The VTAP Advantage
Helping you to create a frictionless ‘just tap’ experience by providing the best NFC reader technology and expertise.
The VTAP Advantage
Helping you to create a frictionless ‘just tap’ experience by providing the best NFC reader technology and expertise.
Why VTAP?
Unrivalled capabilities and features
Universal support for all types of NFC mobile wallet passes and credentials
Extended support for many common RFID/NFC cards and tags
Easy to integrate into any system – platform independent, no SDK required
Famously simple to configure, deploy, use and update in the field
Extensive connectivity options – wide range of host interfaces and protocols
VTAP Cloud option provides remote configuration and unique ‘taps to apps’ gateway
Certified for Apple VAS, Google Smart Tap and Apple ECP2/Access protocols
Available as boxed NFC readers, embedded reader boards and surface-mount modules
Expansive partner ecosystem
NFC Wallet cards and passes
We team up with many mobile wallet pass and credential providers to offer complete solutions, where our customers choose not to issue digital cards and passes themselves.
Cloud integrations
Our growing number of VTAP Cloud application partners deliver end-to-end solutions across a wide range of sectors and applications.
Supply chain options
We have many channel and OEM partners who resell locally and/or incorporate our VTAP readers with their own hardware, software and/or service offerings.
Trusted technology partnerships
We are trusted partners of Apple and Google, licensed and certified to deliver NFC reader hardware that supports their NFC Wallet programs. We support their protocols, including Apple VAS, Google Smart Tap and Apple ECP2/Access. Our long-established partnership with NXP also enables us to support many RFID and NFC technologies such as MIFARE DESFire, NTAG and MIFARE2Go and includes a deep understanding of the underlying technologies and cryptography used in these products. Through these partnerships we also help to drive new initiatives, increase industry adoption and develop new protocols and standards.
We are trusted partners of Apple, licensed and certified to deliver NFC reader hardware that supports their NFC Wallet, with full support for Apple VAS and Apple ECP2/Access protocols as well as Apple GymKit handoff.
We are trusted partners of Google, licensed and certified to deliver NFC reader hardware that supports their NFC Wallet, with full support for Google Smart Tap as well as other supported protocols and credentials in Google Wallet.
Our long-established partnership with NXP enables VTAP to support many RFID and NFC technologies such as MIFARE DESFire, NTAG MIFARE Ultralight AES and MIFARE2Go.
Comprehensive services and support
Essential technical support
All VTAP readers come with comprehensive online resources, expert email support and regular firmware updates.
Optional premium support
Additional benefits including direct access to our product development team, roadmaps and prioritised feature requests are available.
Consulting packages
We support proof of concept projects with detailed advice on reader configuration and integration, pass creation and security, and introductions to relevant partners to ensure a smooth transition to a large-scale deployment.
Engineering services
These range from external antenna tuning and fully customised reader design to custom VTAP Cloud integrations and new RFID card formats and encryption algorithms.
Experience and vision
Dot Origin has been in the business of supplying and developing NFC and RFID solution for over 25 years. Our VTAP readers represent over 5 years of continuous development, refinement and innovation. All of our accumulated knowledge and expertise has been channelled into the design of the VTAP family of products and services. Our products are built to address our customers’ real needs, and around our vision of a future where digital identities, in mobile wallets, power frictionless services, secure access control and seamless interactions with the places they visit.
Boxed readers
Simple to configure and swift to deploy with wide range of connectivity options
VTAP boards
Reader boards and modules to integrate and embed into any system
VTAP Cloud
Powerful reader management and unique ‘taps to apps’ connectivity
What our customers say
“We were surprised at how quick and easy it was to implement NFC check-in, and the VTAP readers have been bullet-proof reliable.”
Brian Shoemaker
Senior Director of Innovation, Life Time
“Barcodes and QR codes are full of friction and can be easily copied. The NFC ‘just tap’ experience, the security, and how it gracefully works with the mobile wallets is something that people are getting very used to doing.”
Ryan Masanz
Chief Technology Officer, Anytime Fitness
“VTAP100 readers have been the perfect upgrade to our membership management system, delivering frictionless mobile access and check-in, with Dot Origin providing careful guidance and expert support throughout.”
Lucile Devictor
Marketing Director, Keep Cool
Ben Rose
Owner, The Surrey Coffee Company
Brands that trust VTAP technology
VTAP for success
40+
countries
54k+
tap points
20m+
consumers
VTAP is a product of Dot Origin, designed and manufactured in the UK.
VTAP technology has been developed in partnership with Apple and Google, and integrated with a global ecosystem of wallet pass, CRM, loyalty and access control platforms.
VTAP products are Apple VAS (ECP 1.0), Apple Access (ECP 2.0) and Google Smart Tap certified.
For over 25 years, Dot Origin has provided trusted solutions to government, educational, and commercial organisations of all sizes worldwide, directly and via integration partners.
If you’re looking for helpful NFC advice, talk to the experts at Dot Origin!