Train Ticket Gates to Track Kids

PiTaPa is an RFID-based train ticket system that is used by railway companies (including Hankyu railways, Nosei railways, and Keihan railways) in the Kansai region of Japan. These three railway companies announced they together will test a service that uses their RFID-enabled train ticket gates for tracking kids.

When a kid passes through RFID-enabled train ticket gates using an PiTaPa train pass, which is an RFID card, an SMS message is automaticaly sent to their parents.

The pilot test started at an elementary school in the city of Takaraduka and a cram school in Kobe on September 1 and will last till the end of October.

reBlogged from RFID in Japan

emily | 10:14 AM | Barcode Technologies / RFID Tags / NFC |
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