OTI Names Reader Customers; Discusses Wave Pilots; Possible iPhone Impact

NFC Times Exclusive: Ofer Tziperman, CEO of Israel-based NFC reader maker OTI, has named two of its largest reader customers in the North American market in an interview with NFC Times.

Tziperman told NFC Times that the majority of OTI’s reader orders in the U.S. are for the vending machine market, rather than other unattended retail segments like laundry machines, car washes, gambling machines, and ATMs. OTI’s largest North American customers include USA Technologies (USAT) and Canteloupe Systems, Tziperman told NFC Times.

USAT has had largest installed base of cashless vending terminals in the U.S. market, including a large base of Coca-Cola independent bottlers and operators, vice president of corporate communications and investor relations Veronica Rosa told NFC Times last year, which then included 100,000 contactless-enabled machines nationwide.