Your Mobile = Flight Boarding Pass?
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Well with 280+ million mobile phones in India one can expect this device to be a centrepiece of most business strategies when it comes to paperless transactions and access oriented businesses. So a company named Siemens Airport Systems Laboratory in Bangalore is working out a technology which would replace the physical boarding pass with 2D Bar Code that you recieve on your mobile phone!
Though in the early stages of development the company expects a pilot run by early next year. According to Mr Shankar Head of Aviation Systems, Siemens Information Systems Ltd “We still need to finalise a carrier for this technology as it would require a GSM operator. Some infrastructure issues also need to be worked out like reader for the mobile phones at the airports and a server somewhere,” he said.
The above development just speaks volumes of the potential of the mobile devices. It started from voice, text, imagery and moved on to a computing experience and now the mobile phone is moving towards a access oriented device. I wont be surprised if one’s mobile phone could later be mandatory (and maybe replaces a PAN card?) and be used for other things like financial credibility calculation (in case of loans, credit cards etc).
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