PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CARTES AND IDENTIFICATION 2011 -- The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT™) Alliance today announced it has begun the first phase of its certification program for the CIPURSE™ open security standard, establishing the functional application-level specification compliance testing to certify CIPURSE products to be used for automated transit fare collection systems. The OSPT is partnering with Soliatis, a well-respected global testing tools provider and testing laboratory, to perform the certification testing, which will help transit operators ensure that contactless fare cards, NFC smartphone apps and other products will work with fare collection systems based on the CIPURSE standard.
“CIPURSE application certification is an important first step in the overall CIPURSE certification process, which will eventually include a variety of ecosystem products, and we anticipate that products using these applications will begin receiving certification by the end of this year,” said Laurent Cremer, executive director for the OSPT Alliance. “We are very pleased to be working with Soliatis on the compliance testing and on developing and supplying alliance members with affordable test plan, test suite and test tools necessary to help prepare products for certification.”
Soliatis, which is based in Salon de Provence, France, will check the conformity of the application layer for CIPURSE products and provide test suites based on a common environment it has developed called the Scriptis Framework. Soliatis will also provide pre-certification debugging sessions where vendors can get help preparing their products for certification testing.
“We are very excited to be chosen as the supplier of testing tools and testing services for the OSPT Alliance to certify CIPURSE products, and look forward to working with the alliance and its members on the certification process,” said Stéphane Jobard, general manager of Soliatis. “Soliatis has extensive experience working with many of the major international players involved in smart card and NFC technologies, establishing an independent testing laboratory — Soliatis Lab — specifically to serve the needs of our clients, and we welcome this opportunity to serve the OSPT Alliance.”
The CIPURSE open security standard addresses the need by local and regional transit authorities for future-proof fare collection systems with more advanced security than currently in use. Because it is an open standard, CIPURSE promotes vendor neutrality, cross-vendor system interoperability, lower technology adoption risks, higher quality and improved market responsiveness, all of which result in lower operating costs and greater flexibility for transport system operators.
About Soliatis
Soliatis, created in 2002, is the leading center of expertise for RF test solutions. Soliatis participates in all major certification processes in relation with the secure transaction industry. The company offers a comprehensive range of testing tools for all layers (RF, digital and application) in contact and contactless technologies. Soliatis Lab, a subsidiary of Soliatis, is an ISO17025 accredited laboratory offering test services to all stakeholders in the RF transaction devices (cards, handsets, ePassports, electronic driving licenses, readers) value chain.
About the OSPT Alliance
The OSPT Alliance is an international association chartered to define a new open standard for secure transit fare collection solutions. It provides industry education, creates workgroup opportunities and catalyzes the development and adoption of innovative fare collection technologies, applications and services. The OSPT Alliance was founded by leading technology companies — Giesecke & Devrient, Infineon Technologies, INSIDE Secure and Oberthur Technologies — and membership is open to transit operators, solution vendors, government agencies and other stakeholders in the transit ecosystem. For additional information, please visit www.osptalliance.org.