COMPANY BACKGROUND
CNA, a non-profit association, promotes, defines and directs the Calypso Contactless Ticketing specifications and contribute to the international standardization process. CNA created an applet and an Open-Source SDK.
RANGE OF PRODUCTS OR SOLUTIONS
– The Calypso Applet, which emulates a contactless card in any Java platform, either eSE or SIM cards
– The Calypso HCE specifications & guidelines, to implement a transportation ticketing solution in any Android NFC Smartphone.
– Eclipse Keyple: an open source SDK for Control Access and Ticketing
ADDED VALUE / UNIQUE SELLING POINT
Calypso technology has been designed to ensure interoperability between transportation networks equipment’s and is open to all manufacturers providers. It has been deployed for 20 years in 27 countries without any hacking reported since now and work with any kind of NFC portable objects: Smart Cards, Secures elements, Sim cards or HCE in Smart Phones.
MAIN REFERENCES
Ar. 20% of public transport networks are based in Calypso. The techno is deployed in card and/or mobile solution in French (incl. Great Paris), Belgium, Portugal, Israel, Quebec Region, Mexico City, north Italia, Maghreb region…
CERTIFICATIONS
CNA is founder member of the Smart Ticketing Alliance who created the RF certification CEN TS 16794.
Both HCE and Applet solutions has their certification. More: https://calypsonet.org/calypso-for-mobile/