ADS+ is an innovative project labelled by the following French Competitiveness Clusters: TES and Systematic with also the support of PICOM.
ADS+ is leaded by a Consortium of 13 business companies and research laboratories. It has been started in March 2010 in the APP FUI9 French governmental framework to sponsor innovation.
The duration of ADS+ project is of 25 months. Its main goals are to design and validate a new open architecture for IP POI with thin client POI approach. ADS+ effort is estimated to 750 man/months.
The ADS+ consortium members have contractual agreements with French Gov. Innovation Agency to validate refunding.
Each company brings its own expertise: low cost POI, IP server, merchant services provider, high security protocol and source code control, electronic and hardware protection mechanism, testing tools, standardization …
ADS+ project is structured in 6 sub-projects:
- SP1: State of the art, requirements list (scope, functional, security) economical constraints, global architecture and global definition of use cases.
- SP2 : Detailed architecture specification including ADS+ protocol between thin clients and servers, detailed interface between the main component of this architecture, detailed design of use cases
- SP3 : Unit development of the software and hardware component required by the use cases
- SP4 : System integration of these components for each use case
- SP5 : Use cases demonstration and experimentation
- SP6 : Communication and dissemination
The main deliveries of ADS+ project:
- State of the art survey (payment, loyalty)
- List of requirements (functional, security, performance, economic, ..)
- Global ADS+ architecture specification
- Use cases global design
- ADS+ component interfaces detailed specification, including the protocol between POI and server
- Use case demonstrator and experimentation
- Feedback on the use cases
