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Solution which Eases Secure Mobile Ticketing Integration for Transit Operators Wins EuroCloud Award
November 2016 by Marc Jacob
A solution which enables transit operators to quickly and simply integrate secure mobile ticketing and other value added services within an existing smart card ticketing validation infrastructure, has won the ‘Best Cloud Services provided by Start-Ups’ category at the EuroCloud 2016 Awards.
The Medius CloudSE solution, developed by bespoke software house Medius, uses host card emulation (HCE), to allow third party transit applications to benefit from ‘plug and play’ secure mobile functionality through a virtual secure element (SE) hosted in the cloud and accessed via secure web services.
The solution enables transit operators to provide enhanced mobile transit ticketing and other secure services, such as event ticketing or access control, while reducing development and deployment time, shortening time to market and cutting cost. Because it provides a simple-to-integrate method of storing secure data such as tickets or identity away from the device, it allows transit operators to add these services to their systems without the need to upgrade existing infrastructures for smart card based fare collection. As the solution does not require investment in a physical SE, it also removes the requirement to form multiple business agreements with issuers of hardware SEs, typically mobile operators or handset vendors, thereby simplifying the business model.
