Motorola Wins Contract to Provide Smart Card Automatic Fare Collection System in Lanzhou, China.Business & Technology Editors LANZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2000 Company's third AFC (1) (Application Foundation Classes) A class library from Microsoft that provides an application framework and graphics, graphical user interface (GUI) and multimedia routines for Java programmers. system contract in China supports China's Western Development Strategy Motorola (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT), through its Huamin Beijing Smartcard System Joint Venture, has been awarded the design and implementation of an automatic fare collection (AFC) system in China and the first AFC contract in Northern China from Lanzhou Public Transit Co., Ltd in Lanzhou, China, a city of three million people. The contract provides for the implementation of a contactless smart card A smart card that uses radio frequencies to provide a wireless connection to the reader. The transmission range is only a couple of inches, but allows the card to be quickly passed by a reader in applications such as secured entrances. See smart card and UltraCard. AFC system for the company's 800 buses. "We are delighted that Lanzhou and other progressive cities in China China is a geographical area encompassing multiple territories, under two states. You may be looking for:
WSSD World Summit for Social Development WSSD Websphere Studio Site Developer WSSD Work Skills Series Manual Dexterity WSSD Weapon System Support Development ). "China is a very important region to Motorola and to our smart card and systems solution activity, and we are very pleased to be an integral part of China's Western development strategy." "Motorola's contactless smart cards can help give our customers improved convenience and faster bus entry. And with the back-office systems provided by Motorola, Lanzhou Transit will gain more complete information in order to provide higher levels of transport services The collective functions of layers 1 through 4 of the OSI model. ," said Mr. Wei Hong Kai, General Manager, Lanzhou Public Transit. The Motorola AFC project is a part of China's North Western Development strategy, a significant initiative of the China State Council aimed at the modernization and economic development of the 10 provinces of the region. The strategy emphasizes investments in infrastructure for transit, electrical power and irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. that may help improve the quality of life for the 260 million people there, and may ultimately help to increase the GDP GDP (guanosine diphosphate): see guanine. of the region. Motorola will design the smart card AFC solution for Lanzhou's bus system, with first phase implementation expected by October 2000. Approximately 120,000 monthly pass holders will receive Motorola M-Smart Mercury(TM) high-speed contactless fare cards and 500 buses will be equipped with the new fare system by then. Motorola will provide a global smart card transit solution that includes cards, hardware and back office software as well as system integration and management. Commuters in Lanzhou will use advanced M-Smart Mercury(TM) contactless smart card technology from Motorola. Simply waving these cards near a reader built into the bus entrance will take off the correct fare. In many cases cards can stay in a wallet or purse. The result is convenience, simplicity and faster bus entry for commuters. At the core of the AFC system is the back-office software platform that manages payment and the other information that can allow for improved service and more efficient utilization of assets by Lanzhou Transit. This announcement builds on a series of major projects awarded to Motorola and the ERG Motorola Alliance in the past year, which will be used by over 10 million people worldwide. About Motorola Inc. Motorola, Inc., with sales of $33.1 billion in 1999, is a global leader in providing embedded electronic and integrated communications solutions. Motorola's Worldwide Smartcard Solutions Division (WSSD) provides complete multi-application smart card system solutions including smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. , application development, systems integration and operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. . The company's platforms allow organizations to quickly deploy and build value-added smart card applications in areas such as transit, access control, campus, government and healthcare. More information on Motorola's Worldwide Smartcard Solutions Division can be found at (www.motorola.com/smartcard) M-Smart and M-Smart Mercury are marks of Motorola, Inc. |
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