Formed in 1991, the aim of our company is to serve the needs of the smart card world. Utilising our specialist knowledge on smart cards and EMV migration, we are now a leading International supplier of EMV chip and magnetic stripe test equipment and software.
Smart Card Testing & Analysis Tools which are ISO, EMV, CQM and Payment Scheme accredited
Solutions that enable our customers to provide proven and certified payment cards, devices and mobile applications; and tickets to their customers
Used for successful technical development, failure analysis, compliance verification, and for manufacturing quality assurance
Barnes Smart Solutions develops, enhances and promotes the P3 card issuance system
Maintain the highest standards in card personalisation quality control
EMV personalisation validation testing enables issuers and card bureaus to validate and pre-certify their cards against the latest payment scheme specifications, as well as the issuer’s business requirements. This prevents the costly production of invalid EMV cards and delays in the formal card certification process.
Essential for card and payment application development and certification testing
To ensure new EMV products comply with the chosen payment scheme’s personalisation requirements, test laboratories can perform pre-certification checks using Barnes approved tools. This speeds up the formal payment scheme card approval process and reduces laboratory-testing costs.
Card manufacturers and payment schemes
Payment application developers
Financial institutions, banks and card issuers
Test laboratories
Personalisation bureaus or TSMs
EMV chip and magnetic stripe personalisation data validation
EMV migration
Product development
Payment scheme certification
Improves manufacturing quality assurance
Reduces laboratory testing costs
Speeds up formal payment scheme card approval process
Reduces time and costs of EMV Certification
The Barnes CPT 3000v3 is a Personalisation Validation Tool (PVT) widely used by companies involved in the manufacture, test, certification and issuance of EMV cards. It is used to enhance quality assurance practises, and ensure EMV cards meet stringent payment scheme specifications when sent for formal certification testing. As with all Barnes Test Tools, the CPT 3000v3 is easy to use providing various levels of reporting and analysis to meet the differing needs of its users.
• With a simple card insertion, performs quick and accurate tests of personalisation data in single or multiple applications on the EMV chip and magnetic stripe to ensure data is correct and valid according to issuer templates/ card profiles and all major payment scheme specifications and standard profiles.• Test results include Pass / Fail data displays and detailed test result logs with hyperlinks to the EMV and payment scheme specifications to allow the user to quickly identify and resolve problems.• Supports all EMV payment applications: --CPT 3000v3CL: personalisation validation of contact, contactless and dual interface EMV cards to ensure cards contain consistent information over both contact and magnetic stripe interfaces and personalisation complies with Visa (VIS), Mastercard M/Chip, Amex AEIPS, JCB, Discover/ Diners, UnionPay/ PBOC and National payment scheme rules such as GIE CB, Interac, RuPay, mada, JetCo, plus mobile NFC and compliance with Visa payWave and Mastercard PayPass™ / Advance, Amex ExpressPay, J/Speedy and many others. --CPT 3000v3ML mobile payment validation over SWP interfaces. Test scripts validate against Visa VMCPS, Mobile MasterCard PayPass and Amex ExpressPay Mobile.• Developed in collaboration with Visa, Mastercard, Amex and other payment schemes; used by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, JCB, major banks and card bureaus globally.• Barnes customers benefit from regular test scripts updates made available via the Barnes website.
Enables batch testing and QC for issuing valid EMV cards
The Barnes CPT Batch is a Personalisation Validation Tool (PVT) widely used for Batch Testing by companies involved in the manufacture, test, certification and issuance of EMV cards.
The new Barnes 60H Motorised Triple Interface Reader working with Barnes CPT Batch software allows you to gain efficiency when testing batches of cards. The user can stack up to 60 embossed cards for testing and free up staff to perform other work while the tests are performed without further user intervention.
Develop EMV test scripts for proprietary applications
Chip card issuers developing more advanced proprietary payments applications or issuing cards embedded with multiple applications such as EMV and loyalty, e-security and mobile payments choose the Barnes CAT 3000v3. It adds to the test, analysis and reporting capabilities of the CPT 3000v3 to provide test script development. This allows the user to easily write custom scripts to meet their more complex test requirements.
• Adds to the functionality of the Barnes EMV Personalisation Validation Test Tool (CPT 3000v3) to provide test script development capabilities whatever the payment application.• Users can easily and rapidly develop test suites for a wide variety of chip card applications such as EMV, Loyalty and E-security.• Ideal for chip card developers, manufacturers, bureaus and issuers who are looking to validate more complex proprietary payment applications, or test multi-application products.• Developed in collaboration with Visa and Mastercard, and used by Visa, Mastercard, major banks and card bureaus globally.
Ensure you deliver the highest quality magnetic media, cards and tickets
Companies who aim to deliver the highest quality magnetic media products to their clients choose Barnes Magnetic Stripe Analysers. Magnetic stripe producers, card and ticket manufacturers and bureaus use them for ISO and CQM testing, production quality control, encoding equipment maintenance and development.
Reduce costs and risks of issuing invalid EMV chip cards, magnetic stripe media and all types of magnetic tickets.
ISO and/or CQM quality control testing of magnetic stripe media and encoded magnetic stripes is required by all companies involved in the manufacture, personalisation and issuance of EMV chip cards to ensure the global interoperability of chip card and payment devices.
Tape and card manufacturers
Test laboratories
Personalisation bureaus
QC testing in production and pre-certification testing of EMV cards
Chip vendor quality control
Reduce the costs and risks of issuing invalid EMV chips cards
Improve inward quality control and supply chain management of chip vendors
Most accurate analyser for the widest range of magnetic media
The Mag-Tester Revo is the most accurate magnetic stripe analyser available today for testing media of all types, shapes, sizes and thicknesses including cards, tickets, ATBs and bank books. Certification standard measurement accuracy is achieved through a linear optical encoder, automated operations and powerful data analysis tools, making the Mag-Tester Revo the first choice of Certification Laboratories worldwide, as well as for manufacturing quality control.
• Widely used by magnetic tape and card manufacturers and test laboratories for quality control and product development.• Delivers high-precision testing of unencoded and encoded HiCo, LoCo and 650 Oersted magnetic stripes to ISO, CQM and others standards.• Tests all different shapes, sizes and thicknesses of magnetic stripe media, including cards, tickets, ATB, Edmundson tickets, bank passbooks and other documents.
Fast, reliable and accurate ISO and Mastercard CQM testing
The Mag-Tester 3000 range offers powerful magnetic stripe quality control analysis of encoded and un-encoded magnetic media on cards and tickets – HiCo, LoCo and 650 Oersted. As the industry has come to expect from Barnes, the Mag-Tester 3000 range delivers the highest levels of test result accuracy and convenience to any magnetic stripe card and ticket manufacturing, bureau or QC environment.
• Fast, reliable and accurate magnetic stripe quality control analysis for ISO and Mastercard CQM testing of unencoded and encoded HiCo, LoCo and 650 Oersted magnetic stripes on cards and tickets.• Easy to use providing various levels of analysis displays, diagnostic facilities and reporting to meet the differing needs of its users.
• Suitable for ISO ID-1 and CR80 magnetic stripe cards and tickets.
• Various models available with different levels of functionality to meet customers bespoke test requirements.
Assure magnetic stripe durability and long life
Magnetic stripe appearance and read-back unreliability due to wear and abrasion is a serious concern. Card Issuer reputation can be damaged by worn and unreadable magnetic stripes. Magnetic stripe cards must be tested to ensure compliance with ISO/IEC industry standards aimed at exposing weaknesses in magnetic stripe wear resistance. The WEAR-Tester 3000 enables tests on all types of magnetic stripe cards and TFCs (thin flexible cards) in compliance with these exacting ISO/IEC standards and CQM #3024#.
• Tests ID1 magnetic stripe cards and TFCs (thin flexible cards) to ensure compliance with ISO/IEC industry standards aimed at exposing weaknesses in magnetic stripe.• A freestanding unit which enables automatic testing; once initiated, the test is run through to completion.
