NFC News

NFC Forum Incorporates Tags into Its Certification Program

The release of Apple's NFC-enabled iOS 11 platform is helping to drive the growth of NFC deployments that are making an NFC tag certification program important, the association says.

Tags: Manufacturing, Retail, Payment Systems, Innovation, NFC, Standards and Regulation, Internet of Things

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NFC Case Studies

Polish Cancer Center Tracks Drug Temperatures via a Real-Time NFC-enabled Solution

The system, from Bluog and Utz Group, includes NFC-enabled data-loggers, Near Field Communication readers attached to containers, and a cellular or Wi-Fi connection to software managing the read data.

Tags: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Supply Chain, NFC

• U.K. University Expands NFC Solutions to Track Workforce at Three Campuses
• Erste Group Banks on RFID
• NFC Helps Charity With Fundraising Event
• RFID Connects Rémy Martin With Its Consumers

NFC Features

NFC Gets in the Ring at UFC Fan Village

This past summer, Ottawa's Ultimate Fighting Championship Fan Village found that participants using NFC-enabled technology from XOLUTION had higher game participation rates, and also shared event-based information via social networks about 5,000 times.

Tags: Innovation, NFC

• NFC Tags on Collars Identify Lost Pets
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• NFC Tags for New Business and Consumer Applications

NFC Editor's Notes

• Big RFID Deployments and Better RFID Products
• Next Up: A Passive UHF Reader in Your Phone
• An iPhone With NFC—at Last!

NFC Expert Views

Remote Communication Is Changing Property Auction House Viewings

With NFC technology in a viewer's mobile phone and RFID tags deployed around a property, potential buyers can quickly get information about a building directly on their smartphones.

Tags: Innovation, NFC

• Combining E-paper and NFC RFID Technologies to Enhance Medical Asset Management and Tracking
• NFC Hype, the Future of Bluetooth Beacons and Ultracode 2-D Color Bar Codes

NFC Videos

• NFC and RFID: Enhancing the Customer Experience Near and Far

  We live in an increasingly wireless world. Whether we're listening to music, making a purchase, sending a file from one device to another, or using a fitness tracker, we now expect it to happen wi...

  Tags: 2017, Infrastructure, LIVE, NFC
• Best NFC Deployment; Evenko

  This award will be given to the end-user company that has demonstrated the best use of Near Field Communication (NFC) for consumer or other applications. The finalists, selected by an independent p...

  Tags: 2016, LIVE, NFC, RFID Journal Awards

NFC White Papers

• An NFC Pairing Mechanism for RF Remote Controls
  Published September 2017
  The primary mechanism for communication between remote controls and set-top boxes has been infrared. Newer technologies like RF and BLE provide many benefits over this legacy technology, resulting in increased reliability, such as working at greater distances and not requiring a line of sight. In this paper, Gautam Babbar and Braden Flowers outline a unique solution to pair an RF remote with a target utilizing Near Field Communication tags. (4 pages)
  Tags: NFC, Emerging Technologies
• NFC Forum–ISO/IEC 14443 Analog Parameter Comparison and Alignment: Methodology, Procedures and Results
  Published April 2017
  This white paper compares analog parameter limits between the NFC Forum and ISO/IEC 14443 RFID standards. For each parameter limit, an associated procedure is defined, written in such a way that an experienced engineer can repeat the procedure and measure similar results. (148 pages)
  Tags: NFC, Emerging Technologies