EPAS (Electronic Protocols Application Software) is a non-commercial cooperation initiative launched in
Europe which aims at developing a series of data protocols to be applied in a
point of interaction (POI) environment. The project intends to address the three following protocols :a terminal management protocol;a retailer application protocol;an acquirer protocol.The main objectives common to the three protocols are:protocol interoperability : each protocol is designed in such a way as to be independent of the external device and the POI;independence of the system architecture and the integration level of the POI within the retailer application protocol;independence of the communication support and low level protocols : each protocol is independent of the network connection and will address both wire and wireless connections.
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