Ayman Ashour
Analyst · Matthew Hoffman
Thank you, David. I would like to start out with the strategic outlook part of our presentation today by a slide that reminds you of how we're looking at our investment in our business in 3 broad categories -- the hyper growth or megatrends area, the growth of our addressable markets and the growth of our existing markets. Just a refresher, we see NFC and cashless payment as new megatrends.
We see expanding our ability in the transponder business beyond tags and tickets into identity cards and PVC type products, expanding our strength in cyber security into physical access and convert physical and cyber security, be it products or SaaS based offering, as another important pillar of extending our addressable markets.
I would like now to give you within this context, give you just a quick update on where we stand. On the NFC product side, we aim to be the go-to place for NFC. So we have launched consumer direct personalization capability, added innovative products such as NFC magnets, dual NFC QR code tags, in-store stickers be it dual tag with QR and NFC or a dual-sided NFC sticker with the ability to engage on either side of a glass window. We have also launched our secure tag management platform, which we have been working on for a significant amount of time, really over the last 12 or 18 months. And the secure tag management platform aimed to personalize content for users for loyalty, advertisement or social networking purposes.
Our tag management platform is aimed at the first comprehensive solution for addressing dynamic content on NFC tags and for actionable business information about the consumers who are tapping on the tags to pick up information from retailers, service providers and others or for consumer to consumer actionable information in connection with social networks, such as a check in or a tweeting, or an ad for specific mention in a Twitter function. We are seeing strong interest in this beta platform from our key customers such as universities, retailers, stadium operators and resorts. As we have said before, the NFC solutions market is still not here. The investments we are making now are not expected to result in revenue in this year or in the near term, but rather to continue to strengthen our position in this emerging potentially hyper-growth market.
Most of the above items I’ve just discussed, be it NFC products or the tag management platform have important IP protection, many with patent-pending status. I talked earlier about the cashless payment side of our business. But suffice to say we continue to expand our number of users, our amount of transaction and strengthen our in-house manufacturer product portfolio both on the transponder and the reader side. In terms of our addressable market expansion, you heard us at Identive talk about our patent-pending proprietary technology known as SmartCore.
SmartCore uses our own RFID inlays to make thinner, more durable cards in a more environmentally friendly way to generate perfect or virtually perfect surfaces. We now have 12 design wins with SmartCore and we continue to expand our sales activity in this area, and also expand our product offering. On the converged access, this is the convergence of cyber security and physical security products area. We started in November 2011 building on some unique technology from idOnDemand. We started building a focused team on this area. This is an area we were not able to address before.
Finally, we had our first revenues in June and expect stronger performance from this area going forward. In terms of our existing offerings and markets, we’re pleased that we have started real volume shipments of transponders into Japan for loyalty and payment applications and more orders coming from Japan. We also have mentioned earlier had a strong Q with the U.S. Government with approximately $6 million in business. I will now move on to the outlook for Q3 and Q4.
Frankly, we expect the citizen ID business in Europe to continue to be dull for the rest of the year. We expect U.S. Government business to show some seasonal improvement during H2, but there remains uncertainty with the budget cycles of course and we’re all aware of what’s going on especially in an election year. But we do expect that our U.S. Government business for the year will end up being higher than the $19 million we had last year and closer to the $23 million as we’ve indicated before. We see the second half as important for our Converged Access Group, which I just mentioned earlier, ramping up after the first sales in June. We are expecting Cashless Betalen users in Holland to reach over 200,000 by the end of the summer and continued expansion of locations.
With the start of the soccer season, we expect Payment Solution to be strong, particularly in the last 4 or 5 months of the year. Payment Solution has some excellent cash generation qualities, and we expect to benefit from those during the second half of the year. We expect an uptick of the NFC tagging activity with the launch of newer handsets.
For the idOnDemand and the SaaS business, the next 2 quarters are very critical for us. We have a large number of outstanding domestic and international pending quotes and trials, and we’re hoping that some of those were backlogs. In terms of specific guidance for Q3, we expect Q3 sales to be in the range of $24 million to $27 million with an EBITDA of minus $700,000 to plus $700,000. The non-GAAP EPS of approximately minus $0.03 to $0.02 per share.
We expect to be cash generative operationally, but we’ll be using more cash and working capital and funding of debt obligations, so we see cash dipping by a further $2 million by the end of the Q3. We’re obviously keen to work ourselves out of the current growing concern language in the Q, and hence our exploring opportunities to strengthen our cash position by a modest amount in the range of $5 million to $10 million with the focus and absolute priority on non-dilutive measures.
We are happy and comfortable that in the last 3 months, we’ve stabilized our cash position, so it makes it easier for us to be able to raise the cash on acceptable terms. I would like now to thank you and turn the call over to the operator for Q&A. Back to you, operator.