Application of NFC Technology for Cashless Payment System in Canteen

Abstract

In a campus community, mostly is younger people and stay in University hostel without cooking facilities then have to get from canteen for foods and beverages. In office hour with limited break time either breakfast or lunch everyone is rushing to get food and crowded situation are happen. One of the issues is payment system use manually (cash) and queue at the cashier to pay foods, sometime need to wait a few minute until to get the turn. Cashless payment such as token or credit system is implementing in some of restaurant and food courts but does not applicable in University canteen that most of customers are students with small transaction, only a few dollars and cents. Nowadays, mobile phone or smart phone is not a luxury thing and most of student carries it for phone call, message, email, or browsing internet. Most of smart phone also embedded with Near Field Communication (NFC) reader inside the phone, thus by using this phone with NFC enable to do payment system at the canteen. The credit is deducted from mobile phone balance for prepaid system or billed in monthly for postpaid and this system have working together to the cellular phone operator. Confirmation on payment system is shows whether customer approve payment or not then a notification is sent to user.With this system be able to overcome several issues such as queue at cashier for payment and risk of student to carry cash money while buying foods.

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“…Kadir et al [5] concluded in their study that NFC technology in campus canteen pose an effective transaction and security for the students. As NFC payment is cashless, this also solves the issue of long queues in canteens due to the slow traditional process of payment.…”

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“…Cashless payments are also seen as more hygienic for food vendors [3]. Cashless modes for small payments, such as Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, are found to be able to reduce queueing and the need to carry cash for high-volume and low-value transactions [4,5]. In a recent study, Kilay, Simamora and Putra [6] show that the supply chain performance of micro, small, and medium enterprises in Indonesia is directly correlated with the use of e-payment services.…”