Introducing Token
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Introducing Token
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Re: Introducing Token
#2Well, a ring is better than a watch I suppose. But the idea of charging my ring every night just so I can authenticate feels burdensome.
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#3I wonder how they are addressing the lack of standardization of NFC protocols, which has essentially prevented NFC from taking off..
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#4This reminds me of the Java Ring, that was almost 20 years ago.
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#5I wonder how they are addressing the lack of standardization of NFC protocols, which has essentially prevented NFC from taking off..
Good question. We're seeing some consolidation though. One example, we were frustrated about the idea of having to go city to city building partnerships with local transit authorities for our customers to be able to use their Token in place of their transit card. But in partnership with Mastercard we're working to standardize transit systems to use EMV as the standard open protocol instead of proprietary Mifare protocols. We've had some luck, over 80 cities will be live with this in 2017. Chicago and London were among the first. We also are BLE compatible.
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#6Well, a ring is better than a watch I suppose. But the idea of charging my ring every night just so I can authenticate feels burdensome.
Right now it lasts 2 weeks on a single charge.
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#7Well, a ring is better than a watch I suppose. But the idea of charging my ring every night just so I can authenticate feels burdensome.
What's stupid is that you could build something similar that doesn't need power.
Take a look at contactless bank cards. They're powered by the signal from the NFC reader.