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CARD4B acquires BEWARE

CARD4B recently acquired BEWARE, an enterprise with software solutions for transport, tourism and culture.

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CARD4B company acquires BEWARE

CARD4B recently acquired BEWARE, a company with software solutions for transport, tourism and culture. 

CARD4B recently acquired BEWARE, a company with software solutions for transport, tourism and culture. CARD4B explains that this fusion between the two companies is part of the expansion strategy that the company has been following, both nationally and internationally. With this acquisition, strengthens CARD4B's offer extending it from "ticketing and payments, to passenger information, planning and operation management, tracking and mobile applications for the sectors of transport, tourism and culture systems." The Portuguese company also notes that, in this way, can significantly increase its production capacity, also widening the scope of its portfolio of solutions to transport, mobility and tourism.

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SESAMES Award

CARD4B won the prestigious international award for the best innovation of the year, the SESAMES Awards.

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SESAMES Award

CARD4B won the prestigious international award for the best innovation of the year, the SESAMES Awards, the "Oscar" of the smartcards industry, in the Transportation category, awarded in international exhibition Cartes Secure Connexions 2013, in Paris. 


http://www.cartes.com/SESAMES-Awards/The-2013-winners
TickeGO

Changing the paradigm in data and fare collection systems.

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TickeGO

Changing the paradigm in data and fare collection systems.

CARD4B is the Technical Leader of EUROPTIMA/TickeGO, with Veolia, OTLIS, Calypso and MTA. TickeGO specifications allow you to build a modular, flexible and cost effective Automated Fare and Data Collection system.

http://www.tickego.eu/

ITxPT

CARD4B is the most recent strategic member of the ITxPT initiative.

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ITxPT

CARD4B is the most recent strategic member of the ITxPT initiative.

The ITxPT (Information Technology for Public Transport) Initiative aims to further cooperate on the implementation of standards for plug-and-play IT-systems applied to public transport. An integrated testbench offers services to specify, test, qualify and showcase IT solutions.

http://itxpt.org/en/members

Rede Expressos mobile APP with ticket sales

Rede Expressos innovates with an APP for public transport information with ticket sales.

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Rede Expressos mobile APP with ticket sales

Rede Expressos innovates with an APP for public transport information, including booking and ticket sales.

myRNE is the first APP in Portugal that allows passengers of a bus service to buy their ticket using a smartphone and getting on board with an electronic ticket in the smartphone.

With a new design, the APP also allows the passengers to know the schedules of the service, access route information, points of sale and many other informations relevant to the passengers of Rede Expressos.

And CARD4B/BEWARE is already working with Rede Expressos on new improvements in the customer service through myRNE APP (Android, iOS).

Gourmet Bus

Haute-cuisine and technoloy for a different sightseeing experience in Barcelona based on mysight solution for outdoor guides.

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Gourmet Bus

Haute-cuisine and technology for a different sightseeing experience in Barcelona based on mysight solution for outdoor guides.

In the summer of 2012 CARD4B/BEWARE embraced the challenge launched by JULIA Travel to be part of an innovative concept in tourism.

Gourmet Bus Barcelona is the fusion of two different services, an haute-cuisine lunch or dinner and a panoramic sightseeing tour, allowing passengers to enjoy Barcelona's points of interest.

Gourmet Bus allows its passengers to enjoy the latest technological innovations in the tourism sector. Every customer is provided with an iPad containing Gourmet Bus appliccation with the following services/contents:

  • Comprehensive information (audios, photographies and texts) on the tour in 11 languages;
  • Map that includes the route and the tracking of the bus;
  • Videos for the children;
  • Video images from the bus cameras (front and rear cameras) connected directly to each ipad;
  • Menu of the dinner service;
  • Costumer and Staff survey;
  • Other informations about the service.

The Gourmet Bus provides a combination of comfort, technology and design. All of this makes it a unique project in the world winner of the best booth in FITUR 2013.

Universal Museum Guide

One of the most complete museum guides in the world allowing you to have a completly different experience in a museum.

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Universal Museum Guide

One of the most complete museum guides in the world allowing you to have a completly different experience in a museum.

The Universal Museum Guide (UMG) solution allows the autonomous configuration of a museum space, collection and exhibitions (permanent and temporary) with the purpose of generate a multimedia tour guide for mobile platforms (smartphones and tablets) with support for indoor location, image recognition and many other innovative functionalities.

It is intended that this solution works as a disclosure and greater attractiveness factor to visit the spaces, promoting and increasing the number of visitors and the attractiveness of museums, a more fluid visit and better communication of all information.

As part of a solution that is intended to be universal, CARD4B/BEWARE developed partnerships with museums and exhibition spaces with distinct characteristics. Currently the project has the following partners:

  • Palácio da Bolsa (Associação Comercial do Porto)
  • Centro Português de Fotografia
  • Casa das Histórias da Paula Rego
  • Museu do Carro Eléctrico (STCP)
  • Oceanário de Lisboa
  • Museu da CARRIS
  • Museu do Carmo

MYSIGHT Lisbon for Lisbon Sightseeing

One of the first hop-on/hop-off city tour with a multimedia guide for smartphones

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MYSIGHT Lisbon for Lisbon Sightseeing

One of the first hop-on/hop-off city tour with a multimedia guide for smartphones.

In 2011 CARD4B/BEWARE worked with Cityrama in the development of one of the first APP's for hop-on/hop-off city tours.

The solution based on mysight platform supports multimedia contents based on the GPS of the smartphone. The solution also supports Augmented Reality and Integration with Facebook.

4PLANNING and MYINFO in UTC bus operator

União de Transportes dos Carvalhos implements a global solution for operations planning and public information

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4PLANNING and MYINFO in UTC bus operator

União de Transportes dos Carvalhos implements a global solution for operations planning and public information.

Based on CARD4B/BEWARE's 4PLANNING and MYINFO, UTC has a web based solution to manage their operations and to provide information to their clients on the Internet and very soon on a mobile APP for iOS and Android.

4PLANNING allows UTC to configure their network, services, schedules and also to manage the roaster of drivers and vehicles.

With MYINFO, UTC has a multi-channel solution (web and smartphones) to inform their clients about schedules, service information, maps and others.

All the solution is integrated, assuring that all data is consistent and a updated at all channels.

Recursos Humanos Altamente Qualificados

Designação do projeto:
Contratação de Recursos Humanos Altamente Qualificados

Código do projeto:
CENTRO-04-3559-FEDER-000040

Objetivo Principal:
Promover a sustentabilidade e a qualidade do emprego e apoiar a mobilidade laboral

Região de intervenção:
Centro

Entidade beneficiária:
CARD4B - SYSTEMS, S.A.

Data de aprovação:
29-08-2016

Data de início:
04-01-2016

Data de conclusão:
31-12-2018

Custo total elegível:
116.943,25 € (cento e dezasseis mil, novecentos e quarenta e três euros e vinte e cinco cêntimos)

Apoio Financeiro da União Europeia:
FSE - 58.471,87 € (cinquenta e oito mil, quatrocentos e setenta e um euros e oitenta e sete cêntimos)

Objetivos, atividades e resultados esperados/atingidos:
Contratação de um recurso humano altamente qualificado para integrar a equipa de investigação e desenvolvimento da empresa:

  • Pessoal altamente qualificado pela empresa – 1
  • Pessoal altamente qualificado pela empresa que se encontra empregado 6 meses após o apoio – 100%.



i4MaaS Project nº 42682 (PT2020)

Designation:
i4MaaS: Innovation for a Mobility as a Service

Project code:
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-042682

Main Objective:
Enhance research, technological development and innovation

Region:
Norte

Beneficiary:
CARD4B - SYSTEMS, S.A.

Approval date:
14-03-2019

Start date:
23-04-2019

End date:
22-04-2021

Total eligible cost:
277.462,36 € (two hundred and seventy seven thousand, four hundred and sixty two euros and thirty six cents)

European Union Financial Support:
FEDER - 138.731,18 € (one hundred and thirty eight thousand, seven hundred and thirty one euros and eighteen cents)

Objectives, activities and expected/achieved results:
The company intends to create a stable R&D core capable of streamlining in-door research activities within Blockchain and NFC and BLE technologies so that in the future it can apply approaches based on matching these technologies into different mobility solutions. The core aims to encompass two lines of research: (1) Study and investigation of the new MaaS paradigm and development of tools supported by Blockchain technology. (2) Research and development of seamless traveling solutions through NFC and BLE technologies.

As a way of consolidating the knowledge acquired in each line, modules will be developed to materialize the functional requirements required for MaaS solutions and Blockchain approaches. These will be later integrated into a prototype for proof of concept, supported in different use cases.

The project development includes the hiring of three new technical staff with qualification level 7 - 1 Blockchain specialist, 1 Software Architect, and 1 Systems Engineer, as well as expenses with external personnel, hardware, software. , and expenses with the certification process of the research, development and innovation management system (NP 4457).

The company in the pre-project year is present in the domestic market and in the USA and France, the same countries where it expects to be present also in the post project.

P-Index - Investment in Gross Value Added R&D (GVA): 37.38%.



C4S Individual Project nº 10371 (PT2020)

Designation:
C4S - Connected Concessions and Citizen Centric Services.

Brief description:
Solution to support authorities and operators in the tendering procedure for the granting of passenger transport services and on the management and monitoring of concessions.

Project code:
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-010371

Main objective:
Strengthening research, technological development and innovation

Region of intervention:
North

Beneficiary entity:
CARD4B - SYSTEMS, S.A.

Approval date:
01-06-2016

Start date:
01-12-2015

Date of conclusion:
31-05-2018

Total eligible cost:
610.047,86 € (six hundred and ten thousand, forty seven euros and eighty six cents)

Financial support from the European Union:

  • FEDER - 471.822,04 € (four hundred and seventy-one thousand, eight hundred twenty-two euros and four cents)

Objectives, activities and expected / achieved results:

  • Development of a solution to support authorities and operators in the process of public tender for the concession of passenger transport services and in the management and monitoring of concessions;
  • Development of a flexible, multilingual, multicultural and multiplatform solution, having all the necessary characteristics to be implemented in the international market;
  • Increase Card4B's international competitiveness through greater penetration of its solutions in foreign markets;
  • Table of Contents – Investment in R & D in Gross Value Added (GVA): 58,14 %



NFC4Sure Individual Project nº 33837

Designation:
NFC4Sure - NFC working for sure, for everyone, for all markets.

Brief description:
NFC and BLE (Bluetooth Smart) cloud-based ticketing solution, using secure element on the device or on the cloud

Funding program:
Sistema de Incentivos à Investigação e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico
Programa Operacional Regional do Norte

Investment period:
Ongoing project from 01-07-2013 to 30-06-2015.

Global investment:
749.976€ (Seven hundred and forty-nine thousand, nine hundred and seventy six euros)

Approved incentives:
452.668€ (Four hundred and fifty-two thousand , six hundred sixty eight euros)



ecoDrive Individual Project nº 24857

Designation:
ecoDrive - Intelligent Eco Driving and Fleet Management

Brief description:
Eco-drive modular and EBSF compatible solution, for on-board computers or android tablets/smartphones, using vehicle and human factor sensors

Funding program:
Sistema de Incentivos à Investigação e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico
Programa Operacional Regional do Norte

Investment period:
Ongoing project from 01-03-2013 to 28-02-2015.

Global investment:
717.926,90€ (Seven hundred and seventeen thousand, nine hundred twenty six euros and ninety cents)

Approved incentives:
473.572,82€ (Four hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred seventy -two euros and eighty-two cents)



Card4World Individual Project nº 32227

Designation:
Card4World

Brief description:
Card4B internacionalization project

Funding program:
Sistema de Incentivos à Qualificação e Internacionalização de PME
Programa Operacional Regional do Norte

Investment period:
Ongoing project from 01-04-2013 to 31-12-2014.

Global investment:
485.604€ (Four hundred and eighty-five thousand, six hundred and four euros)

Approved incentives:
202.281€ (Two hundred and two thousand, two hundred and eighty-one euros)

youLive Mobile Individual Project nº 12015

Designation:
youLive Mobile - Mobility Management Platform

Brief description:
Integrated urban mobility through the usage of a multi-modal smartphone application and detection of motion patterns/modes

Funding program:
Sistema de Incentivos à Investigação e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico
Programa Operacional Regional do Centro

Investment period:
Finished project from 01-01-2010 to 31-12-2011.

Global investment:
624.725,40€ (Six hundred and twenty-four thousand , seven hundred twenty five euros and forty cents)

Approved incentives:
353.580,11€ (Three hundred and fifty-three thousand, five hundred and eighty euros and eleven cents)



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