APIs for Ticketing Terminals processing smart cards

In order to facilitate the design of terminals processing smart card readers (user card, security module), CNA (the Calypso Networks Association) has standardized software interfaces for ticketing terminals.

This solution enables:

• Any smart card reader solution to be operated independently of the terminal architecture;
• Any ticketing application to be ported regardless of the terminal products provided by manufacturers.

The first solutions that translate these interface definitions into programming languages or implement these interfaces are now available.