APIs for Ticketing Terminal processing smartcard

To facilitate the design of terminals processing smartcard 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,
• and any ticketing applications to be ported independently of the terminal products supplied by manufacturers.

First solutions translating these interface definitions into programming languages, or implementing these interfaces, are available.