Vendors seeking to break the dominance of Mifare technology in the contactless transit-ticketing market plan to show samples of the first products complying with their new Cipurse specification in November.
The group, known as the Open Standard for Public Transport Alliance, or OSPT, officially released the specification Thursday, more than 18 months after its founding vendors, Infineon Technologies, Inside Secure, Oberthur Technologies and Giesecke & Devrient, announced the group.
While facing an uphill battle in taking on an entrenched Mifare ecosystem led by NXP Semiconductors, chip and card vendors in the alliance say they are seeing some interest from the transit industry for their planned products. They declined to disclose names of possible users of the technology outside of current alliance members.