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ITSO

Smart Card Solutions has been at the forefront of the UK's ITSO contactless ticketing initiative, playing an active role since 2002, in particular participating in the ITSO Technical Committee (ITC) and the ITSO Security Group (ISG). Smart Card Solutions has also been an active member of the ITSO integration forum (I2F) since its first meeting and has participated in several technology demonstration events. Our experience and advice is frequently sought by other I2F members. Smart Card Solutions has extensive knowledge of the implementation and certification aspects of ITSO's technical specifications having developed several products (cards, POST, and POST/HOPS combination) for ITSO certification:

 

  • Customer Media 2 (generic micro-processor card) – FVC2 for the JCOP30 platform (the first product to achieve an ITSO certificate, C-00001) and FVC2 for the JCOP31 platform (C-00034) The certified personalisation POST (C-00005 / Burall Infosmart)
  • Customer Media 3 (CMD3 – Mifare Standard 4K) – certificate C-00015 / Burall Infosmart.
  • Smart Card Solutions continues to develop ITSO certified components and can provide off-the-shelf solutions or bespoke implementations, according to our customers' needs. We also provide technical support and consultancy for all aspects of scheme implementation, a role that we are currently playing for the consortium that won the Yorcard ITSO pilot scheme.

 

Universal FVC2

Smart Card Solutions has recently completed the ITSO certification of the Universal FVC2 Applet. This applet was commissioned by ITSO as the reference implementation of FVC2. The applet is to be used as the standard implementation of FVC2 to ensure the interoperability of all POSTs with FVC2 media and the correct behaviour of POSTs when encountering any variety of FVC2 application. The Universal FVC2 applet comes with a configuration tool that allows it to be set up in any of the FVC2 configurations allowed by the ITSO Specification.

The Universal FVC2 applet has been developed to support all of the security measures and performance optimizations available to an application meeting the ITSO Specification. It has been designed to minimize the non-volatile memory overhead and to provide rapid installation/personalization, thereby reducing total cost of ownership. The Universal FVC2 applet is not only the reference implementation of the standard; it is the applet of choice for any scheme wishing to deploy the ITSO FVC2 application.

For further information on the Universal FVC2 applet Link to download Universal FVC2 Applet flyer

 
 
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