Smartcard Enabled Interoperable Ticketing

Barry Hochfield

Wednesday 10th December 2003, 6:30 pm (refreshments available from 6:15 pm)

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 36 York Place, Edinburgh EH1 3HU (street map)

Barry’s talk will consist of a ‘primer’ on smartcards with a focus on their use for ticketing applications. He will then present an overview of the business problems addressed and the underlying technologies behind contact-less smartcards in particular. He will then cover the security mechanisms and architectures that enable interoperability at all layers from data-link and transport up to application operation and scheme management.

About the speaker

Barry is co-founder and Technical Director of Ecebs Ltd. He has over twenty-four years’ experience in IT and computing including marketing, and general management with nine years focussed on smartcard technology. He has held senior positions at Apple Computer, Motorola Semiconductors, Mondex International and Keycorp. He was responsible for developing the specifications for the smartcard industry standard multi-application operating system MULTOS 4.0, and holds several patents in smartcards and other IT fields.