Near Field Communication

Wireless short range communication technology

Allows Intuitive initialization of wireless networks
Complementary to Bluetooth and 802.11 with
their long distance capabilities
Works in dirty environment
Does not require line of sight
Provides communication method
to non-self powered devices

How does it look like?



Tags currently offer between 96 and 4,096
bytes of memory.
Daily Uses
Stick it on your car door, so when you enter in, you already have google maps
turned on,
Stick the sticker on the table, so before you sleep, you put your phone sliding your
phone through it, your alarm is already set.
Who likes to keep your paper business card, NFC enabled business card is enough to
transfer the data.
Boarding passes and transit tickets, its simple like swipe you phone, get the ticket
books.
Mobile wallet, swapping your phone to pay for McDonalds. Google Wallet is on the
forefront of pushing this technology.
Use an NFC Tag to stream my phone to my monitor
I thought: so whenever i leave my house, The NFC chip at my front door: (tagged:
To college) maxes phone screen brightness, switches phone to silent mode,
Extra Thoughts: Turns off all my lights at my house, it turns off my TV, PC and turns
ON my freaking alarm system!
HOW? NFC tags in combination with Telldus tech.
Other Uses
NFC enabled parking meter.
Germany, Austria, Finland, New Zealand, Italy, Iran,
and Turkey have trialed NFC ticketing systems for
public transport
India is implementing NFC based transactions in box
offices for ticketing purposes
Think of an NFC ring.


Adding NFC to Terminals Adds Value to
Mobile Payments

Who needs it the most?(informally)
1. Busy mothers checking out at the grocery store.
2. Businessmen and women riding the subway to
work.
3. Businesses looking for faster, more secure
payment methods for customers
4. Students touring a museum,
etc.
History
1983: The first patent to be associated with the abbreviation RFID was granted to Charles
Walton.
2004: Nokia, Philips and Sony established the Near Field Communication (NFC) Forum; nfc-
forum.org
2006: Initial specifications for NFC Tags
2006: Nokia 6131 was the first NFC phone
2009: In January, NFC Forum released Peer-to-Peer standards to transfer contact, URL,
initiate Bluetooth, etc.
2010 Samsung Nexus S: First Android NFC phone shown
2011 Google I/O "How to NFC" demonstrates NFC to initiate a game and to share a contact,
URL, app, video, etc.
2011 NFC support becomes part of the Symbian mobile operating system with the release of
Symbian Anna version.
2011 RIM is the first company for its devices is certified by MasterCard Worldwide, the
functionality of PayPass
2012 Sony introduces the "Smart Tags
2012 Samsung introduces TecTile.
2013 Samsung and Visa announce major partnership to develop mobile payments.
2013 IBM Scientists from Zurich, in an effort to curb fraud and security breaches have come
up with a new mobile authentication security technology based on Near-Field
Communication (NFC).

News About NFC
1. China telecom (Chinas 3rd largest mobile operator) made
its NFC rollout in November 2013
2. Vodafone recently announced the launch of an NFC based
mobile payment service in Spain
3. Nokia went on record to say that all future Symbian device
will have NFC support.
4. Ra.One became the first Indian movie to be marketed
through NFC.
5. Sri Lankas first workforce smartcard, uses NFC.
6. Nintendo Wii U, will come equipped with NFC.
7. An Android version of TimmyME BlackBerry 10 Application
is expected in January 2014
A few Advantages


Multiple devices in a small area can communicate with each other using the same frequency

No special software is required

Peer to Peer communication, Virtual Connector
-either directly or by establishing wireless links

Low cost solution to distribute info / services
-e.g. by passive loops, embedded in paper media

Disadvantages

Security Threats
Eavesdropping : use in passive mode
Data Corruption basically a DOS : special
equipments are available to detect this.
Data modification and insertion : If an active
device transfers data at 106 kbps, a modified
Miller coding with 100% modulation is used.
In all other cases Manchester coding is used
with a modulation ratio of 10%.
Man in the middle attack, Solution: Use active
and passive mode with intrusion detection.
Things to be considered.
1. complexity
2. reliability
3. battery
4. data plan
Costly and time consuming exception
Business

Business
IATA and GSM associations have defined
industry use cases.

NFC - Technical Basics
Wireless Short Range Communication Technology
Based on RFID(Radio-frequency identification)
technology at 13.56 MHz
Operating distance typical up to 10 cm
Compatible with todays field proven contactless RFID
technology
Data exchange rate today up to 424 Kbps


13.56MHz RF Link
RFID object
Future NFC work items
A mapping of NFC to other communication protocols
including the Internet Protocol (IP), GSM and Bluetooth
Advanced Logical Link Control with addressing and segmentation support
Support for Data Link and end-to-end security and key
management
Air-to-wired interface specification
Application extensions in NFCIP-1
Power control as an example application extension



Peoples view
Bluetooth Low Energy (or BLE) BLE is gonna
blow NFC out of the water.
NFC can totally remove the pain of mobile
usage in air travel.
ATI(air transport industries) needs to establish
standards for NFC
Reference

NearFieldCommunication.org
http://nfc-forum.org/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communica
tion