Testing coming for bus ticket purchase
Here’s a timely piece following recent discussions on the blog: Bruno Bisson tells us how the ARTM is recruiting testers for buying transit tickets with our phones. Seems like you need to be using the Chrono app, for starters.
Daniel D 11:27 on 2021-09-15 Permalink
This article seems thin on details. It wasn’t all that long ago the only way to charge your OPUS card from home was if you were sent a bulky USB card reader.
Has the OPUS technology quietly evolved since then? I’m wondering how the card can be updated. Perhaps the NFC chips on modern phones now makes this possible, when a few years ago it wasn’t.
Dhomas 13:21 on 2021-09-15 Permalink
There’s an app to read your Opus card already. I use it to figure out which of my cards still has tickets and/or which one has my monthly pass, for when I reactivate it (maybe someday…).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=card.opus
Maybe it’s possible to also provision the cards via NFC, as Daniel D suggests.
Joey 16:09 on 2021-09-15 Permalink
I think for this pilot they have newer OPUS cards that have slighlty advanced tech…,
Véronik 20:03 on 2021-09-15 Permalink
They beta tested this back in July or August with the chrono app, and it worked fine with an old Opus card and an Iphone 8.
Kate 21:27 on 2021-09-15 Permalink
I’ll have to try it with a stone knife and a bearskin next.