The World Health Organization is taking all possible measures to prevent minors from smoking. So, in Japan, vending machines have been installed that have a built-in system for verifying the buyer's age based on RFID technology.
The World Health Organization is taking all possible measures to prevent minors from smoking. In Japan, vending machines have been installed that have a built-in age verification system based on RFID technology.
Japan has set a goal of equipping about 500,000 vending machines with RFID tags that can read cards issued to citizens over 20 years of age. The machine has a unique identifier that scans the card presented to the reader and determines that the cardholder is old enough to purchase tobacco.
For adult customers, the card offers another advantage: they can add a certain amount of money to it and use it as a debit card. This makes purchasing from a vending machine even faster and more convenient, since customers no longer have to dig in their pockets for coins or bills.
And parents can be sure that cigarettes will not fall into the hands of their children.
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