Near Field Communication (NFC)

What is NFC


Simply speaking, it is a technology that combines the funtion as a RFID tag and the function as a RFID reader! NFC defines three communication modes: peer-to-peer mode, read/write mode, and NFC card emulation mode. 

• http://www.nfc-forum.org/home/
• http://www.stolpan.com
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Field_Communicati
• http://www.itdaily.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=18297 (In Korean)

Standards

• ISO/IEC 14443 : Identification cards, Contactless integrated circuit cards, Proximity cards
• ISO/IEC 18092 : NFCIP-1 (NFC Interface Protocols) http://www.nfc-world.com/en/about/ 참고
• JIS X 6319-4 : FeliCa
• ISO/IEC 15693 : Vicinity cards

Research Institute

• http://www.nfc-research.at
• http://mocs.vtt.fi/

NFC Implementations


Android NFC API supports Read NDEF messages, and SUN JSR-257 supports read/write mode and NFC card emulation mode. NFCIP and Libnfc support peer-to-peer mode in Java and in C, respectively.

• Open NFC Software Stack : http://www.open-nfc.org sponsored by InsideSecure
• Hardware neutral due to NFC HAL
• Available  for Android, PC, WinCE, Linux, Java Applets, and Java Apps
• Android 2.3 : http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/NFCDemo/
• The Android NFC API in Gingerbread supports an adapter to NFC device and a NDEF(NFC Data Exchange Format) message library.
• SUN, The Contact less Communication API, JSR-257 http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javame/nfc/
• NFCIP (Peer 2 Peer) in Java SE and MIDP : http://code.google.com/p/nfcip-java/
• Libnfc in C : http://www.libnfc.org/
• Stollmann http://www.stollmann.de/en/stacks/nfc.html
• Trusted Logic : http://www.trusted-logic.com/spip.php?rubrique27
• Open Source Library to enable P2P over NFC (available for Android) :  http://code.google.com/p/ismb-npp-java/

 Workshop

• RFID Security : http://www.rfid-sec.org/
• Global NFC Congress : http://www.wima.mc/
• NFC Forum Spotlight for Developers :  http://www.nfc-forum.org/events/oulu_spotlight/
• Global NFC Applications Products & Services Congress : http://www.wima.mc/

News on 2011's NFC

• Near Field Communication World : http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/
• http://stonefocus.thoth.kr/?mid=blog&document_srl=7563920 (In Korean)
• http://www.zdnet.co.kr/Contents/2010/10/13/zdnet20101013100228.htm (In Korean)

Products

• NXP Mifare http://mifare.net
• Samsung Nexus S used the NXP PN544 chip.

NFC Applications

• MyNFC, an open source, Java Script based development environment
• It looks like web widgets supporting NFC interfaces. But not sure how NFC tags are integrated into the Java Script environment. 
• http://daw.mynfc.org/mynfc.org
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/mynfc/develop