This year is the first year of electronic payment, but when you want to use electronic payment, you have to take out your mobile phone, click on the APP, enter your password, or take out the NFC proximity card from your wallet to start payment.

This year is the first year of electronic payment, but when you want to use electronic payment, you have to take out your mobile phone, open the APP, enter your password, or take out the NFC proximity card from your wallet to start payment. Garmin teamed up with All-in-One Card to release the "vivosmartHR mobile payment heart rate bracelet" on July 9. It is the first "wearable payment bracelet" in Taiwan, China, with electronic ticket consumption and inquiry functions. It is widely used in Taiwan MRT stations and urban bicycles. In offline transaction environments such as rental stations and the four major convenience supermarkets, you can directly put the hand wearing the smart bracelet close to the sensor to complete the purchase.

Garmin ranks fourth in the global wearable bracelet market share, second only to Fitbit, Xiaomi, and Apple. It is optimistic that smart wearable devices will continue to become popular and become indispensable electronic consumer products. In addition to making wearable devices smart, Garmin To become an accessory for physical health monitoring, it must also become a part of smart life. In cooperation with the All-in-One Card, users can use the wearable payment bracelet to pay at micropayment sites throughout Taiwan. Garmin's slogan for this wearable payment bracelet is "health, life, pay with one hand."

Like when you go out for exercise, you don’t need to carry a bulky mobile phone and wallet just to buy water after exercise. You can pay with the “wearable payment bracelet” you carry with you and record your exercise status; when you go to work and take the MRT, There is no need to take out your wallet or fish for your Easy Card in a large bag, just put the "wearable payment bracelet" into the card machine.

Lin Mengyuan, senior manager of Garmin's marketing department, said that the number of payment bases and types that can be paid with the One Card is no longer inferior to that of the Easy Card. Garmin is very satisfied with this, but the main reason why it chooses to cooperate with the One Card is that the chip used by the Card is several NFC The most advanced payment tools such as Easy Card, eTag, and iCash can be directly integrated into the chip of the "wearable payment bracelet" instead of adding an additional induction coil to the bracelet. By directly integrating the card into the chip, in addition to payment, the payment amount and balance can also be directly displayed on the bracelet, and the last 6 transaction records can be queried. The

iPass card was officially launched on the Taipei MRT on July 1 this year. It can currently be used at 20,000 small payment points across Taiwan, including the Taipei and Kaohsiung MRTs, public bicycle rental stations in various cities across Taiwan, and the entire Taiwan bus system. The four major convenience supermarkets, Quanlian Supermarket, Kaohsiung Hanshin Department Store underground mall, Kaohsiung Taroko Caoya Road underground mall, Yilan Children's Play Festival tickets, covering food, clothing, housing, transportation, education and entertainment in Taiwan. Shi Shengyao, chairman of One Card Bank, said that he is currently planning to enter electronic payment and hopes to enter more payment occasions, such as snack shops.

Garmin has formed an alliance with iPASS to launch Taiwan's first "vivosmartHR mobile payment heart rate bracelet" with activity heart rate monitoring and electronic ticket consumption inquiry functions. From the left are Lin Mengyuan, senior marketing manager of Garmin Asia, Wang Zhengwei, deputy general manager of Garmin Asia, Shi Shengyao, chairman of Yika, and Zhang Xiuqi, general manager of Yika.

Garmin’s newly launched “vivosmartHR mobile payment heart rate bracelet” can be used to rent uBike bicycles with a one-stop card. It can also be used to rent public bicycles in cities across Taiwan.

After adding the NFC card payment function, this "wearable payment bracelet" also retains Garmin health monitoring functions, such as step recording, sleep recording, activity goals, sedentary reminders, floor statistics, running sports mode, wrist Heart rate sensing, etc., the usage time is about 5 days on a single charge. However, compared to the "vivosmartHR" version, it lacks a GPS receiving chip. However, Lin Mengyuan explained that without GPS, only the track records are different. Other records such as exercise distance, exercise time, calories burned, and heartbeat are the same, which is suitable for caring about yourself. It is worn by healthy office workers and non-heavy exercisers, and is currently priced at NT$5,990 (approximately RMB 1,250).