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SmartConnect Card Management System

The Smart Connect software range, based on industry standard technologies, enables local authorities to introduce a smart card scheme quickly and cost effectively and provides the building blocks on which to develop and implement larger and more complex smart card schemes.

The software issues smartcards which are encoded to agreed standards to ensure that cards are compatible on a national level.  It can also be used to issue non-smart cards including plastic, QR barcode and magstripe cards.

The software is available via the g-Cloud framework. Visit the Digital Marketplace website at https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/services for more details on how to contract with us.

Components

• Microsoft SQL Server Cardholder database
• Card issuance supporting smartcards (DESFire EV1 4k, DESFire EV1 8k, MiFare 1k, MiFare 4k, JCOP 30, JCOP31, DESFire), barcode cards, QR codes, magnetic stripe cards, plastic cards and flash passes
• Web-based enrolment system supporting enrolment for a number of services without completing multiple forms. Services supported include:
  • Scholars Passes
  • University Passes
  • Driver ID and DBS Update Service
  • Commercial Ticketing
  • Library
  • Leisure
  • National Concessionary Travel - ITSO
  • Loyalty
  • School meals
  • Proof of age (PASS)
  • E-purse
  • Staff card
  • Access control
  • Payments
  • Usage reporting and Transaction Processing
• Image capture & secure storage (including the citizen’s photograph and signature)
• Sophisticated eligibility checking and recording facilities (allowing citizens to present their proof of entitlement only once and enabling a scanned copy of any documentary proof to be stored in the card management database)
• Web-based user interface allowing citizens to log-on using their smart card and view the details stored about them on-line
• Ability to import data from existing systems and databases
• Card management including routines for reporting lost or stolen cards and requesting replacement cards
• Card print and personalisation software allowing local authorities to produce cards without the assistance of an external print bureau, if desired
• On-card java applets supporting ITSO, PKI, and e-purse
• Card data viewing software allowing citizens to view the data that is stored on their smart card
• Card data maintenance software allowing local authorities to update the data stored on a citizen’s card, and at the same time ensure the integrity of the data in the back-end database
• Sophisticated Action lists and Hotlists with automatic size management facilities
• Payments
• Reports tool including built-in reports; customisable reports and Crystal reports interface

Integration

SmartConnect has been successfully integrated with a number of 3rd party software solutions including:

• WorldPay
• SagePay
• ApplePay
• GooglePay
• Capita Library Management System
• Civica Library Management System
• Gladstone MRM Plus 2 Leisure Management System
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM System
• GOSS CRM
• National Transplant Organ Donor System
• SIMS
• Unicard Virtual Store (Part 11 ticketing)
• Unicard ITSO HOPS
• Visa Virtual Store (Part 11 commercial ticketing)
• Visa ITSO HOPS

For a more comprehensive list of the systems with which SmartConnect has been integrated please click here.

For information on whether SmartConnect can be integrated with a specific system please contact SmartCitizen.