Mobile payment starts to revolutionize the way we pay. Regardless of already existing contactless communication standards such as NFC and EMVCo, the payment service providers and terminal vendors are still coping with teething problems resulting from the large number of smartphones, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, and technologies used. Test solution manufacturer COMPRION and test service provider P3 have teamed up to develop a dedicated test tool – the nano tracer – making sure that NFC based payment transactions can be monitored at the POS.

Once collected, COMPRION’s monitoring software processes, displays and analyzes the communication data. Ralph Kamp, Product Manager at COMPRION explicates, “Our nano tracer helps engineers to identify and solve issues that might be observed in the field. The analyzing software visualizes if communication failures were caused either by the mobile phone or the POS terminal.”

The smartphone case will be available as a standard for Samsung Galaxy S6 or iPhone 6S but can also be customized for other smartphones.

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