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- For the first time ever in a parking system, SKIDATA System 440 supports payment and gate passage at car parks with credit cards
- Munich Airport: first project for car parking management at a major international airport
- Launch of Event Access solution for trade fairs and exhibition centres
- First installation of Event system in Dusseldorf
- International breakthrough: expansion of cooperation with Swatch
- Swatch acquires exclusive license from SKIDATA for manufacturing and worldwide sale of RF-based SWATCH Access watches
- Introduction of System APT 450 as ‘flagship’ in car parking segment (more than 2,200 installed worldwide by 2005)
- French smartcard specialist Gemplus acquires majority stake in SKIDATA.
- Work finishes on development of Ski System 370 (which enjoys great success to this day); the system triggers a sustained upward trend in contactless technologies for ski access
- SKIDATA enters access systems for stadia and arenas with first installation of new Event System 550.
