NFC Explained

What is NFC?

   NFC(Near Feild Communication) is a technology used mostly in smart phones to communicate between two devices with less battery usage,The NFC works when two devices comes closer let's say a distance not more than 10cm. we don't need any pairing options like to enter code like bluetooth

Is your device NFC enabled?

    

NFC enabled through battery

    For any communication between any devices requires antenna's someof the devices they are present in the batteries which helps the devices to communicate

NFC chip inside the back panel

    some of the devices will have NFC inside there back panel as shown in the image as you can see they have two metal connectors on the back panel when they connect with the inner metal dots which are connected with the mother board helps in communication.

    In case of current devices NFC will be found in High-End devices because all devices are coming with non-removal back panels to find out is our device is NFC enabled or not follow these steps

        1.Go to settings of your device

                  2.Next go to connected devices 

                  3.if you find an NFC option enable it  

 

    Top 5 uses of NFC :

 1.Data Transfer: 

Data transfer

        If you have two devices which are NFC enabled then what we need to do is to get them closer

or make devices come contact to each other that's we will find a notification on both devices like you want to receive or send then select appropriate options thats it your data will be transferred 

without any pairing or no need to type any code.

        2.Pairing a new device:

Device Pairing

       The Another Useful feature of NFC is pairing.In case imagine if you have any bluetooth speaker with NFC enabled let's say I wanted to connect a new device we need to disconnect the present device and again start pairing and we have to press yes in bluetooth its a bit tough but by using NFC we can create it just by one tap

        

    3.Payments:

Payments using NFC

        Almost in everyday life we come across swiping machines or terminals which we used pay by swiping our cards.This can be done more easily by NFC just by tapping our mobile phone which contains the virtual credit or debit card helps to pay easily.Almost all terminals are nowadays are NFC enabled.Another interesting fact is that our credit or debit cards(ex:visa) comes with NFC 

    

        4.NFC Tags:

       

NFC tags

 

 

        NFC tags are just a kind of storage device which stores a small information like wifi password or contact details etc..For example if somebody comes home and if they wants to connect to our WIFI we don't need to tell them password just by enabling the NFC and a single tap on the tag automatically connects to the WIFI

        

        5.NFC Business cards:

   

NFC Business card

    

        NFC Business card is used by businessmen who carries a visiting card.Instead of visiting card we can use these NFC business cards which not only contains the details physically on the card but also when we turn on NFC on our mobile and tap on that card the additional information like his website,social media links everything will appears and his contact will be saved in our device with only a single tap.

            This is done by a chip present inside the NFC card.

        

 

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    Name: Asif Shaik

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