• Tapango in the news on Wordpress, one of the fruitful results of our participation to WIMA
• Several upcoming events:
  
  • 22 - 24 April 2009: Visit our booth of Tapango and listen to our speech at WIMA Monaco (MC)
  • 5 - 7 May 2009: Visit our booth (joint with BUZY.BE) at the Futures Parlor of Kiosk Europe Essen (D)
  • 28 May 2009: Visit our booth in collaboration with Artesis Hogeschool on the WCTI-fair Antwerp (B)
• November 26, 2008 : First-of-Kind Solutions and Drastic.be engage in a partnership to prepare the introduction of electronic contactless wallets.
• October 21, 2008 : First-of-Kind Solutions and Artesis High School University Antwerp sign partnership for a proof-of-concept of electronic contactless wallets, as a step-in for a long-term co-operation between both parties.
• October 16, 2008 : IWT approves the support of the work-out of a business plan and pre-development of the electronic contactless wallets.
• August 19, 2008 : First-of-Kind Solutions has become a company under the name of "1 OK Solutions bvba"

Electronic contactless wallets

Why not having all kind of paper vouchers and tickets stored electronically on a card? Your card has a table with your vouchers and tickets and is then your electronic wallet.

It is based on MIFARE contactless technology: instead of inserting the card into a payment terminal, you just tap/touch a terminal to do a payment.

Besides cards, wallets are available in different formats: keyrings, wristlets, watches, phone-screen-wipers, ... but also as a phone (NFC).

At the point-of-sale, you pay money and the vouchers are stored on your wallet. You now use the wallet to pay at the event.

The focus market is not electronic money, but paid vouchers / tickets / loyalty cards. Typical segments are large sport stadiums, concert halls, festivals, schools, but also small local events, parties, etc…

Doing more

At home, you can do an online purchase of tickets. If you have a contactless reader at home, your purchase is immediately stored on your wallet. But we also have a mechanism to buy vouchers and tickets online and get them to your electronic contactless wallet without needing a desktop reader at home.

It is a open system: You can use your wallet at every event/place that uses the system: You can use the same wallet for getting into the office, pay for drinks at a concert, get access to the stadium of your soccer-team, pay parking or vending-machines, …

Cards and terminals will be offered for free and event organizers will be charged, based on their sales. This makes the step-in threshold very low for both event organizers and end users. It also enables fast penetration of the system in a large area.

Ready for the future

It is preamble of NFC-phones: If you have an NFC-phone, the wallet is inside it and you can view the contents of your wallet on

your phone-screen. You can even recharge the wallet directly from your phone.

As an event organizer, you can manage your events online: Add events, create tickets and vouchers, change prices, … by just browsing the database from your computer.

In the same way, you can change the setting of a terminal from doing access control of a concert to paying drink-vouchers at a sports-event.

All transactions from terminals will be logged and pushed back from the terminal to the backend on regular intervals.

This product is called . Have a look for more details at http://www.tapango.com/

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