Control 3G, 2G or 2G+ in public transport – without additional costs – without development effort
AMCON (29 November 2021) – To ensure that vaccination, recovery, or test certificates presented by passengers are authentic, AMCON customers can now verify the validity of COVID certificates directly using their inspection devices. The standard feature External Apps in the AMCON.SYSTEM allows for the controlled distribution and approval of external apps via the backend system directly to the inspection devices. This type of installation prevents the devices from accessing the internet independently.
Testing for all common corona apps
With the help of the CovPassCheck app, which the Robert Koch Institute provides free of charge to authorities and businesses, the vaccination, test, and recovery status of passengers can be checked in compliance with data protection regulations. Passenger service staff scan the QR codes on passengers’ smartphones or printed certificates using the inspection device. If the certificate is genuine, a green checkmark appears on the display for the staff member. In the case of a forgery, a red X is shown. This way, transport companies are protected against fraud. The verification process of the EU digital COVID certificates works even without an active internet connection.
Advantage for AMCON customers: free of charge and ready for immediate use
There are no additional costs for transport companies and associations using AMCON inspection devices, and the function can be deployed immediately. “The External Apps feature on the inspection devices was an internal requirement for the AMCON.SYSTEM, which our customers have already been able to use since 2016, for example, for timetable information,” says Bernhard Bruns, Product Manager for AMCON.MOBILE at the Cloppenburg-based system provider.
For enforcing sanctions, transport companies can independently define special “Corona EBE” (increased fare penalties) within the EBE module. Damage types, mandatory and optional fields for data collection, and receipt layouts can be easily and quickly configured in the backend system and distributed to the inspection devices. No intervention from AMCON is required here either.
