INSIDE Contactless, a provider of contactless chip technologies based in Aix-en-Provence, France, has announced a partnership with Paris-based MobiNear, a provider of mobile communications solutions.

According to a news release from INSIDE Contactless, the two companies will install INSIDE's near-field communication capabilities on MobiNear Box kiosks, allowing customers to use their contactless cards and NFC-enabled mobile phones to access MobiNear's PayGO platform. PayGo offers a range of applications, including payment-processing, loyalty-card functions and ticketing.

Christian Chabrerie, founder and chief executive of MobiNear, says the company chose INSIDE's technology because it was easy and cost-effective to integrate:

The MobiNear Box kiosk is our first solution to include NFC in addition to Bluetooth, BlueNFC and Wi-Fi interfaces, and we chose to work with INSIDE because they are the world leader in NFC technology. INSIDE's NFC reader module provided a turnkey solution we were able to easily integrate into our MobiNear Box. This significantly reduced the development time and cost required to add NFC capabilities to our platform.