Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Monitoring method and system for offline payment machine

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and devices, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for monitoring a payment machine are provided. One of the methods includes: monitoring a payment machine's interaction with a terminal; and in response to determining that the payment machine is obtaining payment information from the terminal, sending, in a low-power-consumption communication mode, attribute information of the payment machine to the terminal, causing the terminal to send the attribute information to a server for monitoring an operation status of the payment machine.