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Taxi Service Expanding iBeacon Payment System

  • NFC World, Tuesday, October 14, 2014 12:36 PM

Pay with Hailo, a service that uses Apple’s iBeacon technology to let users of the Hailo taxi hailing app pay drivers with their smartphone, is experiencing “steady growth”, Naoise Irwin, the company’s VP of strategic initiatives, has told NFC World+ — and Hailo now plans to roll out the service across its growing international network. Launched in Ireland and Boston in early September, Pay with Hailo uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology built into drivers’ and passengers’ iPhones to recognise when a passenger is in a Hailo driver’s vehicle and invite them to connect and pay for their ride via a one-click confirmation.

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  1. Brett Brett rothenberg from MGID, October 15, 2014 at 2:35 p.m.

    Well this is useless now.. as Hailo just backed out of the Us market.

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