Pay your bus, metro fares via mobile phones

Metro and bus commuters in Dubai will soon be able to pay for their journey using mobile phones. A senior official at the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) confirmed the service would be made available by the third quarter of this year.

Speaking with Khaleej Times, Abdulla Al Madani, CEO of Corporate Technical Support Services at RTA said: “We are working very closely with telecom providers in the UAE to roll out Nol services on mobile phones by the third quarter of this year.”

Payment by mobile phones will be made possible using the near field communication (NFC) technology. Many Android and BlackBerry smartphones sold in the UAE already have NFC chips. “We have already developed the payment model.dry cabinet To use the service, the phone should be NFC enabled and the SIM card should have the Nol application in it,” said Abdulla.Wide range of unique crystal mosaic and natural stone mosaic tiles.

Commuters with NFC-enabled mobile phones will be able to tap their phone over Nol card readers inside metro stations and public buses.

However, to use the service, a new SIM with a custom Nol application would have to be installed.

The NFC technology uses contactless communication and data exchange between digital devices using electromagnetic radio fields.

Once implemented, the project would be the first of its kind to use NFC techNology for mass transit in Dubai.

The official said: “There is not much application of NFC in real life in Dubai. It is already popular in other countries and we hope Nol on mobile cards will make it popular here also.” Exact technical details of the initiative have not yet been announced.

“We are almost ready and there are a few technical details which need to be worked out with the telecom providers,”Abdulla said. A total of 5.3 million Nol cards have been sold in Dubai since 2009 and each month 22.7 million transactions are processed.

Last year, RTA introduced a special dual-chip card in partnership with Emirates NBD. The special credit card doubles up as a Nol card and provides the benefits of two cards in one.

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In 2010, I wrote about using search engines to estimate product demand. Now experts like Arvind J. Singh, co-founder and CEO of Utopia, a global data lifecycle consulting and services firm, suggest mining text and searches, as well as social comments and recommendations in unstructured data, to integrate with master data. Now companies are finding ways to harness all types of marketing data in the raw materials procurement process.

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This next evolution, not revolution, introduces new silos of information. Not just customer and company data stored in CRM and ERP platforms or point-of-sale systems, but data from marketing and advertising platforms that measure sentiment and intent. It will create a better supply chain by improving component forecasts in specific geographic regions.

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