NXP Semiconductors and Xiaomi have announced they are deploying technologies to implement mobile transit services across China’s largest metro stations and public bus lines. With Xiaomi’s recently launched ‘Mi Pay’ platform that features NXP’s embedded secure element (eSE) technology, customers are expected to be able to make secure transactions from both bank and transportation accounts. Users can add their China UnionPay and public transportation cards to the Mi Wallet app in Xiaomi mobile MIUI system, eliminating the need to bring their wallets.
Xiaomi has introduced a mobile phone equipped with NXP’s NFC and eSE earlier this year. Now the two partners are collaborating to deliver mobile transit services in China’s cities. Since the initial launch of the mobile transit services in Shanghai and Shenzhen in June, activation rates achieved double digit growth among commuters, NXP said. At the beginning of September, the two companies extended the adoption of the Mi Pay app in both banking and public transportation cards for the launches of mobile transit services in Beijing, Guangdong Province, Wuhan and Suzhou.
