“Until now, it was difficult for payment and ticketing system manufacturers to offer a single reader solution that was capable of simultaneously supporting closed-loop payment schemes like automatic fare collection, and open-loop debit/credit card schemes on the same reader platform,” said Mark Scaparro, Senior Vice President of Identification Solutions (IDS) with HID Global. “With veriCLASS™, we are raising the bar by offering an innovative, world-class product that, coupled with HID’s Developer Center, provides system integrators, terminal manufacturers, OEMs and solution providers with everything they need to bring finished solutions to market faster than ever before.” The open veriCLASS platform supports all popular card technologies including MIFARE®, DESFire® and iCLASS®, a broad range of protocols and payment schemes including FeliCa, EMVCo, Calypso®, MasterCard® PayPass™, Visa® payWave and American Express® expresspay™, and all major operating systems including Windows® and Windows CE. Linux® and Mac® will be supported early 2011. The scalable veriCLASS platform is designed for current contactless technologies and will accommodate contact cards as well as future payment technologies and functional requirements. Remote servicing, diagnostics, firmware upgrades and life cycle management of embedded veriCLASS readers are all enabled by the Embedded Device Manager. The platform includes full CE and FCC modular approvals, enabling OEMs, system integrators and manufacturers of cashless payment and ticketing systems to accelerate certification of their finished solutions. The veriCLASS platform can be embedded into a broad range of payment and ticketing equipment including handheld, point-of-sale (POS), kiosk and retail payment terminals, enabling applications such as automatic fare collection and ticketing, cashless payment, banking/ATM, vending and loyalty solutions. It includes three modules that are supported by HID’s comprehensive Developer Tool Kit, Developer Center and Embedded Device Manager: www.hidglobal.com