EMVCo Level 1 contactless reader design
Ambimat designs contactless reader hardware for products that will go through EMVCo Level 1 contactless approval, as a paid engineering service for your product. We have designed and manufactured embedded electronics in India since 1982, and the same analogue front-end, antenna and firmware work that goes into our own AmbiPay reader platform is available as reader hardware engineering for OEMs.
Contactless payment approval is a per-product, per-deployment certification exercise. A compliance mark belongs to a specific product in a specific revision, tested at a specific time. Ambimat is not a test laboratory and issues no compliance mark. What we provide is the hardware engineering that a Level 1 approval attempt requires.
Who this is for
- OEMs adding contactless acceptance to a terminal, kiosk, validator or access device.
- Product teams carrying a reference design through to production hardware.
- Fare-collection and access-control integrators who need reader hardware engineered for Level 1 contactless approval rather than bought off a catalogue.
What the engagement covers
- Analogue front-end and RF design, antenna design and tuning, impedance matching.
- Dynamic power control and field performance across the operating volume.
- Reader firmware for the contactless interface, and host-side integration.
- Hardware reference-design work, and engineering against the contactless interface requirements named in your scope, with pre-compliance measurement.
- Design iterations in support of your own Level 1 approval attempt, including pre-test debugging.
- Hardware bring-up, EMS handoff and production test support.
What this service does not cover
- EMV Level 2 kernel development, licensing or integration.
- EMV Level 3 and acquirer-end integration.
- Certification, testing-laboratory or scheme-approval services.
- Payment-application certification.
- Supplying, reproducing or redistributing EMVCo specifications or test documentation.
- Any representation that a delivered design is “EMVCo compliant” or approved. Approval is the product owner’s exercise, against a named specification version, at a named laboratory.
How an engagement runs
A scoping call, then a written scope naming the target form factor, the approval route you intend to take and the interface requirements the design must meet. Engineering runs in milestones against that scope. You own the design outputs.
If you are evaluating existing reader hardware rather than commissioning a design, see the AmbiPay reader platform for complete contactless and dual-interface readers, or the compact AmbiTap NFC reader module for integration into a host you already own.
Talk to our engineering team about a Level 1 contactless reader design.