Thales E-Payment Terminals

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Chip manufacturer Infineon has installed around 140 Thales electronic payment terminals to serve 6,500 employees at their new premises in Munich, Germany. The company has installed Thales e-purse payment terminals at various service facilities on-site, such as the canteen, the hairdressers and food and drink vending machines. The contactless access card of each employee carries a chip with e-purse functionality, which allows employees to pay for their services. As a result, waiting times at busy locations, such as the canteen’s cash registers, have been drastically reduced. The terminals process some 10,000 transactions per day.
 
The introduction of electronic payment at Infineon has been warmly embraced, with more than 90% of all payments now being made electronically. “The implementation of e-purse functionality on employee access cards has been a complete success. In the canteen we are able to process six payments within one minute. Even at peak hours, we no longer have substantial queues,” said Wolf Ruediger Moritz, Vice President of Business Continuity at Infineon.
 
The chip is loaded at a loading station and during payment the relevant amount is deducted from the employees’ access card. For paying at the canteen, a cash register system from Schaupp is used in connection with the AVT. compact payment terminal, which is also used in vending machines. More than 100 coffee machines have also been equipped with the unattended AVT. controller module from Thales.
 
Infineon’s multifunction access card meets both payment functionality and security requirements, as, alongside its e-purse functionality, the chip carries information for managing the access of employees and visitors to restricted areas. The key advantage of the system is that the payment process is convenient, simple and highly secure, while reducing complicated administrative processes at the same time.