Company

Overview

Alcineo is located in La Ciotat, in Provence, near major players of the smart card industry: Gemalto, Inside Contactless, ST Microelectronics, Atmel...
Alcineo is specialized in the development of embedded software implementing  smart card technologies and security.

Strategy

The smartcard market and payment terminal is still increasing, more than 15 % a year. Market's trend leads on:

• Higher interoperability for electronic transactions (International EMV and SEPA Standards)
• Contactless payment expansion
• Stronger security requirements (PCI PTS 3.0, PCI PA DSS)
• Emergence of new technologies.

In this favourable context, our strategy is focused on innovation by ever-growing portfolio of products and partnership to remain close to market needs.

Skills

Alcineo, a strong expertise in:

• Smart card technologies (contact/contactless...)
• Smart and secured objects (USB protocol, cryptography...)
• Development for embedded systems (8, 16, 32 bits microcontrollers , C/C++, Java and assembly languages...).

Partners

Cooperation with partners has always been an important part of Alcineo's business and technological strategy. Through our partners, we reach global markets and jointly offer products and services.