“When Smart Card based Automated Fare Collection System was implemented to curb cash handling fraud and to speed up transactions, another issue occurred. The transit operators discovered that some passengers evaded fare payment by simply pretending to wave their transit card on the fare reader with the intention of purposely avoided the fare deduction from the reader – an action to be prevented immediately. ”

In Netherland and Malaysia, the fare evasion by passengers is being curbed through the usage of a mobile handheld terminal for transit card validation. Our clients in the Automated Fare Collection Industry deployed the ruggedized terminal on buses, trams and trains to validate the fare transaction of passengers’ transit card using the terminal.

Hundreds of terminals – the ST4ex Series is currently on the field operated by transit officers that will hop from one route to another to check on the passengers’ transit card. The ST4ex Series of terminals are ruggedly design with highly versatile features of the ability to cater to various functionalities.

Depending on our clients’ requirement, the terminal can be customized with multiple requirements; from various smart card protocols (ISO/IEC 7816, ISO/IEC 14443 A/B, MIFARE, ISO 15693 HID iClass, FeliCa) to integration of barcode scanner for conventional ticket reading.