Development of a food vending machine compatible with "Visa Touch (Smart Plus)"
7 companies with strengths in each field cooperate! Tohoku Expressway Installed in "Toga Seihou PA (In-bound line)"!
～NEXCO EAST SA/PA accelerates use of “Visa Touch (Smart Plus)”! ~
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May 28, 2009
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Nex-area Company Limited
Mitsubishi UFJ NICOS Co., Ltd.
Shibaura Vending Machine Co., Ltd.
NEC
Sanden Co., Ltd.
MP Solution Co., Ltd.
NEXCO EAST (Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chairman Shigejiro Yagi), Nex-area Company Limited (Minato, President Katsuji Kubotera), Mitsubishi UFJ NICOS CORPORATION (Tokyo, Chiyoda, Sohei Sasaki), Shibaura Vending Machine Co., Ltd. Noboru Tamura), NEC Corporation (Kaoru Yano, NEC), Sanden Co., Ltd. (Isesaki City, Gunma Prefecture, President Ichiyuki Suzuki), MP Solution Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Minato, President Eiji Sato) 7 companies agreed to install food ticket vending machines for contactless IC settlement service "Visa Touch (Smart Plus)" in service areas (SA) and parking areas (PA) of NEXCO EAST, Tohoku Expressway from May 21 We started the service at the snack corner of "Tsuga Nishikata PA (In-bound Line)" (Tsuga-cho, Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi Prefecture).
This initiative was realized in cooperation with seven companies with strengths in each field. Mitsubishi UFJ Nikos settled "Visa Touch (Smart Plus)", NEXCO EAST and Nexeria East Japan SA/PA management and operation, Shibaura Vending Machine Is the manufacture of meal ticket vending machines, NEC is the provision of core devices for reader/writers (read/write machines) mounted on meal ticket vending machines, and the provision of a rear system center that connects vending machines with electronic money businesses. Sanden is the development of reader/writer. Manufacturing and MP Solutions are in charge of sales data processing respectively.
With this service, you can quickly and without a card just by holding your "Visa Touch (Smart Plus)" compatible card or mobile phone over the "multi-money contactless IC card reader/writer" installed in the food ticket vending machine. Is possible. As a result, customers can easily obtain meal tickets without the hassle of inserting banknotes and coins. For the operation side, it is expected that the burden of operations such as change preparation and coin management will be reduced, and that unit price and usage frequency can be expected to contribute to sales. The affiliated companies plan to gradually Large the number of installation locations.
In addition, NEXCO EAST started handling "Visa Touch (Smart Plus)" from December 2006 for the purpose of improving the convenience of Expressway users, and currently there are 182 SA/PA locations. It is available in stores and in 33 locations and 83 beverage vending machines. In addition, NEXCO EAST 's membership card "E-NEXCO pass (E NEXCO pass)" corresponding to "Visa Touch (Smart Plus)" is issued.
Mitsubishi UFJ Nikos and NEXCO EAST will Large the use opportunities of "Visa Touch (Smart Plus)" with this initiative, and the use of "Visa Touch (Smart Plus)" will be further accelerated in SA/PA of NEXCO EAST I'm looking forward to it.
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[Meal ticket vending machines compatible with "Visa Touch (Smart Plus)"]
[About "Visa Touch (Smart Plus)"]
"Visa Touch" is a contactless IC payment service provided by Visa Worldwide worldwide and "Smart Plus" is a similar service uniquely developed by Mitsubishi UFJ NICOS. Both services have a mobile type using a mobile phone and a dedicated card type, and adopt a parent-child card method that treats a credit card as a parent card and "Visa Touch (Smart Plus)" as a child card. It is a mechanism that will be billed collectively on the cards. In addition, "Visa Touch" and "Smart Plus" are available at the same member stores.
[About the company]
Mitsubishi UFJ NICOS Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi UFJ Nikos was established in April 2007 by the merger of UFJ Nikos and DC Card, and in August 2008, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group made a new start as a retail core subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Currently, the number of credit card members, transaction amount, and sales base are among the largest in Japan. In particular, we are proud of the industry's leading record in issuing affiliated cards, and we also develop and provide payment services that make full use of IT (information technology). Leading the industry in. Going forward, we will continue to strive to become an “impressive creation company” that continues to provide valuable services to a wide range of customers in various situations in their daily lives. The number of card members is 25.25 million, and the total card transaction amount is 7,474.8 billion yen (as of March 31, 2009).
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. (NEXCO EAST)
NEXCO EAST is engaged in Expressway management and operation business, construction business, service area business and Expressway related business in the eastern Japan area from north of Kanto, Nagano, Niigata to Hokkaido, and has a break with unprecedented appeal. We are also actively working on new businesses, such as the development of the facility “Pasar” brand and the start of the hotel business.
Under the corporate slogan "You are the best way.", we will always consider customers first, pursue efficiency, and aim to be a company that conducts fair and transparent business operations 24 hours a day. We will strive to provide safe and comfortable Expressway and quality services 365 days a year.
Nex-area Company Limited
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. (NEXCO EAST) is a company that manages and operates commercial facilities installed in Expressway service areas and parking areas (SA/PA). NEXCO EAST A wholly owned subsidiary.
Shibaura Vending Machine Co., Ltd.
Shibaura Vending Machines offers various vending machines such as cigarette vending machines and ticket vending machines, as well as development, manufacturing, sales, and maintenance business, as well as proposals for remote management systems for vending machines that utilize network technology.
The ticket vending machine business, which started in 1987, has introduced a number of models from popular types to high-performance machines, and has a large track record of delivery to the food ticket market and entrance ticket market of restaurants.
Shibaura Vending Machine aims to achieve further growth (Growth) through creation and cooperation, and will continue to propose distribution equipment that is useful for people's lives and society.
NEC
NEC is a service platform for electronic money payments (multi-service reader/writer system, MS-RW system), member service platform for Osaifu-Keitai (TOKUTOKUTOKU Pocket), payment-linked advertisement distribution service (AD-Push), etc. We provide services that cover a wide range of ubiquitous areas. The MS-RW system has already been used in a wide range of business formats, such as beverage vending machines, convenience stores, and consumer electronics mass retailers.This "multi-money contactless IC card reader/writer" uses this system as infrastructure. I am.
NEC will continue to contribute to the new business development of companies and the improvement of consumer convenience in the ubiquitous society.
Sanden Co., Ltd.
Sanden promotes product development with a core technology of "cooling and warming + electronics" from car air-conditioning systems, car air-conditioning compressors, freezing and refrigerating showcases, to various vending machines and communication electronic devices, and is currently in 53 countries in 53 countries. We are active in the field base. Together with its global power, we will promote activities centered on the environment, centering on our quality capabilities through our original Sanden Total Quality Management (STQM). We aim to be a global company that is pleased and welcomed by our stakeholders around the world.
MP Solution Co., Ltd.
MP Solution provides "MMS", a service that dramatically reduces the cost, procedure work, and operational workload associated with the introduction of electronic money payments, to various business formats. "JMMS", a sub-package for MMS beverage vending machines prepared by JAMA (Japan Vending Machine Association), is electronic money of vending machines nationwide including SA/PA of NEXCO EAST It is used for payment.