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Smart Card Technology

Xenotran was provided smart-card contract designs services for both startups and large defense contractors, and has products deployed across the Washington, DC Metro.

Cubic Transportation Systems

Xenotran was contracted with Cubic Transportation Systems to co-develop an engineering design for Cubic's GO-CARD product. This product is a smart card used for passenger revenue collection in transit systems such as subways, trains, and buses. The technology was deployed for the Washington, DC Metro as their SmarTrip card.

Cubic chose Xenotran for its extensive experience in smart card technologies. Xenotran's expertise encompasses all aspects of system design spanning both Reader and Token technologies inclusive of RF signaling, reception and power capture, low power digital design, protocol implementation, cryptographic design/implementation, data integrity, and tamper resistance.