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April 2008 • Volume 13 Number 4 |
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Executive Director's Letter Dear members and friends of the Alliance, In the last few weeks, I have been crisscrossing the country speaking at conferences, attending industry events and spending some time in Latin America. The question that everyone who knows me wants to ask is, “How is CTST2008 coming?" So, for anyone that I missed during my travels, let me answer that question exactly the way I have answered everyone else who has asked me in person, “Good, but I really don’t know yet.” The things that I know are good – and maybe even great – are the things we can control, such as the content of the program, the speakers and the topics they have been selected to speak about, the names and the titles of the registered attendees, and the companies who are exhibiting in the hall. All of these factors are known already and I feel really good about them. But what makes a conference great is what happens after the doors open. Industry people refer to it as the “buzz.” It is the energy that permeates the exhibit hall. It is the questions that follow the presenters' remarks. It is the discussions that take place in the nooks and crannies of the conference facility during breaks and at the receptions. That is when you know whether things are really good – or not. At our 2007 Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference in Boston last fall, the buzz was great. Whether we can make the same magic happen after moving the conference from the intimacy of a hotel ballroom with a single-track agenda serving a mostly familiar, loyal Smart Card Alliance audience to the grand stage of the Orlando Convention Center with five times the number of speakers presenting, people attending, and concurrent activities happening all over the venue is yet to be known. But I can’t wait to find out. Hopefully, you will be there with me and we will find out together!
Member Profile: Scheidt & Bachmann USA
Feature of the Month The Barclaycard OnePulse Card: Transit and Financial Payment in One Card
The Transport for London Oyster Card The Transport for London (TfL) Oyster® card was launched in August 2002 and is used for transit payment on all London Underground and London Bus operations. The system was the first large-scale deployment of a fare terminal infrastructure compliant with ISO/IEC 14443, Type A and Type B. The system incorporates over 18,000 devices, including fare gates, ticket vending machines, ticket office machines, bus fare registers, bus validators, handheld terminals, and merchant POS equipment.
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This month, Smart Card Talk spoke with Thomas Wunk, Vice President of Operations for Scheidt & Bachmann USA Inc. Mr. Wunk is a Certified Administrator of Public Parking and teaches a number of sessions for the IPI CAPP certification process. A graduate of the State University of New York system, Mr. Wunk has been in the Parking and Access Control industry since 1973. He has developed and provided consultative, operational, and technical training sessions for the IPI, ASIS, and the AAAE. He has served on several related industry boards and technical committees. His background includes the design, application analysis, implementation, and subsequent commissioning of sophisticated systems. Projects he has worked on include embassies (both domestic and foreign), military bases, airports, transportation authorities, academic and medical campuses, and commercial establishments. Mr. Wunk is also currently Vice Chair - Parking for the Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council.
Last month's Smart Card Talk article described an approach that leveraged co-branded card marketing programs and the multi-application capabilities provided by smart card technology to create a payment card that can be used for both transit and financial payment. This month's article profiles the Barclaycard OnePulse card, which used this model to provide contactless, EMV and transit payment to Barclay's customers in London.
Executive Director's Letter
