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07.8.2006, 14:38
QR code based travel information service and Kaywa's new SMS Services
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Bureau of Transportation
has been putting QR codes on bus stops around the city and will launch
a new QR code based travel information service on August 10th.
The service provides timetables for buses that visit the bus stop and also has tracking capabilities, informing the passenger how far away the next bus is. The service is also available for phones that don’t support QR codes. Each bus stop has a unique number which passengers can enter manually into the mobile site to receive the same travel information.
In my last post, I just talked about short codes, now I read the above. Again short codes can also be used this way.
Kaywa also thinks similarly as we also will provide an SMS service which reuses these shortcodes for other stuff. If you happen to live in Switzerland, you can for example send an SMS to 202 with QR 2020400102 and see what happens. You probably can guess it already.
If you want to see other examples of our upcoming SMS blog service, you can go to http://jerome.bleublog.ch, scroll down and find the SMS Blog Services button. I'll soon report more about this new service which includes SMS publishing, SMS alerts and SMS chat.
Via Wireless World Japan: QR code travel information service launched in Tokyo
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