Product Showcase
While there are millions of things that include NFC technology, below are some of the more innovative and interesting implementations on the market today.
NOUMI
2024 Innovation Award Winner! The NOUMI device is an innovative, patented plug-and-play solution that allows retail customers to collect digital copies of their receipts via a simple TAP, similar to Apple & Google Pay. Positioned between the EPOS and the thermal printer, NOUMI intercepts the print data and decodes it (ESC/POS), enabling customers to tap their phone on the NOUMI Device to collect digital receipts onto the NOUMI App. NOUMI is NFC and BLE enabled, meaning image-based receipts are also supported, offering a versatile solution for modern retail environments. This device is USB powered, ensuring minimal power consumption while providing maximum functionality. Apart from the ecological benefits With NOUMI, customers can effortlessly collect digital copies of their receipts with a simple TAP on the device, unlocking a world of rewards. Our strap-line, “It all starts with a digital receipt,” emphasizes the beginning of a seamless and rewarding customer experience.
NFC IC PQ201-S
2024 Innovation Award Winner! PQ201S is designed specifically for the intelligent packaging market. It features a PUF security feature, leveraging proprietary chip design and cloud-based authentication. The novelty security features address vulnerabilities around brand protection by mitigating the risk of replay attacks and data sniffing. No native app download is required to verify product authenticity and as the user taps the NFC it launches a contextual, personalized CX driven by ProQure's Composable CX OS. The overall end-to-end solution presents a compelling cost-benefit and reduces the time to deployment by 99% through the Composable CX OS. The solution provides a contextual, personalized, and instant digital CX at every step of the customer journey. The ability to do so is tightly integrated with ProQure's sophisticated CX platfrom. Since our solution is consumer-centric, NFC is pivotal in delivering frictionless and rewarding CX for everyday consumer products and digital retail environments.
bluon.me Semiperdo smart wristband
2024 Innovation Award Winner! The bluon.me Semiperdo smart wristband for children offers outstanding safety and convenience with its built-in NFC tag. The wristband seamlessly communicates with smartphones through the embedded NFC tag in the elastic fabric. By simply tapping the wristband, a web page opens that instantly sends the child's location to the parents, using the phone of the person who finds them. Perfect for crowded environments such as beaches or shopping malls, this wristband minimizes the time between a child going missing and being found. It provides immediate access to the parents' contact details and initiates an automatic chat where essential first aid info can be shared. Weighing less than 2 grams, the wristband is incredibly lightweight, waterproof, and highly durable. Its lack of a battery ensures it is comfortable for any child to wear. Trusted by over 80,000 children throughout Europe, the bluon.me Semiperdo smart wristband is an ideal choice for ensuring child safety and peace of mind.
Battery-less Smart Padlock
2024 Innovation Award Winner! Erisco's electronic locks utilize NFC to harvest power from the user's phone as well as authenticate the user. Our locks are never online, all communication with the lock is via NFC. We have no battery on our locks, each interaction utilizes power harvested from the user's phone. We have developed and patented a high efficiency coil which optimizes energy harvesting over a variety of phones, to allow for very quick energy transfer while also allowing for reasonable data transfer rates. We utilize 256 AES encryption together with X509 certificates to manage permissions, allowing for our product to be secure and to scale for use by corporate customers. Our locks have many more features which we would be happy to discuss. From a purely NFC perspective, the quick energy transfer via our patented coil across multiple end user devices is what makes our product unique.
App Creator
2024 Innovation Award Winner! NFC mobiles allow intuitive, secure connection to everything from objects to appliances, making NFC app creation a key capability for product designers. To simplify this, IoTize offers them App Creator - a low-code environment for designing apps with minimal expertise and effort. App Creator offers a WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop editor for rapid UI design using libraries of graphical interface components. Then, in its data flow editor, designers build their app logic by simply linking nodes from NFC, math, logic, and other function libraries. They test UIs directly on smartphones thus speeding up iterations of tests and corrections. Only when ready do they transfer their UI to the app generator to build Android and iOS apps for publication. Designers can now easily create NFC apps that configure appliances, transmit access codes, or even decrypt secure ID data. These are just a few of the samples already available to help them master NFC tags and create their next NFC-enabled products.
Apple Wallet NFC-supported access solutions for enterprises
2022 Innovation Award Winner! For hotels, via Mobile Access from ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions, room keys in Apple Wallet delivers an easy and contactless experience from check-in to check out. From a hotel’s mobile app, guests can add their room key to Apple Wallet on iPhone or Apple Watch for easy access to guest rooms and other secured areas of the hotel. Addressing modern guest expectations for near-instantaneous room access, room keys in Apple Wallet represents a ‘tipping point’ in creating a digital game-changing experience that will drive an increase in digital key platform adoption rates. Beyond enhancing guest convenience, room keys in Apple Wallet sidesteps the hassle of printing physical keys for hotel guests. With room keys in Apple Wallet on iPhone and Apple Watch, hotel staff can streamline key distribution and management across an entire property in just a few simple steps.
Apple Wallet NFC-supported access solutions for campuses
2022 Innovation Award Winner! With employee badge and student IDs in Apple Wallet, offered by HID Global, users can access office doors, elevators, turnstiles, multi-function printers, dorms, libraries and much more using just their iPhone or Apple Watch. It’s easy, convenient and secure. It integrates into existing access control systems, is simple to distribute and manage, and takes advantage of the built-in security features of iPhone and Apple Watch.
Spoken RX
2022 Innovation Award Winner! Spoken RX in an NFC enabled solution that provides accessibility for the visually impaired so that prescription medication information is read aloud to alleviate any confusion regarding medication patients are taking. CVS and the American Council for the Blind wanted to address the challenges visually impaired patients face. Due to size limitations, adding braille or increasing font size on pill bottles was challenging. Identiv’s RFID tag and proprietary Sporeader and encoding technology became the driver of this solution, known as Spoken RX.
Powered by NFC: How Blue Bite Helped eBay Usher in a Tech-Led Reimagination
2022 Innovation Award Winner! In collaboration with eBay, Blue Bite introduced the Authenticity Guarantee, an innovative NFC-powered program that provides assurance of the authenticity of online purchases, including refurbished items, thereby dramatically improving the transaction experience for eBay consumers and sellers. Visit Blue Bite for more information.
Automated Inventory Solution
2022 Innovation Award Winner! Centiloc has developed an automated inventory solution based on NFC. This helps companies to make their inventory by connecting their stock on shelves, in real time, to their ERP, WMS, PLM or MES. The system will give the complete list of products and their respective position at the cm level. This helps also to find products, thanks to a dynamic Pick to Light System. Learn more and visit Centiloc.
Wizway Mobile Ticketing
Wizway proposes a solution to digitize transit cards into travelers’ NFC smartphones, and manages secure access for 1 or more transit mobile applications. Wizway manages the digital card lifecycle (loss, theft, etc.), and maintains the solution’s compatibility with all phones types.
ReadID
The big iOS 13 change for NFC was the ability to read passport chips. Verifying people’s identity is essential in preventing identity fraud and enabling trustworthy digital services. ReadID is the first and leading solution for verifying identity documents using smartphones’ NFC. The combination of identity documents with contactless chips and NFC-capable smartphones is the cornerstone of ReadID. ReadID was the first identity document verification app available in general, and on iOS 13 specifically.
EnOcean Tool
EnOcean has developed its own app called “EnOcean Tool” for an easy configuration and commissioning of EnOcean NFC devices such as the new multisensor, the next-generation PTM and the new motion sensor. The app serves as a configuration interface between NFC devices and NFC readers such as NFC-enabled smartphones or tablets.