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Test tool / Level1-2-3 test tool

Card Spy

Easily evaluate transactions, anywhere.

Capture and analyze the communication and measurement of the performance between a smart card and a terminal.

Card Spy

Easily investigate and troubleshoot cardterminal communication.

Card Spy offers an unmatched solution for analyzing cardterminal communication. lt is both contact, contactless and allows to investigate any problems that may occur during this interaction.

It provides an ideal tool for troubleshooting interoperabilityrelated problems between cards and card accepting devices, such as EMV® payment terminals (POS or ATM), eMRTD readers and AFC readers. Card Spy supports crossindustry data interpretation on contact and contactless communication. 


Key benefits

  • In-depth spying of communication between the smart card and the terminal.

  • Assists in fault cause analysis of interoperability problems.

  • Gain insight to application logic with comprehensive reports. 

  • Save time through fast analysis.

  • Easy to use. 

Key features

  •  Provides automatic interpretation of smart card commands and responses.

  • Display data exchange between a smart card and card acceptance device in a clear, logical, understandable manner on-screen.

  • View cross-industry data interpretation on contact and contactless communication.

  • Works with industry-proven hardware SmartConnect (contact/ contactless), SmartLink Box (contact) and SmartWave Box (contactless).

  • Card Simulator is included in Brand Test Tool (BTT).

How it works.

Card Spy provides an automatic interpretation of smart card commands and responses. It shows the exchange of data between a smart card and card acceptance device in a clear, logical, understandable manner on your screen. 

What's in the box.

Available hardware.

  • Contact & contactless spying: SmartConnect.

  • Contact spying: SmartLink Box.

  • Contactless spying: SmartWave Box.

Specifications for contactless cards. 

Generic

  • ISO 14443: Provides low-level data interpretation for type A or type B card protocols, Radio Frequency -on and Radio

    Frequency -off events.

Payment

Provides application data layer interpretation according to the following specifications:

  • American Express ExpressPay.

  • Interac Flash.

  • Mastercard PayPass.

  • Visa payWave.

E-identification

  • ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization): Provides application data interpretation according to ICAO specifications.

Transit

  • MIFARE DESFire: Provides application data interpretation according to MIFARE specifications.

Specifications for
contact cards. 

Generic

  • ISO 7816-3: Provides low-level data interpretation for T=0

    and T=1 protocol, clock changes and supply voltage events.

  • ISO 7816-4: Provides application data layer interpretation
    according to the ISO standard payment.

Payment

Application data interpretation adheres to EMVCo specifications. The data interpretation also includes the proprietary data elements specified by the payment schemes, such as Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Discover, etc.
* EMV® is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries and an unregistered trademark elsewhere. The EMV trademark is owned by EMVCo, LLC.

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