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Mobility Solutions for the Telecom Industry
Published in Jithesh Sathyan, Anoop Narayanan, Navin Narayan, K V Shibu, A Comprehensive Guide to Enterprise Mobility, 2016
Jithesh Sathyan, Anoop Narayanan, Navin Narayan, K V Shibu
Most consumers across the globe today are using credit, debit, and gift cards as the most convenient payment option for their purchases and payments. Credit or debit cards are an easy replacement to currency notes and bills, and it is likely that most consumers' wallets contain more than one plastic card (credit, debit, or gift card). How about swiping your smartphone at the billing counter of the grocery store or food court? Interesting? The world is about to witness a similar scenario soon. Most high-end smartphones today incorporate near-field communication (NFC) hardware, which can act as both NFC reader and NFC card (contact-less smartcard). The NFC-chip present in the phone holds a unique identification number as well as secure storage. Credit and debit service providers can utilize NFC-enabled phones as a replacement to the current plastic cards. Mobile operators can collaborate with credit and debit service organizations to implement this mobile payment solution. Some of the major mobile operators in the United States have already partnered with leading credit and debit service providers to prototype and field trial the NFC- based mobile payment solutions in the place of the existing credit and debit card- based payment services. A successful implementation of this initiative may lead to the replacement of over one billion plastic cards in the United States.
From Machine-to-Machine Communications to Internet of Things: Enabling Communication Technologies
Published in Hongjian Sun, Chao Wang, Bashar I. Ahmad, From Internet of Things to Smart Cities, 2017
Hamidreza Shariatmadari, Sassan Iraji, Riku Jäntti
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technologies were initially designed to provide short-range connectivity for the purpose of identification, utilized in various domains such as logistic, manufacturing, health care, security, and access control. Later, a specialized subset of RFID, known as near field communication (NFC), was developed that facilitated the secure data exchange. NFC has been widely deployed in smart mobile devices for performing contactless payment, ticketing, and device pairing. Ambient backscattering is another form of technology that utilizes the ambient radio waves for data transmissions [28]. It is considered as an appealing method of communications for the future smart sensing systems.
Mobile Media
Published in Tom Hutchison, Paul Allen, Web Marketing for the Music Business, 2013
One technology that is making this possible is near field communication (NFC), defined as a short-range wireless transmitting technology that connects a smartphone with a receiver to transfer data. It works much like a toll booth EasyPass. NFC is cheap and easy, and while it is already available in other countries, neither Apple nor Android was offering NFC in early 2012. Despite security risks and the debate over who should control the transaction process (the phone service provider or the store), Lauren Brousell of CIO (2012) says adoption is inevitable.
Tapping the Next Purchase: Embracing the Wave of Mobile Payment
Published in Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2022
Hui-Ting Tew, Garry Wei-Han Tan, Xiu-Ming Loh, Voon-Hsien Lee, Wei-Lee Lim, Keng-Boon Ooi
In recent years, one of the most prominent developments in the sphere of technology is in the form of mobile/smartphones.1 Mobile devices (m-devices), with the facilitation of Near Field Communication (NFC), allow customers to carry out proximity mobile payment (m-payment).2 This technology utilizes radio waves to send payment information from an individual’s m-devices to the point of sale terminal.3 This has brought about significant changes in the area of consumer behavior.4 Moreover, m-payment is anticipated to be a prevalent payment method in the future for various financial transactions.5 This is due to the performance enhancement and error minimization that m-payment can offer.6
Tools and Technologies for Blind and Visually Impaired Navigation Support: A Review
Published in IETE Technical Review, 2022
Bineeth Kuriakose, Raju Shrestha, Frode Eika Sandnes
Near-Field Communication (NFC)9 is also based on the RFID protocols. The main difference of NFC with an RFID is that an NFC device can act not only as a reader but also as a tag. It is also possible to transfer information between two NFC devices.