Smart by our customers on cards fast lane at the store
In Hong Kong, “smart” Octopus cards have a hand in detail hundreds of spots, people pay for food and bus tickets without fumbling for filing their documents or credit cards on each cashier.
Five years ago, the City adopted the Octopus card system uses smart card technology, as their High-Tech New York version of Metro card to pay for transit fares. Users wave of the value flow electronic card that stores money in a computer chip, there is a player that prefers the price.
But most of the city of nearly 7 million people consume the card with the micro-processor brain to pay for all purchases of the city in different places, like supermarkets, as the boutique park Ocean Park arcades for public pools and parks.
However, as comfortable as users of these cards, obtaining, with a deposit of $ 50 and a first stored value, they are not available in this country. This technology has been slow to fish in the USA, where companies are not convinced they should invest in new scanners and maps.
It was isolated in programmes, particularly on university campuses and Corporate. Some campus students in the use of smart cards as a combination school ID cards debit-key-cafeteria-library-laundry cards.
Among the pioneers, FreedomPay, Pennsylvania, in-house built Debit Card systems for businesses, including Holtsville, Symbol Technologies, freedom Pay reader installed in its cafeteria earlier this year on improving the flow of traffic.
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