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Railways Coming With Contactless Smart Cards
Techtree News Staff, Aug 15, 2009 0803 hrs ISTDelhi to get them first!
The Indian Railways has selected NXP Semiconductor's chip technology to drive its contactless smart cards for the automation fare collection system set to be rolled out across five Indian cities
The secure microcontroller-based technology called MIFARE DESFire will be implemented across various Indian cities in automatic ticket vending machines (ATVMs). The cities selected for the roll out are New Delhi, Secunderabad, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, and Pune.
In combination with card and inlay-manufacturer Siepmann's card systems, NXP will provide MIFARE DESFire-based ICs for around 6.5 lakh contactless cards over a period of one year. This project is expected to be launched in September 2009 and will initially be rolled out in Delhi and Secunderabad.
The Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), the IT wing of the Ministry of Railways had developed the ATVMs as part of an Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS).
In 2007, CRIS developed the smart card-based contactless solutions using NXP's MIFARE 1KB Classic chip in Mumbai Suburban railway and Chennai. Over five lakh smart cards were issued to passengers in the Central/Western Railway at Mumbai and Southern Railway at Chennai.
According to NXP, 75% of all electronic tickets in public transport worldwide use the NXP MIFARE technology.
The secure microcontroller-based technology called MIFARE DESFire will be implemented across various Indian cities in automatic ticket vending machines (ATVMs). The cities selected for the roll out are New Delhi, Secunderabad, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, and Pune.
In combination with card and inlay-manufacturer Siepmann's card systems, NXP will provide MIFARE DESFire-based ICs for around 6.5 lakh contactless cards over a period of one year. This project is expected to be launched in September 2009 and will initially be rolled out in Delhi and Secunderabad.
The Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), the IT wing of the Ministry of Railways had developed the ATVMs as part of an Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS).
In 2007, CRIS developed the smart card-based contactless solutions using NXP's MIFARE 1KB Classic chip in Mumbai Suburban railway and Chennai. Over five lakh smart cards were issued to passengers in the Central/Western Railway at Mumbai and Southern Railway at Chennai.
According to NXP, 75% of all electronic tickets in public transport worldwide use the NXP MIFARE technology.
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