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Two fingers to the passport
I am very excited: something very special happened the other day. My front door bell rang, I bounded down two floors of stairs to get there in time to find a delivery man from SMS (Secure Mail Services...
View Article2007: the year of the smart ID card
I predict that 2007 will be a significant year for smart ID cards. This will be the year in which significant numbers of standardised smart ID cards will be available in interoperable form from a...
View ArticleYou’ve been fingered
[John Elliott] A project we worked on for the Police IT Organisation last year is just going live in some UK police forces http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6170070.stm. We worked on the business...
View ArticleBring Your Own Token
I’ve just attended the Smartex Transport Card Forum (TCF) 2014 annual two-day event where I was presenting. The first day was about requirements and we heard from Passenger Focus that customer...
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Secure-enough transit mobile ticketing
This year, I’ve been mostly working on ITSO ticketing in NFC mobiles devices with HCE and without secure elements. ITSO is the e-ticketing specification supported by the Department for Transport in...
View ArticleManaging the join
Since 2008 we have been working with Transport for London to allow contactless payment cards (CPCs) to be accepted wherever Oyster cards are accepted. This was first achieved in December 2012 on buses...
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Technology roadmapping
In 2005 when we performed an update to our biometrics and identification technology roadmap for the UK police, body odour was a ‘technology’ that was looking interesting, but not mature enough. The...
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Wombling free
You all watch Only Connect, right? I was amazed to see a question I knew the answer to due to our nerdiness in specifying the software for Transport for London’s Tri-reader that works with Oyster,...
View ArticleTransport for the North
Cash still accounts for 48% of transactions in the UK, according to Moneybox on BBC R4 just now. As part of this programme, Shashi Verma from Transport for London was being interviewed about the...
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Trends in smart ticketing
I’ve been thinking a lot about smart ticketing system trends in recent months. It is a subject of interest to a lot of our clients. Card-centric ‘Closed-loop’ Systems At the front-end of a smart...
View ArticleOpen-loop payment in transit
In my previous blog, I talked about the trends in smart ticketing systems leading to account-centric and open-loop payments which I want to consider in more detail in this blog. ‘Open-loop’ Payments...
View ArticleContactless bank cards not safe
According to Katie Morley from the Telegraph: Millions of passengers across Britain could be left stranded under plans for every bus in Britain to go cashless despite widespread security fears over...
View ArticleBeacons in Transit
You’ve probable heard about Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons being used to help the visually impared navigate on their own around public transport systems. This has been trialled in Bucharest on...
View ArticleContactless experience from the front line
When contactless payments first emerged, I remember thinking what a waste of money the whole thing was. It was heralded as amazing queue-busting technology that would save so much time in fast food and...
View Article‘Secure enough’ mobile ticketing
We’ve been working with ITSO on how to implement ‘ITSO with HCE’ since January 2015. In January 2016 we presented at Transport Ticketing in London about the work that we had done to date and this was...
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