 The project is to be considered as a cornerstone of another initiative ("ERIDANE") initiated at the European level with several partners belonging to the EPAS Consortium.The aim of the ERIDANE project is to achieve a common set of standards for hardware and software components to be used in point-of-sales retail environments.As such, EPAS complements adequately the work carried out by the ERIDANE project which essentially focuses on the inner structure of a POI terminal used at retailers' point of sales locations.