2002-05-13

cStar Technologies is rolling out a range of wireless vending solutions extending to new M-Commerce and other M2M applications.

MBusinessDaily: Mobile Business News - Monday, May 13, 2002

CStar Extends Wireless Apps

cStar Technologies is rolling out a range of wireless vending solutions extending to new M-Commerce and other M2M applications.

Among these is the company's latest real-time cellphone and credit card-enabled vending solution. cStar's stab at the technology started with wireless management data capture and now is completing the end-to-end methodology for unattended point-of-sale transactions.

Consumers will overcome the problem of not having correct change or ready cash when making purchases at currently existing vending machines.

This technology can be applied to other unattended point-of-sale such as parking meters and highway tollbooths and down the road, to airline and theater ticketing, taxi fare monitoring and eventually all points-of-sale.

"cStar's patented proprietary technologies pave the way to different M2M applications serving numerous business segments and physical environments," say cStar's Stella Yoon.

The company is also taking up a vertical application aimed at the utility industry: utility meters that are fitted with cStar's Wireless Local Area Network SkyGate series III. This remote "drive-by" data retrieval system incorporates both Wireless LAN and Wireless WAN connectors, automating the accounting, billing and service functions on-line and in real-time. It feeds data into Computer Associates' Unicenter tool.

Yoon says that "cStar addresses its customers' needs by providing a combination of industrial real-time monitoring solutions, particularly incorporation with the fertile ground of PDAs."