Breakthrough Technology to Enable Item-Level Intelligence

Near Field Communications (NFC) describes a range of wireless solutions designed to connect consumers to a wide variety of services in a simple, intuitive way. NFC is designed to maximize the user experience, streamline transactions, and reduce consumer frustration. NFC is a contactless technology, which means that metal connections or plugs are not needed to transfer data. Unlike other wireless technologies, NFC requires no time-consuming and frustrating discovery or pairing steps to connect to another NFC device. To take action, users simply tap an NFC-compatible device to an NFC tag, phone, or payment terminal. In this way, users can retrieve locally relevant content, transfer files and contact information, and send or receive a secure payment in a fraction of a second.

Many types of devices can be used as NFC readers, and the mobile phone is widely expected to become the world’s most popular type of NFC reader. Analysts predict that sales of NFC-enabled phones will grow steadily to hundreds of millions per year. Top mobile phone and wireless chipset manufacturers, mobile network operators, and software/app vendors have stated support for NFC and begun aggressive deployment of NFC-based products and services.

Kovio products and solutions enable a wide variety of tag-based applications. Kovio 2K products are available in multiple form factors to enable contactless cards, stickers, smart posters, and countless other NFC-enabled products. Kovio RF Barcode products will extend the convenience and power of real-time personalized permission marketing to everyday consumer products. Contact Kovio to request more information about Kovio products.