A system that can aggregate bulky point cards and membership cards into mobile phones has appeared

Store cards are issuing unique cards to enclose customers, such as point cards of consumer electronics retailers and membership cards of rental video shops, points cards of clothing shops and restaurants, etc. However, It seems that a system that gathers it on a mobile phone appeared.

It may be a good news for those who have a large amount of cards wiping out wallets or if you can not find cards easily at the time of payment and you will be impatient at checkouts.

Details are as follows.
News Releases October 9, 2008: Development of a system to massively and easily accumulate various point cards and membership cards to mobile phones "Kagomeko (tentative name)" and discussion on joint verification experiment start | NTT Com Corporate information

According to this release, it seems that NTT Communications has developed a system "KAGASPO" which aggregates various point cards and membership cards to mobile phones. And from February 2009 I will do a demonstration experiment of "Jaguarpo" jointly with the Big Camera Yurakucho branch and Nojima Tressa Yokohama store, space creation owner's freestyle BIGBOX Takadanobaba store.

"Gijasko" is issued cards for each store, the user can not be stored in the wallet, can not be used when wanting to use, and to solve the adverse effects on the environment caused by consuming a large amount of polyester cards With the developed technology, once downloading the "Key-Shuttle" application to the mobile phone, it will be possible to save points and membership card information on the mobile phone simply by holding it over to a dedicated reader / writer.

A dedicated reader / writer can be used in conjunction with an existing rewritable card reader / writer or a barcode reader of a POS terminal, and more than 100 point cards, face photographs, etc. It is said that you can consolidate membership cards including.

By the way, models available for "Kagomeko" demonstration experiment are part of NTT DoCoMo 903i ~ 906i series and part of 703i ~ 706i series.

Although it is a very innovative service, will it come the day when it will be put to practical use? It is supposed to be able to aggregate a large number of membership cards and point card information, but this time it may be scary when losing a mobile phone ....