Developing a payment system using contactless smart card

Dissertant

Najm, Ayman Jamal

Thesis advisor

Farhan, Hazim A.

Comitee Members

Aqil, Misbah M.
al-Bahadili, Husayn Ismail

University

Middle East University

Faculty

Faculty of Information Technology

Department

Department of Computer Information Systems

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2010

English Abstract

Contactless smart cards appeared several years ago in the form of electronic tags.

Today they are used in the fields of electronic ticketing, transportation and access control.

More recently they have started to be used for electronic payment transactions.

A contactless smart card is a smart card that can communicate with other devices without any physical connection but by using Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) technology.

What are the advantages of contactless payments over other methods of payment magnetic stripe cards and cash? Why are traders moving to deploy this new form of payment? Why are consumers willing to change the way they pay? The answer is speed, convenience, and security techniques.

The system that implemented in this thesis used the idea of card based payment systems to bringing a cashless society, this achieved through using the contactless card payment system.

As a case study, we implement the system in the Middle East University Cafeteria, and can be extended in future to cover all other payment services.

The system is improving the security and will success tackling the problems of fraud, which gives greater confidence for using the system.

In addition, it uses biometric techniques (such as fingerprints) to clarifying the candidates and authenticates the user prior to making a purchase.

Main Subjects

Information Technology and Computer Science

No. of Pages

95

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-694579