Discover Financial Services plans to conduct a large employee pilot starting this month with an NFC-enabled iPhone attachment, iCarte, NFC Times has learned.
The pilot will be conducted with 400 to 500 employees who work at Discover’s headquarters office near Chicago and a regional office in Salt Lake City, Utah, said Troy Bernard, director of chip payment technology and mobile for Discover. It is believed to be the first test of the iCarte attachment in the United States.
Discover will preload its Zip contactless application onto the embedded secure chip in the NFC add-on, which is made by Canada-based Wireless Dynamics.