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SUICA is common in Japan and used much like a credit or debit card but for
many applications. Japan Railway
companies, such as JR
East (outside Japanese link), accept the SUICA card for boarding fare.
This smartcard does much more than make boarding trains easier.
Below is
information about a full report on SUICA Smartcards
available for purchase from
Eurotechnology Japan. On their website you will find more information
including sample pages, current pricing and the date it was last updated.
SUICA is a multi-application smartcard platform which is used in Japan for
rail tickets, e-cash, building access and other applications. With 8
million users and in the near future more than US$ 5 billion in
transactions per year, SUICA promises to become one of the important
e-cash systems in Japan. The present report describes the SUICA system in
approx. 70 pages with about 27 photographs.
Table of Contents:
- 1. Executive Summary: SUICA smart cards What is the meaning of SUICA
- 2. What is SUICA and why.
- SUICA functions
- Data Security - Certification
- 3. Quantitative data and time line.
- 8 million SUICA users within 2 years of introduction
- User numbers growth since 2001
- Some basic data: main applications, usage area, number of cards
issued, total issued and stored value (for 2002)
- SUICA time line
- JR East VIEW card time line and link to SUICA
- SUICA test introduction and results
- 4. From 2006: Combining SUICA, Passnet, and the Tokyo area joint bus
pass.
- Overview
- Management of the joint IC card
- Key data and statistics
- Expected transaction volume estimation
- 5. The SUICA platform
- SUICA overview and explanation
- The SUICA platform
- Fare gate for SUICA and magnetic tickets
- Contactless reader/writer for SUICA at railway station faregate
- Terminal for SUICA cards at rail station
- Linking SUICA Cards with the VIEW credit card
- 6. SUICA as prepaid electronic cash
- Why electronic cash
- Requirements for electronic cash
- SUICA competitor for e-Cash: Edy overview and explanation
- Cash register (POS) with SUICA reader/writer
- Images of stores which accept SUICA during the monitor test
period, and after introduction
- 7. Mobile SUICA field trial as part of DoCoMo i-Mode FELICA Preview
Service
- Mobile SUICA field trial, description
- Schematics of using a mobile phone with SUICA functionality at a
railway fare gate
- Mobile SUICA as part of the i-mode Felica Service
- SO504iC (SONY Ericsson SO504i + FeliCa smart-card)
- 8. SUICA's Technology: The FeliCa platform
- FeliCa description
- Inside view of Felica (with pictures of cut open FeliCa cards)
- FeliCa and standards, communication standards
- Technical data of selected FeliCa cards (anti-collision type,
ordinary and with magnet stripe for non-contactless read/write)
- FeliCa compared with other IC-Cards
- VISA, SONY, Infineon alliance
- "Pasoli" contactless secure reader/writer for FeliCa cards and
connection to PCs or cash registers
FeliCa Networks
- "i-Mode - FeliCa preview service"
- Overview and explanation
- Listing of participating companies
- Applications tested (summary outline)
- 9. FeliCa for transportation: Octopus, Suica, ...
- FeliCa for fare collection
- FeliCa as a de-facto standard for transportation payments
- FeliCa: Octopus card (Hong Kong)
- Felica in Hong Kong, Singapore, New Delhi and Bangkok
- FeliCa based transportation tickets in Japan
- Images of selected FeliCa based cards in Japan
- 10. Summary: SUICA smartcards
Full report available from
Eurotechnology Japan
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