Comments on: Contactless Smart Cards for MRT

By: ka edong

ka edong — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:09:01 +0000

Right. You know the technologies well, Winston

Maybe there’s a different budget for the MRT and the LRT2. I’m sure there’s also a different administrator.
I believe there were pilot tests for contact-less smart cards for LRT2. I don’t ride LRT2 so I don’t know if they use it now.

Also, the technologies available at the time the MRT was built circa1999/2000
was different from the technologies available to the LRT2 circa 2004/2005.

Auto-ticketing vendo machine — Hahaha … MRT has some of that too! di nga lang gumagana (pero naka-on pa rin yun, ha).

By: Winston Quesang

Winston Quesang — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:17:51 +0000

hi!

Wow, this is great! But observed that your post and replies are already a year or 2years old already, how come our mrt still have long lines? hehehe!

BTW, RFID is not the right technology to be implemented in transportation kind of solution. Contactless Smart Card & RFID, yes they have the same technical usage concept, but are different in implementation. RFID have longer range of RF, so it might read by other machines that can deduct twice, thrice of your load, hehehe! Yeah, people usually get confused about it, between the 2, there are really other technical differences actually…

RFID is more used as a parallel solution with Barcode Technology rather than smart cards.

Anyway, grabe, 2years… Or is it that MRT doesn’t have enough capital for the project? Or they put it on hold since government will buy them in the near future?

LRT2 was able to implement the Auto-ticketing vendor machine, why mrt wasn’t able to do it?

By: Kay

Kay — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:45:19 +0000

“It has nothing to do with Bluetooth, IR or RFID.”

It is RFID technology.

By: ka edong

ka edong — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:26:55 +0000

hi ysa, Opo, gumagana na. Heto po: G-Pass for the MRT

By: ysa

ysa — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:48:57 +0000

wow! finally, they have thought of a way in solving the looooong queue at the mrt. it will be a great help to us commuters should it materialized. hmmm…i wonder if the testing stage is over. is it operational now ka_eds?

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By: The Unlawyer

The Unlawyer — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:30:51 +0000

[...] Its been several months since Technobiography spotted these things – which suspiciously look like those contactless RFID terminals used by Singapore’s EZLink or Hong Kong’s Octopus Card – installed on top of some turnstiles used in Metro Manila’s rapid transit system. [...]

By: ka edong

ka edong — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:51:18 +0000

Hi matanglawin,

I don’t agree.

I think it was a logistics, supply chain mistake by LRTAdminstration. If they were able to supply (for example) double the number to tickets that they cancelled (those erap tickets), there wouldn’t be a problem, right?

Nevertheless, it still remains an un-resolved issue because they still have ticket shortages every so often.

and yes, agree, public ang naghihirap dahil sa kanilang kakulangan.

ka edong

By: matanglawin

matanglawin — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:41:11 +0000

the stored value card was unavailable for some time because gma ordered the mrt management to recall all value cards with erap photos on it. nagselos eh. yan tuloy public ang naghirap…