March 2006 - Scottish Smartcards Commence Deployment

March 2006. – The Scottish National Entitlement Card has commenced operation. The smartcard will be used to provide free transport across 32 local government regions for qualified people such as pensioners and those registered disabled. The full story can be found by following this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4854602.stm

Ecebs technology is employed in all stages of the transport smartcard application. In addition to devices that will be placed in buses and ticket machines, Transport ticketing/ITSO, we also provide back office systems. Barry Hochfield, Ecebs Technical Director said “ This deployment is going to be the largest of its kind in the UK this year by a long way. It is especially gratifying that Scotland will be offering a comprehensive smartcard based service to its citizens and that the essential parts of the security technology have been developed here in East Kilbride.”