Smart community infrastructures – Guidance on smart transportation with QR code identification and authentification in transportation and its related or additional services

Scope

What is ISO 37180 about?

ISO 37180 discusses smart community infrastructure. This international standard promotes the implementation of QR codes in transportation and its additional services to ease accessibility for commuters. ISO 37180 guides transportation and its related or additional services using quick response (QR) codes for identification and authentication in data transfer, to make their services both convenient and advantageous for customers and service agents while protecting them from cheating and illegal action in data transfer.

Who is ISO 37180 for?

ISO 37180 on QR code identification and authentication in transportation and its related or additional services is useful for:

• Community leaders
• Local government authorities
• City planners
• Transportation departments
• Transportation service providers

Why should you use ISO 37180?

Quick Response (or QR) codes are widely used worldwide due to their extremely large capacity for data storage and data transfer instead of barcodes. In the transportation field, QR codes have been used for over 20 years. However, their application is limited since the identification and authentication procedure with QR codes in data transfer takes over one second. In cities, a ticket inspection gate should communicate with 60 customers per minute for their ticket validation at rail stations. As the number of people delayed due to ticket processing in the concourse increases, this results in more risk leading to passenger injuries.

ISO 37180 describes QR code identification and authentication to be applied in such services. These processes aid in achieving fluidity enhancement, controllable anonymity, non-forgery, non-repeatable data transfer and non-repudiation. ISO 37180 guides to implement QR codes in smart transportation to effectively identify data senders and recipients.

The security and performance guidelines provided in ISO 37180 help you to improve transportation and its related or additional service fields, such as money transfer services for payment and charging pre-paid cards.

ISO 37180 works to satisfy the UN-Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially goal 8 Decent work and economic growth, goal 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure, goal 10 Reduced inequalities, goal 11 Sustainable cities and communities, goal 12 Responsible consumption and production and goal 15 Life on land. © British Standards Institution 2022

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