The European R + D + I project mobiwallet It will allow you to pay through your mobile for all means of transportation. The objective of the Mobiwallet project is to develop a unified mobile payment platform for any means of urban transport. Mobiwallet will allow you to pay for the different services with any smartphone and access offers, discounts and other advanced features in a personalized way in real time.
The Mobiwallet project has a budget of € 4.3 million and is co-financed through the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Program (CIP). This project will offer users and cities new technologies. to a smarter, more sustainable and economical mobility, and that allow them to be more energy efficient and move towards the development of a smart city.
The unified platform for the collection and administration of mobile payments that the project will develop mobiwallet It will make it possible to integrate the different schemes used by the operators of the different means of transport, making it easier for the user to pay for tickets from their mobile bus, metro, tram, public bicycle, as well as the taxi and other means of transport. The platform will even allow you to pay with your mobile public car parks and limited parking areas, in the case of using a private vehicle.
The citizen may rtop up your balance at any time and place in the city, as well as access to updated information on the state of transport. In this way, MobiWallet will make it possible to create a unified urban transport system and it will facilitate intermodality, the combined use of different means of transport, focusing especially on the needs of users with reduced mobility.
In addition, through different tools, some of the Business Intelligence, the new solution will offer citizens in real time advanced services such as:
- a personalized journey planner
- offers or discounts, to promote certain types of greener transport
- reservation and payment of urban parking spaces, to facilitate private transport; applications to turn the taxi into a multi-user mode of transport
- personalized services to promote the mobility of people with disabilities or mobility problems.
Thanks to these new services, MobiWallet will improve transport efficiency and help reduce energy consumption, promoting more sustainable mobility.
Pilot projects
Santander, Florence, Novi Sady and the West Midlands have been the cities chosen for the first pilot experiences of the project, which will be carried out by the multinational consulting and technology company Indra leads the consortium of 15 companies and public bodies that, organized into four national groups from Spain, Italy, United Kingdom and Serbia.
MobiWallet will have the participation of hundreds of users in each pilot city and will collect and analyze their comments to ensure that the application of technological solutions is well founded on the real needs of citizens and that the solutions provided achieve maximum impact, in such a way that they give rise to the transport systems of the future.
Indra also coordinates the Spanish group formed by Banco Santander, the University of Cantabria, the Santander City Council and the technological SME TST. The Italian pilot is run by Intecs, with the support of Aleph, GEST and the Florence City Council. The British group is led by CENTRO with the collaboration of TTR. Lastly, the Serbian pilot is run by DunavNet, in partnership with JGSP Novi Sad and the city of Novi Sad.
In the case of the pilot project in Santander, Indra will lead its development, which will deploy a single payment system for the different transport services: bus, public bicycle, taxi and private ferry service (Pedreñeras) in the city. The solution will include specific payment and use services for citizens with disabilities or reduced mobility.
Cutting edge technologies
MobiWallet will validate a wide range of technologies to define the criteria for creating a mobile transportation payment solution ideal, scalable and adaptable, so that it can meet the needs of public administrations, both in small urban and industrial areas and in more complex metropolitan scenarios and even in extremely heterogeneous operating environments.
Thanks to the use of labels and other elements with NFC technology (Near Field Communication), this pioneering project will enable any smartphone with an Internet connection to become a payment terminal at minimal cost. These labels or smart cards, with their corresponding online infrastructure and contactless readers, allow the system to be endowed with much greater functionality and intelligence than any currently existing unified payment solution.
The use of 2D two-dimensional barcodes Together with an augmented reality interface, it will represent another solution with minimal cost, but which will allow the citizen to offer innovative value-added services. Finally, a payment web portal will make the developed solution more versatile, since it will facilitate access and payment to any user without the need for a state-of-the-art smartphone, simply through an Internet connection.
The project will also develop and test different platforms for the collection and administration of interoperable payments, based on standards for the management of interoperable rates (IFM), such as ISO 24014 and EN 15320, so that the developments carried out in each case in the solution finally proposed.