A Comprehensive Guide to NFC Technology: From History to Future Applications

Ciprian Brebu
8 min readDec 24, 2022

The near field communication, or NFC, technology has completely changed how we use gadgets and make payments. We shall look at the past, present, and future of NFC technology in this post.

What is NFC?

A sort of wireless communication technology known as near-field communication, or NFC, enables the transmission of data between devices across relatively short distances. It functions by transferring data between two NFC-enabled devices, such as a smartphone and a payment terminal, utilizing electromagnetic fields.

NFC technology has a maximum range of around 4 inches and works in the 13.56 MHz frequency band. Applications that need for proximity, like contactless payments or data transmission, benefit greatly from its short range.

The capacity of NFC technology to interact with both active and passive devices is one of its fundamental characteristics. While passive devices, like NFC tags, can only react to NFC communication, active devices, like smartphones, can both initiate and respond to NFC communication. This makes a variety of applications and interactions possible.

History of NFC

The idea behind NFC technology was initially created in the 1980s as a method to…

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Ciprian Brebu

Tech-savvy writer and software engineer passionate about security and travel. Sharing insights and adventures through my writing on Medium.