Perfect NFC technology last mile? E-Bus card launched mobile bus card recharge Services

using NFC near-field communications

E-Bus card is a can help users in the mobile phone (Android) Recharge Bus card mobile applications, the current app can identify, including Beijing, Shanghai and other bus cards in the mainland, but the recharge service also only support Beijing public transport.

E-Music uses NFC near-field communications technology to support NFC-enabled handsets. After the user installs its app, only need to put the bus card in the mobile phone NFC contact area, can complete the recharge. Currently supports NET silver as well as Alipay two ways of payment. E le charge also revealed that will be with Alipay to launch exclusive cooperation in the Alipay "My Life" page to join the E-music service interface, user-friendly.

E-Lok charge has been for "Hebei card online Recharge" to provide technical support. But the use of online recharge service requires offline hardware devices to complete the specific recharge behavior, so for ordinary users, and then buy the hardware alone will appear to outweigh the gains. And in this year, there are a variety of NFC-enabled smartphones appear, e-Lok Fully aware that this is a very good opportunity, so with Beijing Card signed an exclusive strategic cooperation agreement, on-line mobile bus card recharge services.

Talking about the current problems, E-Bus card marketing director Xu Dapeng told me, because now the smartphone on the NFC chip provided by different companies, so in the specific use of the process there are some problems, there will be a variety of things can not work properly. For example, I tested the charm of the Family MX and Galaxy Nexus, the charm can identify the Beijing bus card and the correct display of the balance, but can not recharge, Nexus is completely unresponsive to bus cards. However, Xu Dapeng says these issues are being addressed.

E Le has recently completed the 20 million Yuan Angel round financing, the team in 50 people. In the future, based on tens of millions of of the active bus card users, E-Lok is willing to provide bus card recharge to bring a large number of users, and explore the subway scene for mobile payment and more possibilities. The most important job is to speed up the user experience and increase the number of users.

The NFC technology that the smartphone carries has appeared for many years, because the standard is not unified, each kind of interest group mutual game and so on many kinds of reasons, each big manufacturer always has not solved the new technology "last kilometer"-"application" problem, so that the excellent technology has not been used by more users. and e-Bus card is in the application of technology into the direction of an attempt, at the same time it with the bus card itself has a large number of users to cut into the vertical payment scene, is also a very interesting idea.