No chance for burglars or vandals. Almost more importantly, the jointly designed and developed OPT has been given its approvals by the French “Antiskimming-Antifrauds” association (ASAS). This organization looks at best practice for equipment designed to be as secure as possible against destruction and fraud. Forty percent of all service station fraud takes place at unmanned stations. Pooling the experience of Total in the service station business and Wincor Nixdorf in banking has enabled a real step forward to be made in this respect. The first 200 OPTs are to be up and running in France by the end of 2005.

Also up and running is the next stage of the partnership between the two companies. Future projects will be dealing with mobile ePOS systems for indoor and outdoor applications, environmental control and cash management. Total’s and Wincor Nixdorf’s vision is a central ePOS system on which each and every aspect of a service station can be managed. At Wincor Nixdorf, this vision has a name: i-SERVICE-STATION. i for integrative, innovative and international.