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Confidex contactless smart tickets have been specially designed for large scale ticketing applications in public transport, access control and parking. With advanced materials and proven in-house large volume production technology they offer a cost efficient and durable ticket media with high use of comfort. High reliability together with different security and memory capabilities Confidex contactless smart tickets enable operators to reduce cost, generate new revenues, and innovate new services.
Confidex Smart Mobility service provides you with more than just the actual contactless smart tickets. We offer you a turnkey industry solution that is fully compatible with your ticketing infrastructure and includes a ready-to-use, personalized fare media with flexible delivery services.
Our innovation, high quality products have made Confidex the leading supplier of contactless smart tickets globally, producing 20 million tickets per month. Join now our satisfied customers, as we have already shipped cumulatively more than 1 Billion units to the mass transportation operators around the world!
Confidex smart media
A single order can contain multiple fares, artworks and electrical personalizations plus a wide range of shapes – from ISO ticket format to custom size, delivered when needed with reliability.
Where to Apply?
- Contactless smart tickets for public transportation
- Smart keys and visitor badges for hotel, estate, site or office access
- Contactless event or tourist tickets
- Ski passes
- Personal identification e.g. citizen cards, membership cards, student cards
- e-money and pre-paid cards
- Contactless parking tickets
Specifications
RF / Standards
ISO 14443A
ISO 14443B
ISO 15693
MIFARE
ISO 15457
Contactless chip
NXP, Infineon, ST Microelectronics, EM Microelectronic
Memory
from 256bit up to 8k bytes EEPROM
Security
UID (unique identification number)
OTP (one time programmable memory)
Write and/or read protection
Holograms
Optional: cryptographic certificate, 3DES dynamic authentication
Formats
Size: ISO 54x86mm, special sizes on request
Thickness: from 250um to 480um
Delivery form
reel, fanfold, single cut, carnet (booklet)
Personalization
Customer specific printed artwork, thermal paper
Ink-jet post printing: UID, incremental continuous serial number, barcode
Customer specific electrical encoding: certificates, fares, values, validity dates etc.
Customer specific data log files
Further services on request
Materials
Paper / PET inlay / paper, full PET (thin PET card)
Durability
Robust, high immunity to flexion
Life time
Designed for short and long term use, from single use to 1 year in operation
NOTE: some technical indications may be specific to the selected contactless IC.
Customized smart media
High quality tickets to complete the system
We are pleased to offer our customers a wide range of capabilities to meet their requirements. Our engineering team is able to develop a product, which fits the constraints of most of the equipment available in the market. Confidex full-service offering includes a wide range of ticketing formats for variable applications specializing in cost efficient solutions, high quality and functionality.
We maintain very close relationships with leading system integrators such as Cubic, Thales, Conduent , Flowbird, UBI, VIX, Scheidt & Bachmann, Indra, KentKart, Etc. to continuously improve our products.
Contactless smart tickets, smart keys or passes must be considered as part of a complete system. This is why we have paid special attention to the compliance of our contactless media products with existing ticketing infrastructures at each stage, from designing to manufacturing and delivery.
How to select the smart ticketing format?
1. PHYSICAL FORMAT
Confidex offers several ticket sizes and form factors for customers with different ticket issuing procedures. Tickets can be supplied on reel and fanfold format for the automatic fare collection and ticket vending machines as well in single-cut and carnet formats for manual issuing processes.
Depending on your ticket lifespan requirements, whether the use is occasional or semi-occasional, the ticket material selection can be chosen from reinforced paper to PET materials. All of the materials enable good resistance against normal wear and tear and depending on the materials, ticket usage can vary from 6 months up to 5 years.
2. CUSTOMIZING THE TICKETS
Confidex is experienced in customizing tickets for various customer requirements. Tickets are typically electrically encoded and containing certificates, fare, trip, value or validity date data. For your customer specific personalization we offer:
- Offset type 4 colors artwork printing
- Thermal paper option
- Post-printing for IC UID number, and/or customer specific incremental serial number, etc.
- Electrical encoding for the IC.
3. OPTIMIZING THE TICKET TRACKING AND DELIVERY
Confidex tickets are delivered fully customized and packaged for distribution. Packing of the tickets is done according to your specification for direct loading process into automatic fare collection equipment.
For ticket tracking visibility, we offer:
- The electrical format log file from the delivered tickets can be provided e.g. in CD ROM format, which enables full traceability service through the IC serial number.
- Full box numbering scheme and traceability is also supported by the manufacturing operations.
Confidex delivers future-proof Smart Tickets for Glasgow Subway
The ambition with the SPT’s current modernization programme is to create a service and product offering which sets the benchmark for all other metro systems.