The NFC Forum, the standards body for Near Field Communication, has detailed its key plans and research efforts between now and 2028.
Forum members include Apple, Google, Qualcomm, Sony, NXP and Huawei - a group that builds and packages plenty of NFC chips into plenty of devices. The group's roadmap is therefore a decent hint at the kind of experience that will come to smartphones and other NFC-equipped kit in coming years.
The Forum's five "roadmap innovation priorities" are as follows:
The Forum has warned world+dog that not all of the above will land together - or by 2028.
"The individual work items are currently in varying stages of development, ranging from research to market requirements to draft specifications," the org advised, adding that it will "collaborate with its 400 members and various industry bodies to extend the reach of its roadmap and ensure its work program is complementary to other industry initiatives."
So don't get too excited about fast wireless charging or throwing out your point-of-sale kit just yet.
And if that longer range tech becomes reality, brace for dubious claims of stronger anti-skimming tech to protect the content of your wallets from crims conducting stride-by scanning of your phone or cards. Perhaps prepare, too, for a little more care at point of sale: your correspondent has been known to accidentally pay with my default card before I even had time to select another - and that was with today's less sensitive NFC tech.
The Forum will run a webinar to detail the above plans on June 27 at 09:00 ET/14:00 GMT/22:00 JST, for which you can register here. ®
https://www.theregister.com//2023/06/26/nfc_forum_innovation_roadmap/
Created by Tan KW | Aug 03, 2024
Created by Tan KW | Aug 03, 2024
Created by Tan KW | Aug 03, 2024