NFC Use Cases

 

NFC is an ecosystem with new services, new opportunities, and intersection of multiple industries. Target Verticals that can benefit from NFC are financial services, transportation, retail, health care, Machine to Machine (M2M), automotive, travel and entertainment, consumer Electronics and many more.

The following are use cases for different kinds of applications:

 

Access Control / Mobile Key

• Ensure secured office area access for personnel with NFC phone and contactless reader
• Use NFC phone to access to the hotel rooms
• Use NFC phone to board public transit

 

Advertising / Promotion

• Use NFC tags to deliver coupons
• Use NFC tags to deliver mobile apps

 

Asset Management

• Use NFC phones to read smart tags per product for inventory control
• Use NFC phone and tags to keep track of library books

 

Configuration Management

• Use NFC phone to configure settings on different devices; for example; switching speaker on to play music in a particular setting; switching WI-FI off in a particular setting.

 

Connectivity

• Quick and secure WLAN set-up
• Fast data transfer
• Audio handover

 

ID Management

• Use NFC phones to authenticate a person’s identity for a loyalty program
• Use NFC phone for digital signature applications

 

Information Exchange

• Use NFC phones to exchange data or contact information
• Use NFC phones to exchange photos

 

Information Gathering

• Read product history from smart tag to NFC phone
• Use NFC phones to read patient history from smart card or phone-to-phone

 

Mobile Payment

• Secure payment with NFC phones at contactless POS

 

Pairing NFC Devices

• Home computer components
• In-car devices
• Home entertainment systems
• Headsets and handsets
• Cameras and printers / digital frames

 

Reporting

• Use NFC phones to track patient visits
• Record activities performed by health care workers with NFC devices and smart tags
• M2M cases by reading information and writing to the NFC tags