SMART CARD VENDING

Smart cards are electronic devices which resembles a great deal with the credit cards. However smart cards replace the magnetic storage unit of the credit card with an embedded microprocessor to store information. A typical smart card has three separate memory banks, two of which are ROMs (read only memory) and one is RAM (random access memory) - 8 kilobytes of RAM, 346 kilobytes of ROM and an additional programmable ROM with 256 kilobytes of memory, controlled through a 16-bit microprocessor. There are two general categories, contact and contact less.

The usage of smart cards has been widely popularized in the vending industry. Their use can be found in corporate campuses, colleges and universities, correctional facilities, hospitals, hotels, cruise ships and laundry facilities. They have revolutionized the vending industry by making cashless vending possible. If your establishment already uses ID cards, then you can easily convert to a single smart card, personnel, students and indeed authorized visitors can access and pay with the smart card for a wide variety of services typically found on educational and corporate sites.

Smart card in Planet Antares has lot of advantages. Vandalism has been controlled with their usage. Now cash is no longer required to be carried by the route people. In addition to this there will be no more jams, sales can be tracked by site, there would be no coin counting room and no more shortages. Use of smart cards has made it easier for working people and people who are on a tour. They generally don’t carry cash and in need they can just make use of the smart cards and get whatever they want. The cost of the card equipment for your Planet Antares vending machines is about the same as for coin and bill changers.

Almost all vending card systems in use today provide an interface between several different economic streams—such as between debit card and vending account; bank or institutional account and vending card; or even cash and card account.