In the recent years new standards referring to RFID technology are imposed and among them surely the NFC (Near Field Communication) is important. It is the technology with the radio frequency which allows communication between two devices that are near. They allow the exchange of information or performance of security payment. The designers claim that NFC will simplify to its extreme the way of interaction between the consumers device and guarantee a fast and secure information exchange.
Possible applications are many folded:
- Paying by mobile devices like cell phones
- Credit card integration into a mobile device
- Electronic money integrating with prepaid cards
- Electronic ticketing for transport usage
- Personal electronic document
- Download of data from kiosks such as railway time table
- Flight and hotel booking
- Music and photos download from camera, cell phones, multimedia readers
- Connections P2P (peer to peer) for an easy information transmission between wireless devices
- Nokia has introduced NFC technology in their latest smartphones available in the market. NFC (Near Field communication) allows you quick transfer of images, data, personal contacts, videos and more by just tapping the two phones together. A comparison between NFC and Bluetooth is also included in this article. Read the article to know the fabulous features available in NFC.
Nokia has come up with NFC technology in their latest smartphones. NFC means Near Field Communication that enables simplified transfer and exchange of data through wireless connection. The data can be transferred between the devices just touching the phones each other. NFC makes the users to transfer data within no time. If you want to share a picture, then just tap your phone with the one you want to pass it on. Nokia is giving a wide advertisement after the introduction of NFC feature in their smartphones. NFC just tap to share technology is now available in Nokia 701, Nokia 700, Nokia 603, Nokia C7-00 and Nokia N9
Application in India
There has been limited use of NFC technology all across the world with India currently having only two instances of it being implanted.
Tata DoCoMo – The service was announced in February 2011 where Tata aimed at providing its customers with anytime, anywhere talk time recharge, bill payment and other value added services (VAS) in self service mode. At the time of announcement, the service was to be run on a trial basis in Hyderabad. During the initial phase, services of mobile phone top ups, download of ringtones and wallpapers would be offered.
Citibank – Citibank offered the NFC technology in collaboration with Nokia, Vodafone, MasterCard and VIVOtech. Labelled as ‘Citi Tap and Pay’, Citibank customers could pay for their purchases by using their mobile phones as credit cards. At the time of launch, Citi partnered with Nokia to run the functionality on NFC enabled Nokia 6212, Vodafone for the mobile network associated with the service and MasterCard as the contactless payment and security infrastructure.
For the future
Biggies in the form of Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft are all vying to tap in on the NFC mobile payment market which is expected to grow immensely in the future.
The technology is prevalent in Japan but is still making inroads in other countries across the world. With technologies such as E-commerce becoming popular in India, more and more people are seeing the need to have easier means of making transactions. While E-commerce reduces the need of making physical visits when looking to buy products, in-store payments through NFC could be the end result of the physical visit as well.
In-store payments is seen as the biggest use of NFC technology whereas its usage and adaptability can be drawn to various aspects of life. It could be used for transportation, health care, ease of use, smartly access objects and social media as well.
A Forrester report indicates the technology would take some time in being implemented as current numbers indicate only 12% of adults in the US and 6% adults in Europe have made transactions through their mobile phones.
Near Field Communications technology is going to be implemented in London during the 2012 Olympics which would enable handset owners with NFC feature enabled to make contactless payments at over 60,000 locations.
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