Experts of NORBIT told about development and deployment of the solution on Sailfish Mobile OS RUS on TAdviser SummIT

2019: Creation of network of mobile payment point-of-sale terminals based on Sailfish OS

The NORBIT company (enters into group of CHEEKS) took part in TAdviser SummIT 2019 which took place on May 29, 2019. Specialists of the company provided development and shared experience of implementation of mobile application based on Sailfish Mobile OS RUS ("Aurora").

At IT public sector in a session the associate director of department of own solutions of NORBIT Boris Yarygin and the Head of Department of IT support financial of business and operational management Russian Post Maxim Kozhokar told about creation of network of mobile payment point-of-sale terminals based on the Sailfish Mobile OS RUS platform ("Aurora").

Yarygin Boris and Kozhokar Maxim during the performance at a session "IT in a Public Sector"

Sailfish OS RUS maintains functionality of a remote workplace — secure access to corporate e-mail, messengers and information systems. Use of mobile technologies allows to execute typical transactions in any geographical point and to instantly obtain key data from places. The main users of mobile application are the employees working "in fields": technical crews on remote objects, the staff of customer services and delivery services, specialists performing remote sales, merchandising and so forth.

"The NORBIT has big practice on implementing solution on Sailfish Mobile OS RUS in Russian Post. Specialists from 27 Russian regions use the application. The platform is very demanded as most state companies has tasks requiring transfer and storage of personal data, information of different degree of privacy, the different commercial information — Boris Yarygin, the associate director of department of own solutions of NORBIT noted.

2017

6 thousand mail carriers equipped with smartphones for remote rendering financial services

• 2016 September – the beginning of the pilot
• 2017 May – the tender for purchase of 15.000 smartphones
• 2017 June – Signing of strategic partnership
• 2017 October – delivery of 6500 INOI R7 smartphones within the government contract

Russian Post continues to equip mail carriers with mobile mail point-of-sale terminals for rendering financial services at home or at office of the client. So, according to the data of the mail operator provided in January, 2018, the number of terminals was increased from 10 thousand to 16 thousand.

6 thousand smartphones Inoi work based on the platform Sailfish Mobile OS RUS entering century register of the domestic software. The service is provided in 73 branches of Mail Russia.

Russian Post continues to buy mobile mail point-of-sale terminals for mail carriers

Mobile fiscal registrars and the mobile mail-point-of-sale terminals (MMPOST) in general represent smartphones with pre-installed applications which allow to accept at clients payments for housing and communal services, communication services at home, to make out an insurance, to pay the credits or other services. The service for payment acceptance via mobile mail point-of-sale terminals is most convenient for pensioners, people with disabilities and also inhabitants of the remote localities.

Mobile fiscal registrars and mail - point-of-sale terminals (MPKT)

The project is implemented since December, 2014. By data for 2017, monthly using MPKT about 1.5 million payments from the population were accepted. Thanks to expansion of number of MPKT from 10 thousand to 16 thousand the number of the payments accepted in a month is going to be doubled.

Use of mobile payment terminals will increase availability of financial services to Russians, will reduce load of post offices and will increase labor productivity of mail carriers. In the first half of 2018 even more than 8 thousand mail carriers will receive such devices, as a result a total quantity of the mobile payment point-of-sale terminals used in work will exceed 24 thousand devices — the CEO of Russian Post Nikolay Podguzov noted.

Message about plans of purchase of smartphones

Russian Post is going to equip all the mail carriers with mobile devices for rendering services to the population. The CEO of Russian Post Dmitry Strashnov told TAdviser about it in May, 2017 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

In total in Russian Post more than 125 thousand mail carriers from which more than a half - in rural areas, representatives of the organization specified TAdviser work.

On a photo (from right to left) Dmitry Strashnov, the CEO of "UST" Boris Krasnovsky and the CEO "The open mobile platform" Pavel Eyges on signing of the memorandum of cooperation (the Photo - TAdviser)

Using the smartphone and the cash register which is used together with it making together the mobile point-of-sale terminal, mail carriers render financial services to citizens at home: accept payments for housing and public utilities, penalties of traffic police, subscriptions for different editions, make out an insurance, accept payment on the credits and many others. Payment is accepted only by cash so far, and here on site rendering service fiscal checks are issued.

Purchase of 15 smartphones on Sailfish OS

In May, 2017 Russian Post carried out purchase of 15 thousand mobile point-of-sale terminals for the mail carriers which are turning on smartphones based on Sailfish OS. This OS in Russian Post was tested for about a year. Even earlier, in 2016, the organization purchased about 10 thousand mobile point-of-sale terminals with the smartphones working running Android OS for mail carriers and couriers.

Use of mobile devices is a technology break in terms of development of Russian Post as we speak about development of services using modern technologies, - Dmitry Strashnov noted in a conversation with TAdviser. - It is a serious step which will be scaled further.

Further Russian Post is going to buy for device mail carriers based on Sailfish OS. On PIEF Russian Post signed the memorandum of cooperation in information technology field with ESN companies (the major shareholder of the Finnish company Jolla, the developer of mobile Sailfish OS) and "The open mobile platform" (Sailfish Mobile OS RUS developer). Jointly they are going to work on development of the mobile solution based on Sailfish OS taking into account requirements of Russian Post.

Moreover, according to the CEO of "The open mobile platform" Pavel Eyges, the smartphones which were already purchased earlier on Android are also going to be transferred to Sailfish OS.

Eyges explained TAdviser that when rendering services which are provided by Russian Post it is necessary to observe statutory requirements on personal data protection. He noted that to provide it on devices from Android OS, it is necessary to buy in addition and install on devices different additional resources on data protection which considerably increase the cost of the final solution.

In turn, based on Sailfish OS the finished solution providing necessary data protection without installation of additional software is delivered, he says: in it there are built-in information security tools. Besides, in February, 2017 this OS received the certificate of FSB.