ACS launches its new ACOS3 Combi and ACOS10 Combi

Top Quote The new ACOS3 COMBI and ACOS10 COMBI cards offer a single-chip solution to support applications using different card interfaces. The cards support all-in-one card applications that are gaining more popularity across the globe. End Quote
  • (1888PressRelease) May 21, 2011 - HONG KONG - Advanced Card Systems Ltd. (ACS, wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Card Systems Holdings Ltd., SEHK: 8210), Asia Pacific's top supplier and one of the world's top 3 suppliers of PC-linked smart card readers (Source: Frost & Sullivan), introduces its new ACOS3 COMBI and ACOS10 COMBI for contact and contactless smart card applications.

    ACOS3 COMBI and ACOS10 COMBI are the latest additions to the ACOS portfolio, which boasts of contact and hybrid smart cards that have been widely used in many applications across the globe. Now, with its new combi- cards, ACS offers a solution where a single card can be used for smart card applications using different card interfaces-ACOS3 COMBI and ACOS10 COMBI-which support contact and contactless interfaces using a single chip. Alternatively, they can also be designed to support the contactless interface only.

    Current applications using ACOS3 and ACOS10 contact or hybrid cards are compatible with ACOS3 COMBI and ACOS10 COMBI. With its sophisticated security features, ACOS3 COMBI is particularly applicable to payment and e-purse applications, as well as customer loyalty programs, physical access control, corporate identity and healthcare management systems. Meanwhile, being compliant with China's PBOC 2.0 EDEP standard, a national standard that is compatible to EMV2000, ACOS10 COMBI caters to contactless micro-payment operations, particularly in the fields of transportation, campus applications, food merchandising, parking toll, banking, and more. Security provided by both cards can also be enhanced with the ACOS6 Security Access Module (SAM), which performs Mutual Authentication, Secure Messaging, Key Diversification and Key Injection to augment security in various applications. With all these features and more, ACOS3 COMBI and ACOS10 COMBI are cost-effective and convenient options for application developers and operators all over the world.

    Learn more about ACS's combi- cards at:

    http://acs.com.hk/index.php?pid=product&prod_sections=0&id=ACOS3
    http://acs.com.hk/index.php?pid=product&prod_sections=0&id=ACOS10

    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 top supplier and one of the world's top 3 suppliers of PC-linked smart card readers, as well as the winner of the Product Quality Leadership Award for Smart Card Readers from Frost & Sullivan. One of the companies on Forbes Asia's 2010 "Best Under a Billion" list, a prestigious list of 200 top-performing companies with sales between US$5 million and US$1 billion selected from 12,930 publicly listed enterprises in Asia Pacific, 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://www.acs.com.hk/.

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