Near Field Communications
Increase efficiency, make staff more accountable via the mobile phoneThe use of contactless technology has revolutionised many business processes. Adding a mobile phone has made remote worker management, lone worker protection, asset management and inventory control truly mobile.
MoCo has developed Touch, a bespoke service offering a combined hardware, airtime and software solution to suit all requirements. More info...
The Touch solution is robust, secure, flexible and economical and has been developed in partnership with a globally acknowledged leader in NFC technology. It is already delivering substantial productivity, efficiency and environmental benefits to public and private sector bodies around the world. More info...
Through strategically placing RFID tags at required fixed or mobile locations - or on objects that need to be tracked - organisations can obtain and log real-time information about the whereabouts and activity of people and assets, simply by getting employees to touch their NFC phone against or near a tag. Information about the location or asset can then be exchanged between the user of the device and the server. Examples include:
An NFC phone touched against an RFID tag will confirm the location of a particular employee at a particular time. |
Information can be sent back to the server that reveals the presence of assets (and therefore missing ones), or items that require maintenance or replacement. |
NFC is a short-range, standards based
wireless connectivity technology, based
on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
technology that uses magnetic field
induction to enable communications
between electronic devices or tags
in close proximity.
Typically, devices must be within 0-10 cm
to enable data transfer, but the need for
the devices to touch can be enforced.
Nokia has recently launched the 6212, a
relatively basic and low cost mobile phone,
which has NFC capability embedded in
the device. This adds mobile phone
functionality to the arena, which most
importantly allows user defined data
captured by the phone
to be transferred via GPRS
to a remote secure
sever in real-time.
