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In July 2010, more than 5 billions of Earth inhabitants (out of 6.8) had a cell phone (Ericsson Study) with more than 2 millions of new subscribers a day in 2010. We expect 3.3 billion of Smart phones in 2015, Google just announced mid November 2010 that their Nexus “S” smart phones will be NFC (Near Field Communication) by the end of 2010. This changes drastically the landscape of information service...
Self-reporting patient data are valuable feedback for medical treatment and care process, as well as for clinical trial studies and support of medical treatment. However, traditional paper-based medical patient longitudinal surveys or questionnaires for health and well-being status information are time- and cost-consuming, and may suffer from low patient compliance. Consequently, an NFC-based electronic...
We present an adhesive sticker which allows contactless Smartcard function widely independent of the object material which it is sticked to. Recently interest raised for such a sticker to be attached on any mobile phone for contactless payment applications. This is seen as precessor of near field communication (NFC) technology helping to introduce contactless payment with mobile phone. In this context...
Near Field Communication (NFC) technology enables devices to communicate wirelessly within proximity distance. These NFC devices are often embedded into smart posters that offer the ability to exchange small files, photos and contact details. The Nokia 6212 Classic is currently the most popular NFC phone. It allows users to easily exchange digital objects using the NFC interface. To do so, two phones...
This paper deals with the increase of data rates for proximity coupling devices and NFC systems. The paper gives an introduction to the basic functionalities of RFID systems at 13.56 MHz and sums the required regulation and standard. We compare different modulation and bit coding schemes in order to achieve bit rates of 6.78 Mbit/s. The signals are compared in terms of their spectral bandwidth, which...
NFC technology can be integrated into existing systems to simplify and speed up the process of monitoring and control of these systems. In this paper we address a problem pertaining to the complexity of the monitoring and control of sensor or measurement equipment. Manual monitoring of measurement systems can be a tedious endeavor, especially in systems where the measurements are numerous and at regular...
Nowadays there is a need to improve the life quality of people in different social environments. One of the main fields to propose new improvements is healthcare. In this kind of scenario, health workers are doing a very important job because they are responsible for providing appropriate care to their patients. However, they are complaining about the complicated use of healthcare applications. In...
Whilst there has been considerable research focus on the user experience of using NFC enabled mobile phones interacting with tags or objects, the ability to perform peer to peer contact has been given little consideration and is often dismissed as being only useful for setting up a connection or transferring business cards. In this research, we present two games that show how the intimate nature of...
The NFC Forum has released a first candidate for their Signature Record Type Definition. This specification adds digital signatures to the NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF), which is a standardized format for storing formatted data on NFC (Near Field Communication) tags and for transporting data across a peer-to-peer links between NFC devices. With an increasing number of applications of the NFC and...
Patient data, particularly emergency data, must be available to medical personnel within a short time frame and independent of potential interruption of (mobile) network connections. Additionally, medical data is confidential information that must not openly be available to anyone with physical access to the storage media. The planned German electronic Health Card (eHC) is supposed to hold emergency...
The use of games in the teaching-learning process has been proved to be useful, not only for a better understanding of the concepts, but also for students motivation through solving challenges and for developing the right professional aptitudes. In this paper the use of an ubiquitous game is proposed, this game is based in Near Field Communication technology, that it brings together the characteristics...
This paper presents two different approaches to visualise information from culture, media and creative industries by using RFID based tracking and identification. Besides the required RFID backend, the paper also introduces the information system built on top of the backend. The first approach is based on passive RFID whereas the second uses active RFID. In particular, the differences in the processing...
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