A Proposed Architecture for Building NFC Tag Services

Abstract

In recent years, there are various smart phones equipping with NFC (Near Field Communication), which motivates developers to create new and innovative applications. Especially, the combination of NFC smart phones with the NFC tags that can store small amounts of data makes possible variety of business opportunities. The current paper presents an architecture for building NFC tag services, where developers, as well as service providers can make their own applications and NFC tags. The architecture contains an application framework and an NFC tag management platform. The benefit of the framework is that the technological details are hidden from the application developers thus they can focus only on the proper implementation of the business logic and the user interface. And the NFC tag management platform is proposed to implement uniform management of NFC tag data.