NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION - NFC (2 days) Module designed and coordinated by Serge Miranda, Professor, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France)

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a new short-range wireless connectivity technology with high expectations for innovative information services that emerged from the combination of contactless identification (RFID Radio Frequency Identification) and cell phones. NFC was launched on 2004 by Philips (NXP), Sony and Nokia. NFC can be used with a large variety of devices for touching connectivity: consumer electronics, mobile devices, and PCs. Consumers will be able to easily access a variety of services (payment, transport, travel, infotainment, culture,...) and conveniently exchange information with a simple touch gesture utilizing NFC technology. This module aims to deal with the following topics: market issues and forecasts, overview og major NFC deployments, key technologies and standards, interoperability, architecture and developments, applications & services, and academic NFC projects.

Who should attend:                                                                                                                           
Marketing managers, Project managers, mobile operators, service providers                                                                                                                                  
What you will learn
This module aims to deal with the following topics: market issues and forecasts, overview og major NFC deployments, key technologies and standards, interoperability, architecture and developments, applications & services, and academic NFC projects.

Key topics:
Communicating objects -  standards – architectures – industrial overview


SEPT. 18

9.00 am – 12.30 am
Strategic vision on wireless information services of the future integrating communicating objects (RFID , NFC, captors/sensors, ...)
Serge Miranda, Professor, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis

• Major trends : BIP, TAG, AVI S, ...
• Convergence : IP, Multimedia, mobiles
• Communicating objects and their integration in added-value information services (fast and simple): touch based and location based
• 1DL ive demos (art) and videos on POC projects developed at the University of Nice in the area of Health, Travel, m-Payment, fair trade and cars

2.00 pm – 5.30 pm
NFC standards and NFC Forum
Thomas de Lazzari, NFC Project Manager and Winner (City Life category) of the NFC Awards 2007

• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID ) NFC and Touch based services from an architectural point of view
• Contactless 13,56Mhz, Type A, B and Sony
• Mifare, Felica, Topaz formats
• NFC market and availability
• Complementarity with Bluetooth
• Security SIM /Smart card
• Interoperability, standards, GSM association and ETSI vision


SEPT. 19

9.00 am – 11.00 am
Developing a mobile NFC application in Java (architecture and SDK)
Thomas de Lazzari, NFC Project Manager and Winner (City Life category) of the NFC Awards 2007

• Development kits (SDK) and JSR 257
• Development platforms
• An application development example on the new Nokia 6131
• Reading and Writing an NF C tag
• Present issues in NFC application development (certification, ...)

11.00 am – 12.30 am
NFC Solutions Development with the Gemalto Developer Suite
Li Haixue - Gemalto

2.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Digital Product Design for NFC
Florian Resatsch - Servtag (Germany) and Daniel Michelis - University St. Gallen (Switzerland)

4.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Two industry round tables
Pascal Verveur - Orange, Daniel Michelis - University of St Gallen (Switzerland) et Florian Resatsch - Servtag (Germany)
Moderator: Serge Miranda

• NFC: New services and integrators
• The future of NFC by the key players


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