June, 7th, the 2010 National Golden Card Project Outstanding Achievement Award Golden Ant Award ceremony was held in Beijing. Insigma s mobile handset citizen card project was selected by the nation s Golden Card Project Coordination Steering Committee as winner of the National Golden Card Project Outstanding Achievement Award Golden Ant Award.
Insigma has been deploying citizen card projects with mobile payment applications in multiple cities including Hangzhou, Ningbo, Jiangyin, and Tieling. This is the third consecutive year for Insigma to be awarded such prestigious awards by the National Golden Card Project Office, marking Insigma s leading position in the citizen card technologies.
Entering the Mobile Payment Era for Citizen Cards
Insigma s mobile handset citizen card project (citizen card with payment enabled mobile phones) provides citizens in cities such as Tieling with convenient payment features. Citizens may have their mobile handsets SIM card replaced with a specialized UIM/SIM card at the mobile service provider s operation office to activate mobile payment function for their citizen cards. In addition to serving as a normal mobile phones supporting phone calls, SMS, and net surfing, etc., the mobile handset with citizen card function also supports payment for public bus, shopping, parking, etc.
The mobile handset citizen card relieves citizens the headaches of having limited locations for recharging their cards. In addition to the existing citizen card recharging stations, citizens can leverage multiple mobile handset recharging vehicles and locations, and hence, greatly reduce the time and cost for recharging their citizen cards.
With the mobile handset citizen cards, residents in the city of Tieling are not only able to enjoy public services such as medical care and social security, but can also use the cards for multiple purposes such as physical access control, personal identification, purchase of meals at the canteen, payment for public bus fare. The Tieling mobile handset citizen card is also powered with all the features of a credit card as a result of its alliance with the Tieling Commercial Bank. Citizens of Tieling can make purchases with their citizen cards at associated member shops. With their mobile handset accounts bundled with their citizen card accounts, online shoppers can make remote payments and complete online transactions by using test message, WAP, and client software.
With various value added features, the citizen card enabled mobile phone is also a jack of all trades. Citizens can use the two dimensional bar code feature it their mobile handsets to scan product price, and product identify. Member shops promotion information, real time traffic information, smart car parking guidance information, and community s convenient services to citizens can all be made available at the citizens fingertips.
Building on the concept of becoming smart + connected + collaborated, Insigma s citizen card solutions are designed to provide city managers with a more convenient, and efficient means to service citizens.