Rio de Janeiro launches Gemalto touchless transportation ticketing wristband
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Gemalto (Euronext Stock Exchange NL0000400653 GTO), a global leader in the field of digital security, announced a partnership with Rio Card, a public transport ticketing operator in Rio de Janeiro, to launch a contactless transport ticketing wristband. If the solution is fully implemented, it will simplify secure payments, greatly facilitate ticketing operations, and make the various modes of transportation (bus, ferry, subway, train, etc.) that serve more than 10 million residents and visitors in Brazil’s second largest city smoother To operate.
Brazil and Rio de Janeiro are preparing to host the world’s most important sports event. The RioCard contactless transportation wristband is one of the city’s major innovations to improve infrastructure, facilitating the 500,000 foreign tourists expected to visit[2]. Corresponding non-touch card readers have been installed throughout the city, and users only need to wave their wristbands to get unimpeded. It is expected that this solution can increase the utilization rate of public transportation, increase transaction speed and simplify logistics; even for a long time after the end of this major sports event, the solution will still be a variety of simple and safe touchless transactions Base.
Gemalto provided RioCard with the waterproof “Celego Contactless MiniTag wristband” (Celego Contactless MiniTag wristband) and its “Celego Contactless MiniTag Sticker” (Celego Contactless MiniTag Sticker), both of which are embedded Gemalto’s contactless chip, certified by Visa and MasterCard, contains all the security functions of a traditional contactless EMV card. RioCard introduced a contactless bus card in Rio de Janeiro as early as 2003. Today, this type of bus card has become a part of the daily lives of millions of users.
“The new RioCard wristband is conducive to our goal of providing Rio de Janeiro’s residents and visitors with a more convenient and safer travel experience,” RioCard CEO Cassiano Rusycki (Cassiano Rusycki) said. “Like the Lille project in France and the Visa wearable wristband project in Brazil, the recent success of the touchless project has led to this solution. This solution can leave a technical legacy to make traffic smoother and allow passengers to travel. More carefree.”
“Gemalto’s expertise in building contactless payment systems allows us to maintain a leading position in providing wearable and labeling solutions,” said Rodrigo Serna, President of Gemalto Americas. “Previously, Gemalto and RioCard have jointly launched a 2013 pilot program, which uses Gemalto’s Near Field Communication (NFC) SIM card technology to enable people to use their mobile phones as RioCard’s contactless transportation cards. RioCard and Gemalto will work together Go forward together and stand together at the forefront of the wearable payment trend; it is expected that by 2019, the growth of the wearable payment business will more than sixfold and the number of devices will reach 126 million.”
About Gemalto
Gemalto (Euronext Stock Exchange NL0000400653 GTO) is a global leader in the field of digital security, with an annual turnover of 3.1 billion euros in 2015 and customers in more than 180 countries. Gemalto brings more trust to this increasingly interconnected world.
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