Major Arcontia deployment on Dutch railways

Arcontia, a Swedish producer of contactless smart card readers and terminals, today announced that its embedded contactless smart card reader, designed for the Nautiz eTicket Pro PDA, is to be used by Dutch Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen - NS).
May 17, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
760 Arcontia, a Swedish producer of contactless smart card readers and terminals, today announced that its embedded contactless smart card reader, designed for the Nautiz eTicket Pro PDA, is to be used by Dutch Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen - NS).

The Swedish company, 758 Handheld Group, was awarded the PDA contract to supply Dutch Railways (NS) with more than 10,000 rugged Nautiz handhelds, of which 6,000 units are the Nautiz eTicket Pro including the embedded Arcontia contactless smart card reader.  The combination of the smart card reader and the PDA provides train conductors with a lean and rugged mobile device for ticket control, travel information and support workflow processes.

The ISO 14443 A/B smart card reader from Arcontia is based on the company’s latest contactless smart card reader platform, the 1300 series.  The reader is fully integrated into the PDA, without any hardware changes to the PDA ergonomics, thanks to the unique design of the smart card reader and antenna.

“The Nautiz eTicket Pro provided the best of two worlds for us; a powerful PDA platform integrated with the latest generation Arcontia RFID module,” said Jasper van Zanten, NS Business consultant.

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