What is NFC (Near Field communication technology)?

Imagine using you phone in the same way you use some of your Smart Cards like your credit cards and membership passes, where you touch and go. Today Smart cards based upon RFID technology give users capabilities such as credit cards and Loyalty cards and travel cards.

A new generation of Mobile Phones called Near Field Communication ( NFC ) mobile phones give you this capability as they have this type of technology built into the phone.NFC, which is also known with the shorthand for “Near Field communication” is a very short-range i.e., max 20 cm wireless point-to-point interconnection technology which was evolved from a combination of earlier RFID contactless identification and interconnection technologies.

With NFC phones the phone acts as a Smart Card or a Smart Card reader which means the phone can be touched against a NFC Card or NFC Tag and receive information. This information will enable the phone to visit mobile internet sites, send messages or other information just by tapping the phone against a NFC Card.

NFC defines the content of such tags to allow interoperability between readers (like in mobile phones) and tags. Service tags are NFC compatible tags (short NFC tags) allowing access to a Web site via storing a URL, (also called "Smart Poster“ application) or allowing call back requests or SMS services via the NFC mobile phone. Service tags are supported as a standard feature by the Nokia NFC phone. Furthermore NFC tags can carry application specific information. The content of these tags are handled by Java applications stored in the mobile phone.

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