Pay For Parking Using RFID Technology

According to Laurie Sullivan of TechWeb News, a company based in Vancouver called Digital Payment Technologies Corporation is in the process of implementing RFID technology into its pay-by-cellular phone service:

“The pay-by-cellular phone service running on IBM Corp. technology put Digital Payment Technologies on the radar of many cities and universities nationwide by letting drivers dial a toll-free telephone number to initiate an account, and provide their parking stall numbers to pay by phone with an ATM card, MasterCard, or Visa. With so many banks issuing cards with embedded RFID chips, Digital Payment Technologies is adding the ability to wave cards before an RFID reader rather than to swipe its magnetic strip”.

This pay by phone service is has being tested in many cities across the United States such as San Francisco and West Hollywood. For more information about the pay by cellular phone service, visit this website.