Calypso is an international electronic ticketing standard for microprocessor contactless smart cards, originally designed by a group of transit operators from 11 countries including Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, México, Portugal and others. It ensures multi-sources of compatible products, and allows for interoperability between several transport operators in the same area.
Calypso was born in 1993 from a partnership between the Paris transit operator RATP and Innovatron, a company owned by the French smartcard inventor, Roland Moreno. The key features of the scheme were patented by Innovatron. Most European transit operators from Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and Portugal eventually joined the group in the following years. The first use of the technology was in 1996.
In the same time, the international standard ISO/IEC 14443 for contactless smart cards was being designed, and the actors of Calypso strongly lobbied to have their technology included in the standard, but Innovatron’s patents—and the price of the related royalties—were not compliant with ISO’s policy. Therefore, despite their closeness, there are few significant differences between Calypso’s historical contactless protocol and ISO/IEC 14443 Type B international standard.
The European standard for ticketing data (EN1545) has also been contributed by the actors of Calypso.
After a few years of trials, the system has been generalized in the early 2000s in major European cities such as Strasbourg, Paris, Venice, Lisbon, later followed by Turin, Porto, Marseille, Lyon, and many smaller cities. Calypso is extended now in other countries such as Belgium, Israel, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, etc.
The Calypso standard supports three main product lines: Calypso Prime, Calypso Light and Calypso Basic. All products are part of the same family, with the same security mechanisms and the same unique software in the reader, to achieve the required level of protection, ensure compatibility and ease the integration.
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- Card design and encoding software
- Windows & Mac compatible
- Multiple levels for the procurement of the best software for your application
- Biometric capabilities
- Encoding with Magnetic stripe, Mifare and Desfire
- Print QR, 1D & 2D barcodes
- Easily upgradable
- Works with most card printers and models (Canon, CIAAT, CIM, Dai Nippon Printing, Dascom, Datacard, Matica, Evolis, Gprintec, HID Fargo, Hiti, IDP, Intersider, JVC, NBS, Nisca, Pointman, Polaroid, Magicard, SISS Technology, Zebra). Please check the list of model in our document section
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- Dual-Frequency – Supports 125 kHz and 13.56 MHz contactless credentials
- Multi-Protocol – ISO/IEC14443, ISO/IEC15693, ISO/IEC 18092 NFC
- Interoperable – Supports major card ICs, standards, and technologies
- USB human interface device (HID) keyboard emulation
- TAA Compliant
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- Dual-Frequency – Supports 125 kHz and 13.56 MHz contactless credentials
- Multi-Protocol – ISO/IEC14443, ISO/IEC15693, ISO/IEC 18092 NFC
- Interoperable – Supports major card ICs, standards, and technologies
- Flexible – Adjust to suit your needs with our configuration tool
- TAA Compliant
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The Thales Gemalto AT10K is the latest in the Document Reader product line. It inspect, authenticate or capture data from electronic travel and identity documents quickly and reliably with the Gemalto Document Reader AT10K.
Designed for use in demanding border management scenarios, it also serves banking, hospitality, travel and any other industries where you need accurate and reliable document and ID verification and reading. The design of the Gemalto AT10K is based on detailed and exhaustive analysis of field experience and numerous deployed projects. With a new “landing lights” LED feedback arrangement and document hold down clip it naturally encourages the correct placement and use of the reader, regardless if the user is left or right handed, maximizing first time read rate for faster customer processing.
Comprehensive Software Features
• Uses the same API interface as other Gemalto document readers using Gemalto Document Reader SDK
• Flexible software interface allows host application to select which illumination sources to use, image type, image compression, photo extraction, reflection or ambient light elimination, color enhancement, which data groups to read, etc.
• Simple high level API for quick program development or detailed low level API for fine control of all reader functions. SDK provides full configuration API
• Contactless IC reading for ePassports (LDS 1.7 & 1.8) including basic access control (BAC), passive/active authentication (PA/AA), Chip Authentication (CA), Terminal Authentication (TA), extended access control (EAC v1/v2), supplementary access control (SAC) and PACE-CAM are supported. The SDK provides writing capability using APDUs
• Contactless IC reading for eDL & iDL (electronic driving licenses) up to DG14 including basic access control (BAP v1), Password Authenticated Connection Establishment (PACE), passive/active authentication (PA/AA), Chip Authentication (CA), Terminal Authentication (TA), supplementary access control (SAC) and extended access control (EAC v1) are supported• Full SDK including DLLs, code examples, utilities and demonstration programs. Can be used with Visual C++®, Java® and Microsoft® .NET Framework for Visual Basic® .NET and Visual C#® Reading Capability
The Gemalto Document Reader AT10K reads the following documents:
• ICAO compliant documents in near infrared (IR) per ICAO 9303 specification
• One line Driving Licenses in near infrared (IR) per ISO18013 part 2 specification
• 1D barcodes (2 of 5 interleaved, 2 of 5 industrial, Code 128, Code 39, EAN-8 and EAN-13)
• 2D barcodes used on BCBP and other documents (PDF 417, QR Code®, DataMatrix™ and Aztec formats) from paper documents and many mobile devices
Illumination.The reader illuminates documents in multiple wavelengths:
• Near IR B900: 880nm, +/-5%
• White visible: 430-700nm
• Ultraviolet (UVA): 365nmFeatures
• Reads and images multiple types of documents in Visible, Infrared
and Ultra-violet light using 36-bit color and true-color
image matching technology
• High resolution 550 dpi option includes high speed USB 3.1
Type-C™ host port enabling fast image captures2
• Reads documents and barcodes placed at any rotation on the
glass and presents images correct way up based on features
in document
• Anti-glare technology eliminates image artifacts due to laminate
or OVDs
• OCR data capture of the Machine Readable Zone (MRZ)
• Auto-triggering of document capture – presence of document is
automatically detected
• Hoodless operation in many environments (kiosk mode)
• User removable hood and optional document spine hold down
clip provide flexibility for the user to operate in their preferred
style
• Internally sealed optical chamber prevent dust ingress
• Low scratch, low-iron, fully bonded glass with oleophobic
coating for low maintenance & easy cleaning
• Chemically Strengthened Glass without Oleophobic coating
option for advanced durability
• Powered from USB or external power supply
• Complete access to OCR data and images captured via
Software Development Kit (SDK)
• Access to images as BMP, PNG or JPEG format
• Windows® 7, Windows® 8.1, Windows® 10, macOS and
Linux® compatible1
• Integrated USB 2.0 Hub – 2 ports for external peripherals
