Provision of Near Field Communications System

Quantity or scope

The National Transport Authority requires an enhancement to introduce the ability to read Leap Card from Smart Phones, and to purchase top-ups and tickets from Smart Phones and then apply the resultant ticket or top-up to the smart card via the NFC functionality on the Smart Phone. The National Transport Authority requires an outsourced solution (for the Transparent NFC server in the diagram below). This is to allow comparison of hosted/on-premise solution with cloud solution.

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