February 23rd, 2004
EMV Enabling Legacy Systems on Fourcourts
By Matthew Barnes
Abstract
Major credit card companies are instigating a shift from
traditional magnetic stripe cards to smartcards in order to reduce their
risk of fraud. Replacing entire retail automation systems on oil forecourts
is traditionally considered to be a high risk, high cost and laborious
process.
R&D Technology Solutionz offer a cost effective alternative
solution, using the ITL Enabler and specific software applications to allow
the existing payment terminals to be replaced without affecting the remainder
of the POS (Point of Sale) and automation systems on a retail oil site.
The solution suggested will reduce fraud problems while
providing a cost effective, scalable method of EMV enabling a forecourt.
