Last year, Max was invited to discover and describe the benefits of the CIPURSE™ open standard for city travel.
This year, we are taking this voyage of discovery to the next level as Max embarks on a world tour. This time, his task is to explore existing case studies, explain how the transportation technology works and see how it is making millions of people’s lives easier and more convenient.
Over the next few months, you can expect news flashes from Max as he visits Munich, São Paulo, Korea, Singapore and many more.
Smart technologies are the obvious answer to today’s urbanization, environmental and population growth challenges. These technologies have the ability to make our cities more liveable and more efficient. Public transportation is one of the key liveability factors in smart cities and this is an increasingly complex undertaking. Nowadays, citizens seek a seamless and convenient mobility experience, extending beyond the obvious bus and train services to include more flexible schemes such as car-sharing and bike rentals. Infrastructure providers need to support all these different transport modes.
Furthermore, transport ticketing schemes are increasingly being merged with other services such as payment, ID, access and loyalty, and users want to conveniently use all these different applications with one single card or – better still – with a mobile phone or perhaps even a wearable device. This means using the same card (or device) to buy your train ticket, grab a take-away coffee and get into your office building when you arrive.
Infineon’s employee badges for office access rely on CIPURSE™ products. The decision to upgrade to CIPURSE™ was largely prompted by new security environment requirements defined by Infineon’s site certification body, the German Office for Information Security (BSI). BSI requested that the existing access control system be upgraded to a higher security level. Infineon decided for CIPURSE™ due to its high level of security – CIPURSE™ won the German IT-Security Prize 2012. The new employee badges and access control system were rolled out to all Infineon sites over the past year. The badges support multiple functions, allowing employees to also pay for coffee and lunch at several canteens and to access printers. This flagship project has established a new reference case for secure building access, which many other companies have since adopted.