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NFC Forum Story
1. The NFC Forum mark is registered in the U.S. and other countries.
THE NFC FORUM STORY
Preeti Ohri Khemani
Chair
June 22, 2022
2. Nearly half (47%) of
consumers surveyed use
NFC-enabled contactless
cards phones and/or
wearables daily
3. ABI RESEARCH GLOBAL END USER SURVEY RESULTS
Nearly half (47%) of
consumer prefer their
phone or watch
over contactless card
View the full report here: https://nfc-forum.org/resources/abi-end-use-survey/
Nearly half (47%) use it
daily and basically
everyone (99%) uses it at
least 1x/month
Most everyone (82%) has
two or more cards in their
Digital Wallet
4. ONE OF THE MOST PROLIFIC TECHNOLOGIES
ON THE PLANET
2.87 bil.
smartphone users
worldwide in 2022
64
NFC-enabled devices are
produced approximately every
second
20%
of the world’s population
and growing uses NFC in
their daily life
Billions Of People Use NFC Around The World
5. NFC IS EVERYWHERE!
Nike NFC-enabled
NBA Jerseys
Mercedes-Benz &
Samsung NFC Car Key
JR East NFC-enabled
Mobile SUICA
6. NFC IS EVERYWHERE AND IN EVERYTHING!
Credit Cards Jewelry Accessories
8. SIMPLY SAID; NFC IS CONTACTLESS IN MOBILE:
IC Card → Optimum in-service performance
Operator A Operator B Operator C
Carry many
Mobile NFC → Global inter-service operation is priority
Carry only one
9. NFC AS DEFINED BY THE NFC FORUM
MODES AND COMPATIBILITY
Global Interoperability
Form Factor Free
Card
(ID-1)
NFC Tag
(Type 1-5)
Device
Mobile, Terminals
NFC Operates in Four Modes
NFC-A
ISO/IEC 14443/18092
NFC-B
ISO/IEC 14443
NFC-F
ISO/IEC 18092
NFC-V
ISO/IEC 15693
NFC is Compatible with Global Communications Standards
10. UNIQUENESS OF NFC AS AN RF INTERFACE
NFC Forum Specifications provide transactions that are:
Intended
Starts at touch, and ends
when removed, thus
secure
Intuitive
Just a tap user
friendliness
2-way data
communication +
simultaneous
power delivery
Enhances security
QR is 1-way data, and
cannot deliver power
Globally
interoperable
Supported natively by
major device OSs
11. THE NFC FORUM AT A GLANCE
The NFC Forum has 200+ member organizations and is
the world's leading standards and advocacy association
for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.
As NFC Forum Chair it is my pleasure to welcome you to our Open Forum. Thank you for joining us.
For the next five minutes I’m going to tell you a story.
The story is about a technology we come into contact with almost daily and but rarely notice. We rarely notice it because the technology – Near Field Communication – simply put, just works. NFC works with contactless credit cards and with Apple Pay and Google Pay. You can start your car with it, unlock a hotel door, use for your mobile driver’s license – the list goes on and on..
All of these activities include NFC.
Now, let’s learn more about NFC . . .
The NFC Forum story started two decades ago. Today, NFC is one of the most used technologies on the planet. It is woven into the fabric of the daily lives of billions of people. These statistics are from a recent study by ABI Research on the NFC user experience. NFC contactless cards still lead the market but wearables and smartphones are rapidly catching up. Let’s see what the statistics say.
That first statistic on the last slide is from an NFC Forum sponsored global research study by ABI Research. The survey tells an evolving NFC story. Although NFC is found in most contactless cards, wearables and smartphones are rapidly becoming a preferred way of using NFC. The contactless cards are now being stored in the digital wallet. NFC is truly everywhere and being used by more and more people.
Can we consider NFC successful?
Frankly, It’s not a question of is NFC successful. Instead, it is a question of how successful can NFC become?
According to Statistica, three billion smartphones are in use putting NFC literally right in the hands of people.
NFC Forum data shows that about 60 NFC-enabled devices are produced per second in the world including a growing variety of wearables
IHS numbers show that 20% of the world’s population can use NFC today.
NFC is already successful. How successful it becomes is in our hands, literally
NFC is mainstream and out-front. It is versatile and used in countless applications around the globe.
You see NFC being used by Nike in sports apparel. The automotive industry and close to 100% of the 39 major car brands according to an NFC Forum survey use NFC for multiple applications. It is also very important in transportation where it plays a key role as an enabler of Mobility-aa-a-Service or MaaS in upwards of a 1,000 cities in the world.
Anywhere you need to offer access, information, identity or to initiate an action, NFC can play a role. Some countries and states are even testing mobile driver’s licenses using NFC on your smartphone.
The most common and well-recognized item NFC is associated with are contactless credit cards. But did you know NFC is also, increasingly, being added to jewelry and various accessories? Some people have embedded an NFC chip in their hand. It’s a messy procedure that we won’t go into now!
Lately, it is this contactless nature of NFC that is helping to further proliferate the technology due to COVID-19 concerns.
NFC is a standards-based short-range wireless connectivity technology that makes your smartphones, wearables, tablets and other devices even smarter. NFC is built into billions of NFC-enabled devices in use and is compatible with hundreds of millions of contactless cards and readers already deployed worldwide.
Briefly touch (or ‘tap’) your NFC-enabled smartphone to another NFC-enabled object to share pictures, play music, make payments, access useful information, and more easily set up Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections. No PIN codes, camera-based scanners, or wires are required to use this simple, intuitive technology.
Wireless charging was just introduced last year and soon you’ll be able to wirelessly charge small IoT devices like earbuds with your mobile phone thanks to NFC.
NFC is a unique technology.
I encourage you to check us out online. The non-profit NFC Forum is the world’s leading standards and advocacy association for NFC Technology. We have approximately 200 members worldwide both B2B and B2C. Many of which you know like these shown on this slide. We also have a good mix of startups and other innovative companies that you might not have heard of – yet.
The NFC Forum creates the technical specifications and standards that drive NFC innovation in key areas like UX. We focus our activities in the retail, identity, mobility and transportation, automobile and IoT markets. Contact me if you’d like to know how you can get involved in our work.
The NFC Forum brings the convenience of NFC technology to life. We empower organizations to deliver secure, tap-based interactions with an intuitive, reliable experience to users around the globe.