will supply an additional 300,000 PKI SIM cards to Wataniya Telecom, Kuwait. This is the largest order for PKI-based (Public Key Infrastructure) SIM cards worldwide and follows a previous order for 800,000 64k PKI SIMs, to be used for secure authentication. ▸

Gemplus is reinforcing its contactless access control offer by introducing “GemProx,” a contactless reader product range dedicated to rapidly growing markets such as identity, proximity payments, physical access control and mass transit. The speed and convenience of contactless technology mean that fast food restaurants, gas stations, public transport services, banks and many other industries are set to create significant demand for this sort of solution. The GemProx range is specifically designed to provide system integrators with a cost-efficient and easily deployable 13.56 MHz proximity contactless technology. ▸

In order to provide the market with an adequate solution to implement DESFire cardtechnology into their solutions, Integrated Engineering has extended its ISO 14443 level 4 A&B kits with a full DESFire development suite for its OEM customers. The suite is available together with an easy to integrated API/SDK and sample software routines, which will strongly reduce time to market for customers. ▸

Thales has been awarded the contract from Circumvesuviana s.r.l. to supply the access control and ticketing system for Circumvesuviana railway and bus network. Circumvesuviana s.r.l is the transport operator for the railway, bus network, and cable car system that runs in and around the Naples and Mt Vesuvius region of the Amalfi coast. Thales will provide complete management of the access control and ticketing system for 30 stations of the Circumvesuviana railway, the upgrade of the access control and ticketing system for 10 further stations, and the ticketing controls for 200 buses. ▸

The East West e-Ticketing BV (Thales, Accenture and Vialis), announced that Connexxion will equip its fleet of approx. 3,000 buses with a state-of-the-art system for e-ticketing and fleet management. The contract amounts to more than 60 million euros. The new system is a world first in integrating, on one computer platform, fleet management with e-ticketing that is being rolled out across The Netherlands. This is part of the new nationwide secure e-ticketing system that is being implemented by the East West e-Ticketing BV. ▸

“Starting this month, all Blue cards issued by American Express will come embedded with an RFID transponder that allows customers to pay for goods with the tap of the card against an RFID reader. The cards will retain the traditional magnetic stripe, so they can still be used as regular credit cards when RFID readers are not available. The Blue card’s RFID-enabled feature will be accepted by all merchants participating in American Express’ ExpressPay program. ”