In Hong Kong‚ the Octopus Card is not only treated as a means of electric payment. The Octopus Card interacts a lot with our daily life‚ like entering our apartments‚ registering students’ attendance in schools‚ recognizing our membership of certain organizations‚ etc. Hong Kong people trust Octopus deeply from our heart. The MTR Corporation together with the KCRC Managing Board owned about 80% of the share of the Octopus‚ while the HKSAR government is the largest shareholder of the MTR Corporation
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Flexibility with RFID: A Case Study of the Octopus Card Lam Tak Ming The Hong Kong Polytechnic University mslam@polyu.edu.hk Abstract: Octopus cards are an electronic payment system based on a wireless RFID technology developed in Hong Kong. Users simply hold their contactless smartcards over an electronic reader‚ and the payment is deducted from the card automatically. If users link their cards to their credit card to upload money‚ there is no cash
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Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance and Octopus Card System Lam Ka Chun 3035069794 The University of Hong Kong CCST9029 Cyberspace Crime: Technology and Ethics Dr. K.P. Chow Ms. Chan Vivien Pui Shan Abstract This article is about the leakage of data of the Octopus card company. In 2010 ‚ Octopus sold the information of their clients to 6 companies for promotion and made a profit of 44 million Hong Kong dollars over 4.5 years .In view of the case of Octopus case‚ this article will go through
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Octopus card Small family run groceries‚ vegetable stores Big well-known clothing or departmental stores‚ e.g. Sogo 1.Cost of setting up in using Octopus Generally small profit margin and low value-added business‚ painful for them as setting up Octopus raises extra cost.(hundreds monthly rent)The works or the owners are usually with low skill and education level‚ time cost and money cost may increases when they go learning of how to serve using Octopus machines and networks. It’s possible
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In our group’s case study report‚ we will examine the use of Octopus system in the education sector. Octopus system is a widely used e-Commerce technology in Hong Kong‚ covering a variety of industries including transportation‚ retail‚ restaurants‚ and more. Tsung Tsin Primary School is the main focus of this case study. The school uses the Octopus system extensively‚ integrating into student and staff information‚ attendance‚ educational activities‚ payment‚ and communications. We will look at
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Octopus and Privacy: Business Ethics Table of Content Introduction 3 The Objective 3 Research Methods 3 Background of the Company 3 Background of the Issue 5 Identification of Issue 7 Analysis of Issues 8 Recommendation 10 Conclusion 11 Appendix 12 List of Reference 12 Introduction Hong Kong has one of the most highly successful e-purse programs‚ the Octopus card. The Octopus card‚ which began in the niche transportation industry and extended outward to retailers‚ has been widely adopted
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Payments Payment is a kind of feedback system that making a transaction of purchases at Octopus-enabled retailers. Holding the card against or waving it over an Octopus card reader from up to a few centimeters away without the user taking out the card. The reader will acknowledge payment by emitting a beep sound‚ and display the amount deducted and the remaining balance of the card in 0.3 seconds. In MTR When riding the MTR system‚ the entry point of commuters is noted when a passenger enters
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Hong Kong‚ speed and efficiency is the most important all the times. Can you imagine when you got on the bus without preparing your octopus card or coins in advance‚ and only start finding your wallet in your bag for a few seconds‚ people behind you in the queue will definitely express impatience? That’s what happens in Hong Kong so sometimes searching my octopus card makes me feel stressful. However‚ here in Sydney‚ no one blamed on me and everyone seemed to not care about this at all. That was the
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EZ-Link (Singapore) The EZ-Link is a contactless smart card in Singapore used for paying transportation fees for the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT)‚ Light Rail Transit (LRT) and public bus services. Aside from its primary use of transportation payment‚ the card has been developed as a viable substitute for carrying cash within the Metropolis. Among its secondary uses are: a) it can be used as a secondary identification and concession card for students in nationally recognized educational institutions
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1.4 Our Main Focus 19 2. Backgrounds 21 2.1 Specifications of Problems 21 2.2 Potential Solutions 26 2.3 Simulations 30 3. Solutions 41 3.1 Optimal Scheduling 41 3.2 Changing the Settings of Express Counters 53 3.3 Loyalty Card 62 3.4 Analysis of the Check-out System in Foreign Countries 71 4. Conclusions and Discussions 97 4.1 First Step For Improvement – Optimal Scheduling/ Express Counters 97 4.2 Further Improvement 98 5. Reference 102 6. Appendix 104
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