12-26-2023, 04:58 PM
(12-25-2023, 11:01 PM)tomh009 Wrote: How would you implement this without Internet connectivity on the buses? With any system?
Batching at the end of the day. That's the way PRESTO is implementing credit card and debit tapping. I would speculate that it's partially because of how they have you tap both on and off for the fares-by-distance set up the GO uses, and because the terminals on the buses do not have internet access.
You going into a store and paying for something with a credit card and being able to see that immediately is a modern graft onto the old batch processes that used to tally things up from a literal paper trail that businesses would submit to VISA/MasterCARD/etc… So is the debit card system. The terminals you use at a store, many of them can store transactions if their internet collection is offline and then upload them later. Stripe also has a similar store-and-forward option for their client apps when mobile or wifi data is not available. All of that is all based on those old batch processing paradigms.