Specifications

Featuring a service layer, the Open Mobile API Release 2 enhances the transport API to provide a more intuitive interface and increasingly powerful functionality to make it easier for developers to connect their applications to the Secure Element within todays feature phones and smartphones.

By choosing to implement the SIMalliance Open Mobile API, handset manufacturers will be able to enrich their application portfolios through the introduction of a host of mobile services that demand the highest levels of security and identity protection afforded by the Secure Element.

For developers this common API eliminates the need to reengineer applications to each specific device by delivering a single, consistent specification and interface across multiple operating systems. By making the move, application developers will be able to manage costs, and reduce time to market and increase revenue.

In addition, a common set of reusable high level services as crypto, file management, discovery, PKCS#15 and secure storage, allows developers to allocate time and resource to developing the functionality of their application rather than focusing on the complexities of integration with the device’s Secure Element.

Released on 24.11.2011  Download

The SIMalliance Open Mobile API Specification describes how a mobile application running on an open smartphone operating system can access a SIM/USIM or any Secure Element. Release 1.2 of the specification contains the handling of a transport layer that gives applications the possibility to transmit APDUs to Secure Elements.

Released on 9.3.2012  Download

This document specifies the requirements to implement a unified XML schema for SIM cards prototyping and testing: the SIM Profile Mark-Up Language (SIMpml). It has been defined to simplify the transfer of card profile configuration information and the approval of test and production cards, with the intention of replacing the existing various text-based documents. It is firmly believed by this forum that this approach will reduce the failure rates, decrease test loops and minimise human interactions, since XML is a common used way of transferring structured data. This format allows any Card Vendor or Network Operator to specify and implement any SIM card electrical profile, since it strongly relies on Smart Card Specifications such as 3GPP, GSMA and SIMalliance. The document is based on the UXP 1.4 (U)SIM XML Profile (UXP) Template Sheet, the output of an initiative created by a dedicated forum set up in 2007 under the initiative of Telefónica O2 UK. This forum comprises Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Oberthur Technologies, SanDisk and Telefónica O2 UK.

Released on 30.6.2010  Download

Specification offers operators an interoperable platform for quick, mass market mobile services delivery with the coming availability of a S@T Test Suite to test the correct implementation of S@T specifications in SIM cards for new services interoperability purposes.

Released on 21.4.2009  Download