Singapore, 3^rd October 2011 – Watchdata, a worldwide leader in innovative data security and smart card technology, will demonstrate innovations around its theme of ‘Smarter Lifestyle, Secured by Watchdata’ at CARTES from 15-17 November 2011 at the Paris Nord Villeprinte exhibition center. Back at the show for the 7th year, Watchdata’s focus on practical solutions will help accelerate the adoption of mobile and smarter payment to cater to changing consumer demands.

Watchdata will showcase a range of innovative products that bring greater convenience and payment security to a new level. The four key areas of focus are:

• Mobile payment: A complete range of mobile payment solutions will be shown, including SIMpass™, a technology that has been adopted by more than 5 million users worldwide and SDpass™ which is helping more and more banks, transport operators to achieve their goals.


• Intelligent transportation: Watchdata’s smart transportation solution covers all aspects of the transportation industry including urban transit (bus, subway, MRT, LRT and taxi), trans-city (highway and train) and logistics. Watchdata’s solution was selected for the Second Generation Electronics Road Pricing trial in Singapore. Learn more about such success stories on how to counter urban traffic congestion at the showcase.


• Trusted finance: Highlighting secured payment features, fraud prevention and data protection, Watchdata will demonstrate its one-stop EMV solutions as well as the PKI-based online banking solutions which have numerous successful deployments worldwide, especially in Brazil in 2011.


• Internet of things: Watchdata has extended its industrial solutions to an even wider environment, including smart payment of vending machines, secure application running environment in telematics and remote monitoring in healthcare. Its innovative M2M solutions are used to extend customer service beyond conventional methods.

“With the global momentum on mobile services and the constantly changing market conditions, our customers are compelled to look into innovative methods to enable payment for their users. Watchdata’s range of mobile payment solutions are agile to tailor to today’s dynamic market, while allowing our customers to offer new and convenient services to their end-users,” said Mr. Michael Yu, Group VP and President of International Business of Watchdata.

Watchdata will be presenting solutions and technologies at the following conference sessions at CARTES 2011: