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Mobile Phones And Pda 's With Bluetooth Capabilities

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NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION
ABSTRACT
Nowadays there is an abundant use of mobile phones and PDA’s with Bluetooth capability and some of the devices are even the NFC enabled devices. In order for NFC enabled devices, consumer services and payment are rapidly adopted in the consumer market. NFC technology can help in improving services at a higher efficiency.
1. INTRODUCTION
NFC is an extension of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). RFID combines the interface of a smart card and a reader into a single device.
NFC is a short range wireless technology that provides secured two-way interaction between electronic devices. Here, the communications are established in a simple way i.e. it does not require any special set-up by the users which is …show more content…

NFC, due to its shorter range provides a higher security than Bluetooth. Thus it makes NFC suitable for crowded areas where correlating a signal with its transmitting physical device might otherwise prove impossible.
1.1 Evolution of NFC:
Sony and Philips have taken the lead and developed the technology. It follows from the proprietary smart card protocols and can be seen as an initiative to move forward the contact-less ticketing and payment applications which can be seen as the next stage in this market. The standard for this technology was approved on 8th December, 2003. Later this standard was approved as an ECMA standard. The next stage in the standardization process came when Nokia, Sony and Philips formed the NFC forum on 18th march, 2004.The NFC forum developed quickly.
In June, 2006 NFC forum formally outlined the architecture for NFC technology. In August 2006, the NFC Forum released the first four forum approved specifications.
1.3 Differences between NFC and RFID:
NFC is different from other wireless technologies like Bluetooth, WI-Fi, RFID etc.
Bluetooth: Although NFC and Bluetooth are used to transfer data but Bluetooth can enable users to transfer the data over longer distances compared to NFC, which can only transfer data over shorter distances.
Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi is designed for LAN, which is not a short range peer to peer technology.
RFID: RFID can be used in any frequency or standard that is being used but NFC

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