Post by celebi on Feb 3, 2012 9:06:51 GMT -5
RFID e-purse to help cruise through toll plazas
The Hindu
Do you think this will work in India?
I sure do hope so - this is a nice milestone. But, we are in a society where we are not even able to encourage people to adopt online payment system. In my understanding, the security concern is still very high with respect to using online payment services to pay bills or buy tickets. Unless people can be confident on technology and the security associated with it, I think it is tough to convince people to use it.
I do agree that making sure that a technology is fail-proof at the very start itself is absolutely impossible, but the Government fails to provide us with a safety net in case of identity theft or any such security issues. Has anyone felt the pain of doing rounds to the ombudsman when the ATM does not disburse the said amount but the money is deducted from your account?
At the risk of sounding like a pessimist, all such technological advances are moot unless we have a good infrastructure and policy in place first.
The Hindu
The Union Government will soon start a pilot project of electronic toll collection (ETC) using the radio-frequency identification device (RFID) on National Highway 1 between Delhi and Amritsar.
The pilot project is taken up before the pan-India launch of the unified ETC across national highways maintained by the National Highways Authority of India, said C. Kandasamy, Director-General (Road Development) and Special Secretary to Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, here on Thursday. The ETC, if found successful and is embraced by most of the vehicle users, is bound to ease long queues at toll plazas across national highways in the country.
The pilot project is taken up before the pan-India launch of the unified ETC across national highways maintained by the National Highways Authority of India, said C. Kandasamy, Director-General (Road Development) and Special Secretary to Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, here on Thursday. The ETC, if found successful and is embraced by most of the vehicle users, is bound to ease long queues at toll plazas across national highways in the country.
Do you think this will work in India?
I sure do hope so - this is a nice milestone. But, we are in a society where we are not even able to encourage people to adopt online payment system. In my understanding, the security concern is still very high with respect to using online payment services to pay bills or buy tickets. Unless people can be confident on technology and the security associated with it, I think it is tough to convince people to use it.
I do agree that making sure that a technology is fail-proof at the very start itself is absolutely impossible, but the Government fails to provide us with a safety net in case of identity theft or any such security issues. Has anyone felt the pain of doing rounds to the ombudsman when the ATM does not disburse the said amount but the money is deducted from your account?
At the risk of sounding like a pessimist, all such technological advances are moot unless we have a good infrastructure and policy in place first.
