Inconvenient indeed.
And yet another application for the windmill I feebly tilt at:
putting bar-code readers on mobile phones. With a little
stick-on label under each vending machine item,
you could just swipe and push a button on your phone --
MORE convenient, if anything, than fishing change out
of your pocket.. The bar code could have not only the
item identifier, but a locator code for the machine itself,
so you don't need to make this an LBS.
Marketing application: you could still swipe when an
item was out of stock, to indicate "Yes, I'd pay 10
yen more if you'd just keep 'em coming at this
location."
But while we're on the subject of wireless-enabled
vending machines -- how about IR/bluetooth links
to them, so you could make cut-rate calls THROUGH
them (perhaps VoIP over the powerlline). I.e., use
vending machines as payphones through your
keitai? Vending machines being so ubiquitous here,
they could practically be base-stations themselves.
-michael
----- Original Message -----
From: <drew.freyman@nokia.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:17 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Cmode experience
> Buying goods with GSM is not for production, just demostration.
>
> On the vending machine is a 'free dial' number which you then call, go
> through an IVR, and then the machine is signalled to credit you, then you
> press the button and oila, you can buy a coke. The same problems occur
> with this system as with the cmode system:
> 1. Network costs are too high (and are not offset through significant
> savings through elimination of the cash handling function--after all the
> trucks still have to go around and replenish the drinks, the cash handling
> is just a small incremental cost of this function)
> 2. Convenience is not achieved
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Ian Morrison [mailto:ian@synapsx.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:13 PM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Cmode experience
>
>
> >One thing you can't do with Cmode at this time is to purchase
> >a Coke and charge it to the mobile phone bill - which is what
> >the hype is often about: using the mobile phone as a purse.
> >I guess the reason for this is security.
>
> One area in which the GSM world is ahead of DoCoMo? To my recollection
you
> can use SMS to buy cokes (and, here in Singapore, various local brews)
from
> vending machines in many trials around the GSM world. The Infocomm
> Development Authority (IDA) is also developing standards for cross
operator
> billing system interfaces.
>
>
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