(keitai-l) Re: Vodafone does FeliCa

I thought this 'real-time' processing discussion was interesting
and (perhaps like Martyn) had thought it must already be done
in real-time already as well. So, this afternoon just for fun I did
a little test on my Suica card. It was near empty so re-charged
with 1,000yen and got a 'transaction history' statement printed,
the total balence on the card was now 1,030yen. I went to the
Newsday stand and bought a can of hot Royal Milk Tea, 140Y
and then trodded back to the same Suica machine to check
the balance, statment showed (2mins L8r) was 890yen on my
card. Now that would seem based on this the transaction was
in fact processed on the network in at least psydo real-time!

Lars.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Martyn_Williams@idg.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 8:51 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Vodafone does FeliCa


> Arjen,
>
> Yes, I agree. Perhaps "easily" was the wrong word to use. It would require
> a huge system with probably big machines and lots of processing but the
> question was if it's possible to do something like that using the Felica
> platform, and I think it is. Why wouldn't it be possible? Each card has an
> ID and each card interacts with machines during its use, be them Suica
> readers, Edy readers or whatever, so why would it be impossible to track
> them in real time? It's just a question of building the back end
> processing, or so I believed.