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Combined CEPS compliant contact/contactless card focused on transport and payment activities

Objective

The objective of the OMNIPURSE project is to enable contactless e-purse payments on a micro processor dual interface smart card by developing the necessary technical infrastructure (at the card and terminal level) to allow for secure, high speed financial transactions to insure payment for transport facilities. In order to offer interoperability of european e-purses, CEPS will be used as a basis for the financial solution. Marketing ad commercial sustainability will be ensured by implementing the contactless payment function on a multi application card to allow for multiple benefits for the end user. The technical feasability and concept will be proved by implementing the solution designed on one or several demonstrator.

Objectives:
Considering the deployment of Smart Cards in the world, the two business sectors which are identified today as being crucial actors in the real development of smart card usage are transport and finance. The services delivered by these two sectors are daily used by the vast majority of European citizens on the one hand, and constitute a perfect target for adaptation onto a smart card on the other hand. This has already been recognized by the concerned organisations who are already doing their best to migrate to smart card technology. OMNIPURSE is aiming at enabling secure and high speed contact-less e-purse payments via a micro processor dual interface smart card, by developing the necessary infrastructure at the card, protocol, reader and SAM level, to allow for high speed and high secure financial transactions.

Work description:
The work of OMNIPURSE project will consist in:
- gather and exploit information from transport and financial sectors to define the appropriate speed and security, using CEPS as and interoperable basis for the financial solution;
- define the security target and protection profiles;
- develop a crypto processor contact/contact-less chip platform with high level security mechanisms for cards and contact chip for SAM based on public key cryptography;
- develop a numerical mudding tool to allow the optimisation of the contact-less card/reader interface and better predict the performance of the system;
- develop a card operating system architecture ready to support CEPS purse together with multi application environment;
- develop a contact-less reader with high capacity communication speed;
- implement and optimise ticketing an CEPS e-purse application in card, reader and secure access module, in order to track and build on CEPS standard;
- make a functional and security evaluation of the hardware and software of the full designed system, to give a high confidence level to related operators;
- develop the solution in close relationship with transport operators, through the participation in transport workshops and propose or adapt this concept to be used as a base for standardisation in Europe;
- to build a demonstrator to show the benefits of the contact-less e-purse in the context of a business application scenario, with the participation of bank and transpot operator.

Milestones:
OMNIPURSE will demonstrate a performance level never reached and a suitable transation time for transport operators down to 150ms if possible, or at least less than 300 ms. To propose both and innovative high performance and security contact-less system with cards, reader and SAM.
To prove the technical feasibility and concept by implementing the designed solution on one demonstrator. To be ready to a start pilot project in different European cities.
The appropriate speed is: 300ms-CEPS is not the to-day and in the foreseeable 3-5 years the appropriate application for both market segments, EMV in the pre-authorized configuration is the application to target;-Security target for the system;SLE88 (32bits)Crypto processor in contact only, but requirements for contact-less chip are set by the project;
-Numerical modelling tool is available and fit to the requirements with the exception of ferrites usage;
- Card operating system architecture ready to support e-purse type application together with multi application environment in an open architecture (Java,OP)and 32bits chips;
- Contact-less reader with high capacity communication speed (up to 848kbd);
- Demonstrator to proof the technical feasibility and concept.

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AXALTO SA
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AVENUE JEAN JAURES 50
92120 MONTROUGE
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