Unlike with RFID, NFC readers aren't always specialized devices | For most of us, that's our smartphone or smartwatch and the apps we install on it |
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Tap the tag with your device, and you're directed to a website touting a candidate's credentials | At the same time, you also instantly receive a snappy biography in the form of a text file and image |
"Broadcom Announces New Embedded NFC Tag Technology to Simplify Wireless Device Connectivity.
19Tags with higher memory and larger antennas are bigger in physical size | Courtesy NFC Forum You can call them smart tags, info tags or, in this case, NFC tags, but their basic architecture is similar to RFID tags |
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Although all NFC tags are read-only, types 1, 2 and 3 can be rewritten | Senior Principal System Architect at NXP |
To pay for your purchase, you just log in to your phone to approve the sale and move the phone close to the NFC reader at the checkout.