NFC News

Wisconsin Company Plans NFC Chip Implant Party

Three Square Market expects about 80 people to have NFC chips inserted between their thumb and forefinger to provide NFC-enabled access control, as well as the ability to select and pay for goods from the company's micro markets.

Tags: Retail, Security and Access Control, Payment Systems, NFC

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NFC Case Studies

U.K. University Expands NFC Solutions to Track Workforce at Three Campuses

The University of Wolverhampton uses Skillweb's SmartTask system to automatically track the work of personnel cleaning bathrooms, inspecting student housing rooms, servicing emergency equipment and more.

Tags: Asset Tracking, NFC

• Erste Group Banks on RFID
• NFC Helps Charity With Fundraising Event
• RFID Connects Rémy Martin With Its Consumers
• Post Foods Adds NFC to Cereal Marketing Mix

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

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NFC Editor's Notes

• Big RFID Deployments and Better RFID Products
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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

• 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
• NFC-enabled e-Ticketing in Public Transport: Clearing the Route to Interoperability
  Published January 2017
  The NFC Forum's Transport Special Interest Group explains how the growing global use of smartphones and other mobile devices offers an opportunity for the public transport industry to better serve customers and manage increasing demand, by ensuring that the millions of contactless readers and billions of smart cards deployed by public transport operators work seamlessly with the millions of NFC-enabled devices in the marketplace. (14 pages)
  Tags: NFC, Transportation