NFC for Loyalty Cards and Access Control

G&D NFC solutions support diverse applications

Contactless payment and transit ticketing are not the only applications supported by our NFC technology. This also enables storage of other applications such as loyalty and frequent-user cards, coupons, event tickets, and logical and physical access control on NFC-enabled cell phones. These can then be used to collect points, enjoy rebates and events, or access services and office facilities, for instance.

Since consumers will apply for new NFC services after they have been equipped with enabled devices, applications such as loyalty or hotel access services need to be delivered independently of time and location. Due to both this post-issuance requirement and user-friendliness, Over-the-Air (OTA) is the perfect channel for provisioning any application into the consumer’s NFC device. OTA provisioning is a process that enables issuers to securely download and, if necessary, personalize applications on the consumer’s NFC handset. This is where G&D can help service providers with its range of Trusted Service Manager (TSM) services.

Wide area of application

As a Trusted Service Manager, G&D supports various business verticals and application issuers – such as retailers, hotels, the corporate sector, and event organizers – with plans to utilize NFC cell phones as access channels to their applications and services.

G&D TSM services for application issuers support the following features:

• Key management of the issuer security domain (SD), including rotation of initial SD keys if necessary
• Loading of applications (applets) into the issuer SD
• Personalization of applets
• Lifecycle management of the application issuer applet, such as locking, unlocking, and data updates
• Topping up application value
• Services related to management of the mobile application, such as mobile wallet and providing the user interface for issuer applications
• Deletion of issuer applets
• Multiple interfacing options with application issuer back-end systems
• Fully integrated customer care, monitoring, reporting, and billing functions

Simple and tailored NFC introduction

G&D NFC solutions are designed to support various market verticals and have flexible business process modeling built in. As one of the leading smart card companies with in-depth knowledge of its customer needs, G&D can deliver world-class NFC solutions.

G&D is able to provide a single interface to TSM services, hiding the fragmentation and complexity of different handsets, networks, and secure elements. Outsourced TSM services save significant investment in internal development and operation, as well as in capital expenditure.. G&D offers an extensive suite of features, covering both current and future needs for a variety of different applications and services.