NFC Pays for Parking With HonkTAP

Private and college parking organizations, as well as municipalities, have been deploying a new payment solution this spring and summer that allows users to pay for their parking space with the tap of their smartphone, without the need for an app or the inputting of many details about their payment information. The NFC functionality, as part of Canadian technology company Honk Mobile's HonkTap solution, was developed with the support of Apple, and using Smartrac's 13.56 MHz NFC tags. The solution is now being deployed in some private parking lots throughout the United States and is already in use across Canada, says Tony La, Honk Mobile's CTO.