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More than 17 million OV-chip cards already issued. Personalised on the Datacard MX6000!

The OV-chip card is the well-known mean of payment for travelling on the public transportation in the Netherlands. Based on a contactless chip card, the country has pioniert the possibility to pay for all forms of public transport with one token, regardless of the transportation company used, on a national scale. The project is unique, complex and widely talked about but at the same time it is the card on which so many travellers rely daily to travel around The Netherlands!

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    Trans Link Systems

    In the 1980’s transportation companies already began to experiment with electronic payment systems. But the introduction of the OV-chip card system became really visible with the establishment of Trans Link Systems B.V. (TLS) , the partnership of transportation companies responsible for the introduction of the system, and the use of the first OV-chip cards in 2005. The success of the project can be measured by the impressive number of cards issued, over 17 million, as well as over 37 million transactions have been made on these cards.

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    The OV-Chip card system

    The core of the OV-chip card system is the TLS Central Back Office system (CBO) in which all OV-chip card transactions are being processed. In Short, the CBO gets its data from the devices installed in busses, trams and on stations that recognise the OV-chip card. Each time a traveller makes a trip by using his card to check in and out, one can precisely calculate how many kilometres they have travelled and what the costs are for their journey.

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    Fast and secure issuance – How is this achieved?

    The OV-chip card fulfils an essential role in transaction processing. And in order to issue the transport identity cards in a reliable manner, TLS could not take any risks. They had to ensure that, in order to produce millions of cards quickly and reliably, they could issue them on a robust personalisation platform. Meanwhile the chosen solution has proven itself.

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    Datacard MX6000

    All OV-chip cards are being personalised on multiple Datacard MX6000 systems. The technology being used to personalise the cards is colour retransfer technology, which enables TLS to individually personalise each card and be independent of any pre-printed card design. Furthermore, OV-chip cards can also be attached onto a card carrier in an in-line process, which makes them ready to be sent out in the mail. But the infrastructure does not just offer a solution for the visual personalisation of the card. A data management system handles all data used for card personalisation, including the generation of the smartcard data used to personalise the contactless chip, as well as all (production) management applications that provide the control of the entire production process.

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