History
NFC traces its roots back to radio-frequency identification, or RFID. RFID allows a reader to send radio waves to a passive electronic tag for identification, authentication and tracking.
- 1983 The first patent to be associated with the abbreviation RFID was granted to Charles Walton.
- 1995 wallet paying and receiving electronic, described in the report and annexes describing the invention of Gaston Schwabacher in 0017 patented protocol 24/01/1995 at INPI Brazil with the IP number 9500345
- 2004 Nokia, Philips and Sony established the Near Field Communication (NFC) Forum
- 2006 Initial specifications for NFC Tags
- 2006 Specification for "SmartPoster" records
- 2006 Nokia 6131 was the first NFC phone
- 2009 In January, NFC Forum released Peer-to-Peer standards to transfer contact, URL, initiate Bluetooth, etc.
- 2010 Samsung Nexus S: First Android NFC phone shown
- 2011 Google I/O "How to NFC" demonstrates NFC to initiate a game and to share a contact, URL, app, video, etc.
- 2011 NFC support becomes part of the Symbian mobile operating system with the release of Symbian Anna version.
- 2011 Research In Motion is the first company for its devices to be certified by MasterCard Worldwide, the functionality of PayPass
- 2012 March. EAT, a well known UK restaurant chain and Everything Everywhere (Orange Mobile Network Operator) partner on the UK's first nationwide NFC enabled smartposter campaign. (lead by Rene' Batsford, Head of ICT for EAT, also known for deploying the UK's first nationwide contactless payment solution in 2008) A specially created mobile phone app is triggered when the NFC enabled mobile phone comes into contact with the smartposter.
- 2012 Sony introduces the "Smart Tags", which use NFC technology to change modes and profiles on a Sony smartphone at close range, included in the package of (and "perfectly paired" with) the Sony Xperia P Smartphone released the same year.
- 2012 Samsung introduces TecTile; a set of MIFARE NFC stickers and a companion application for Android to read and write the TecTile stickers, and design macros that can be triggered by them.
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