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Digital Mobility with Mobile Driver’s Licenses
Most people reading this will already know what an mDL is (a Mobile Driver’s License of course). That’s because it isn’t a new idea; it has been in development for roughly eight years now. What is new this year however is the development of the existing mDL standard to include remote presentation, an add-on functionality…
Be on the smart side of the Great Reset
The human society is now at crossroads – demanding changes in our lifestyle, health choices, economics, and civil liberties. These changes are accelerated by climate change, political response to the pandemic, the need for racial and gender equality, human migration, and of course, a few break-through technologies such as digital automation, data analytics, and machine-learning…
The need for Contact-free Fare Collection
Lockdown for transit The global pandemic has had a devastating impact on those providing transit services due to passengers being told to stay at home and social distance. Public transport services have been maintained for essential workers only. At this time, transport operators have moved to reduced schedules to provide basic coverage and protect their…
Shift to Contact-free Fare Collection
Lockdown for transit The global pandemic has had a devastating impact on those providing transit services due to passengers being told to stay at home and social distance. Public transport services have been maintained for essential workers only. At this time, transport operators have moved to reduced schedules to provide basic coverage and protect their…
Contact-free public transport (Part 3)
This is the third of three blogs about technologies to support contact-free use of public transport. The radio again – I hear that the Transport Minister for England had just reported that there have been fewer than 400 fines for people failed to wear face covering on public transport. More than 115,000 travellers have been…
What does Apple’s purchase of Mobeewave mean for SoftPOS?
Using mobile devices for securing payments has been, and continues to be, a key area of interest for Consult Hyperion and our customers. We have helped many of our clients in this space from: providing advice on the market landscape, advising on security, testing security, developing security architectures, and building solutions. Apple’s purchase of Mobeewave…
Contact-free and App Clips in Apple’s iOS 14
The Use of Contact-free is Accelerating At Consult Hyperion, we have already seen the pandemic accelerate the adoption of contact-free payments in the face to face environment as customers have become wary of catching COVID by touching shared devices, such as self-service terminals and PIN pads. The use of personal devices for payments is hardly…
At last, NDEF
A decade ago I remember writing that one of the problems with QR codes is that there is no security. Some years later I wrote an article pointing out that NFC ought to be safer than QR codes because NFC included a standard for digitally-signing tags (although I did also note that no-one used it)…
Cardmaggeddon in China (and Canada)
I nipped round to Waitrose to get some milk the other day. As I closed the door behind me I realised that I’d left my wallet on my desk. But guess what – I didn’t care. Waitrose takes contactless, and they’ve implemented in properly (with CDCVM), so there’s no need to take cards as consumers…
