Taxitronic allows you to pay for the trip with a touch of the samsung mobile on the meter
A bit of context to start. For some time, even years, people have been talking about the great possibilities offered by NFC ( Near Field Communication ) technology incorporated in mobile phones. Today, this is no longer an unknown system, and there are not a few users who already know that just by putting two terminals equipped with this chip in contact, it is possible to pair it to transfer files of all kinds, as well as to equip profiles with information precise. One of the functions that had been talked about for a long time, as a tenth, was to be able to use the mobileto make payments. Thus, the telephone would behave as a kind of credit card "" or debit "". Among these options, being able to pay rates for transport services was especially interesting.
Today we can talk about it as a reality in our country, and its name is taxitronic. What we are going to find with this is a very simple system that will make it possible to pay races in taxis equipped with compatible receivers. To do this, you just have to touch a specially designed surface with the smartphone or tablet that we carry with us. Taxitronic is a system that is already beginning to be offered for installation in taxi fleets that are interested in updating with this service, and it does so with the collaboration of the South Korean firm Samsung and the British-based operator Vodafone.
At the moment, the taxitronic technology installation campaign is underway, and although the payment per contact function with NFC- equipped terminals is not yet enabled, its inauguration should not take too long. Once it is operational, the terminals developed by Samsung that we could use for this purpose "" for example, the Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 of seven inches or Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, among others "" must download an application from Google Play. Specifically, the Smart TD utility. After this, the device used by the customer will communicate with the receiver that has the taxi installed, so that the ride can be paid using the source of payment that the user has configured.
For their part, the companies and taxi drivers responsible for the vehicles that equip the system will have a terminal fully integrated with the rest of the devices already incorporated in the cars, also offering them additional services, such as GPS, telematic management of the fleet and even a translator of languages. In addition, those taxis that are new and install taxitronic technology from the first moment, as well as those that allow an update of the equipment according to what this service offers, could have a reduction in integration costs of up to 50 percent..
Among the functions that taxitronic offers for taxi drivers is also the creation of a Wi-Fi point to which customers could connect for free, both to navigate from their smartphone or tablet once they get into the car, and to be able to perform the communication between the Smart TD application that serves as a payment gateway for the race.
