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Follow on Google News | ACS showcases CEPAS-compatible NFC contactless readers at Cards Asia 2010Aligning itself with the theme, "Capturing the tremendous potential of payments in the world’s most important region,” ACS showcased NFC Contactless Readers compatible with Singapore’s CEPAS specification for electronic money smart cards.
Organized by Terrapinn, Cards Asia 2010 is the 15th annual celebration of Asia’s leading smart cards event. It focuses on the theme, “Capturing the tremendous potential of payments in the world’s most important region,” and has enlisted the attendance of over 250 leading solution providers and over 60 high level speakers. ACS aligns itself with the exhibition’s theme by showcasing products that support CEPAS, Singapore’s specification for electronic money smart cards being used for public transportation and micro-payment at retails shops, vending machines and so on. One of the highlighted products is the ACR122U reader which, is being used by CEPAS cardholders at home for checking their card balances and doing online shopping. " Mobile payment, along with transportation, is perhaps the most common sector where NFC applications have experienced growth in terms of commercial deployments. It is a very important market for NFC, particularly in Asia where developing countries are gradually seeing the viability and convenience of automated mobile payment solutions," ACS Executive Director and Chief Technical Officer Mr. Keng Boon Tan, who spearheads the ACS exhibiting team, comments. " This event is an important avenue for players in the Asian industry to share innovative technologies and solutions for the advancement of full scale NFC deployments. We at ACS contribute our expertise to this initiative by showcasing our NFC products that have been proven for their reliability and competence in mass NFC applications." # # # About ACS Advanced Card Systems Ltd. (ACS, wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Card Systems Holdings Ltd., SEHK: 8210), founded in 1995, is Asia Pacific's number one supplier of PC-linked smart card readers and winner of Product Quality Leadership Award for Smart Card Readers from Frost & Sullivan. One of a select group of global companies at the forefront of the smart card revolution, ACS develops a wide range of high quality smart card reading/writing devices, smart cards and related products and distributes them to over 100 countries worldwide. Visit ACS at http://acs.com.hk. End
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