This presentation will cover NFC from the fundamental principles to  commercial scale implementation considerations. The talk will include  demonstrations of tag programming using an NFC mobile phone handset. White papers and technical support will be available for delegates to  take away and sample tags can be requested for trialling at the end of  the workshop.

Real life application demonstrations of smart posters for a number of  commercial and informational purposes. NFC Bluetooth pairing, and other  non-payment NFC applications including competition finalist entries from  our recent NFC Innovation Awards.

Now that international standards have been agreed and published for Near  Field Communication (NFC), the market is set for widespread adoption of  the technology in a whole range of applications.

Innovision sees three key areas of application for NFC: service  initiation, where the technology is used to ‘unlock’ another service  (such as opening another communication link for data transfer);  peer-to-peer, where NFC is used to enable communication between two  devices; and payment & ticketing, where NFC will build on the emerging  smart ticketing and electronic payment infrastructures.

The initial mass-market applications of NFC are likely to build on  existing communications infrastructure and user behaviour, where the user benefits are most compelling, the business case is strongest, and  the commercial risks are lowest. This implies a need for low-cost NFC  integrated circuits (ICs) that can be applied to a broad range of uses  cost-effectively in a way that is compatible with the broadest range of  devices and reader infrastructure.

This workshop sets out to enable delegates to programme tags for a  variety of applications, to appreciate the differences between tag  types, offers suggestions and examples of applications and offers a realistic roadmap for the future of NFC implementation.