Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 05:07:58 GMT Server: Stronghold/1.3.4 Ben-SSL/1.3 Apache/1.1.3 Content-type: text/html Content-length: 9013 Last-modified: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 21:33:52 GMT
Multi-Application Smart
Cards
A major construction site in Hong Kong has implemented a contactless smart card system for their entire operation. The cashless site accepts smart cards as the only form of access by employees as well as payment for food at cafeterias, vending machines, and room rental fees. The card is loaded with the employee's weekly pay, and has an additional purse for the user's own cash. This system has cut down a tremendous amount of paperwork and cash handling, enabling a streamlined payroll procedure and the ability to serve over 8,000 meals hourly. Even more important: all other types of cards and cash failed to perform in this very harsh, demanding environment.
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A bus system in the Los Angeles area collects fares with a Racom Systems, Inc. contactless smart card system. Passengers purchase smart cards loaded with bus fare, and as they board the bus, the card is waived over the controller. This system has cut bus dwell time considerably because passenger boarding is more efficient. In addition, passengers and drivers no longer have to carry cash, and therefore the threat of purse, wallet, and driver robbery is eliminated.
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A parking facility in Lubbock, Texas, issues Racom Systems, Inc. contactless smart cards to its customers for access into the parking area and for fee collection. The Racom system allows customers to enter the facility by presenting the card at the gate. Upon leaving, the customer again presents the card where it is debited the parking fee or fees are accrued to the customer's account for monthly billing. This system has brought the parking facility real-time user demographics, lowered overhead costs, and significantly decreased waiting times at the parking gates for fee collection.
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Ticketless travel is a fast growing approach to streamlined airline ticketing, check-in and boarding procedures. A Racom smart card used in this application offers improved service and competitiveness to the airline, while it reduces queues and speeds up the boarding process for its customers. A smart card can hold all of a passenger's flight information as well as ticket number, seat selection and check-in and boarding status. The passenger can use the smart card at a check-in kiosk at their convenience, pick up a ticket ordered over the phone, or via a PC, or purchase a ticket at the kiosk. Customers can also confirm their flight, select their seat, check-in and board with the card. Lastly, the use of a smart card reduces the risk of lost tickets, tracks passengers and their baggage, and reduces the risk of lost luggage.
A smart card approach to airline ticketing offer airlines new marketing opportunities. Loyalty programs, such as frequent flier clubs, increase market presence and visibility and can be tied to other promotions that include clubs and services. Co-marketing opportunities between the banking community and the airline industry can also create shared cost for promotions. In addition, the extra smart card purses can be used for related tie-ins with other business associated with the airline industry. These approaches generate great savings for the airline because they reduce staffing requirements, ticketing costs, and ticket and counterfeiting.
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Wherever machine readable and writeable data must stay with equipment, inventory, work in process, facilities, or almost any object, the solution is Racom LFM Industrial Tags. The tag, with Racom's RF interface and FRAM memory, can be written with information about contents, time, personnel, instructions, repair or any other kinds of data. Tag data can be easily updated with a controller connected to a local workstation or mainframe. If employees carry an ID with Racom smart card technology, the controller can read personnel information from the ID and write it into the tag as an automated record of access. The applications continue...
Facilities/Equipment Management
Maintenance of equipment frequently requires information such as PM instructions that must be available on site. With Racom's smart card technology, this information can be stored on the equipment, updated from a portable controller, and records can be automatically updated on the tag. As needed, the central database can also be updated with records from the portable controller. Where record-keeping is crucial, the automation of this system eliminates errors inherent in manual record keeping.
Industrial Automation
Moving information, such as customer maintenance and repair data, and work-in-process, from a central database to an actual item, significantly reduces time and database complexity. Manufacturing instructions and records on a Racom contactless smart card can move with the work in process for automation. Warranty and service information can be stored and updated on the item in a form easily accessible to approved personnel. In the manufacturing process, status, personnel, and product changes can be kept on the product in a machine interactive format without burdening a central database.
Warehouse Inventory
Distributing data on bins, palettes, or individual products improves efficiency and simplifies database management. Personnel badge information is easily written into Racom tags, and then placed on bins or products for accurate record keeping. Product movement between sites or out of the range of the central database can still be easily tracked and automated.
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