On Jul 3, 10:05*am, MIG wrote:

On 2 July, 23:30, Matthew Geier
wrote:

On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:47:15 -0700, Andrew Cullen wrote:
Oyster was meant to
be updated to ITSO technology but it doesn't appear to be happening. I
believe its a similar situation at SWT.

*They have changed something, last year when in London, I discovered the
LU readers were responding to my Singapore CEPAS card, where as the
Oyster readers on the buses were ignoring it.

*In fact they were responding to the CEPAS card while it was still in my
pocket and I was holding the Oyster in my hand next to the gate reader.

*Experiments with the ticket machines at Earls Court revealed the ticket
machine would respond to the Singapore CEPAS card at 30-40cm where as the
Oyster had to be with in 10cm. It's actually a surprise the security
people didn't come over and ask what I was doing :-)

If that's not fixed it would be a disaster. *It's about the distance
one's pocket would be from the reader when going through a gate with a
paper travelcard or other ticket, or walking past a reader in a
crowded corridor.

Not sure there's much if anything TfL could do about it - it sounds
like it's an issue with the design of the Singaporean CEPAS card (or
card system) which is 'over-sensitive' and wakes up and pings back a
'hello I'm here' message when there's any RFID smartcard reader
vaguely close by. The fact this doesn't happen with an Oyster card
means the Oyster system was designed only to work in very close
quarters ('touching distance' away).

Of course this does mean the entire system is a white elephant and
should be abandoned immediately before the world falls apart. ;-)