In step with Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) the technology scans the the passenger’s palm vein pattern and hyperlinks it with the nol card. This allows the passenger to shuttle with out the necessity to take care of a physical card. This technology presents a convenient, cardless potential for passengers.
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Dubai: Ever left your nol card at residence? Quickly, this might increasingly also no longer topic, as you might perhaps be in an arena to easily use your palm to pay for your Dubai Metro fare. Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) revealed the ‘MyID Palm’ project at the continuing Gitex World 2024.
“This contemporary draw will allow passengers to use their palm to pay for varied modes of transport, including the Metro, buses, trams, and marine products and services. It would also work at retail outlets, grocery retail outlets, and drinking locations that receive nol card funds,” Salah Al Deen Al Marzooqi, Director of the Automated Assortment System (ACS) Department at the RTA, told Gulf News.
The project, per Al Marzooqi, is still in pattern, and whereas the correct delivery date is yet to be confirmed, the RTA is targeting a roll-out by 2026.
How does it work?
To register, customers will settle on to be in contact about with designated kiosks at Dubai Metro or bus stations. The job will involve:
1. Utilizing the kiosk’s touchscreen, and deciding on the ‘Register nol card’ option.
2. Putting your nol card on the scanner, after which your nol card particulars would show up on the show.
3. Then, you might settle on to scan your ethical palm by retaining it 15 cm above the scanner and spreading your fingers out a small. As soon as the scan is entire, you might settle on to repeat the job for the opposite hand.
Registering your palm by the ‘MyID Palm’ service shall be non-compulsory, per Al Marzooqi, and if commuters attain prefer to use the service, they’d simply settle on to take care of their hands over the readers at the build gates.
Browsing at the wave of a hand
The nol card is no longer only a transport card, over time the RTA has also enabled nol card holders to contrivance funds by the card at diverse outlets and retailers. Accoding to Al Marzooqi, the MyID Palm will also be an option at these positive aspects of sales.
“For event, must you might perhaps be at a café and are searching to aquire a espresso, honest situation your palm over the card reader, and the quantity shall be deducted straight from your nol card steadiness,” added Al Marzooqi.
