Transport Ticketing

For long years, Mifare has been the king of public transportation as the ticketing platform. As I already mentioned few times, Mifare has been insanely successful, yet it was proved to be not secure any more. However it still works for may transit operators and NXP made its move to secure it with more…

ACS announced its new dual interface smart card ACOS7. ACS is a Hong Kong based company working on smart cards and readers. Their product portfolio is quite strong, they almost have everything that you can imagine. I especially love the card…

Contactless chips for limited use have been popular in public transportation for some years. NXP, just like in mifare case, has been leading this market with mifare ultralight. Ultralight chips have limited memory and no crypto…

According to the post at NFC News, ASK released a contactless reader device for home use. Reader is connected via USB port and is compatible with all popular contactless card types.