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31/10/2008
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StoLPaN, the pan European consortium driving adoption of near field communications (NFC), is establishing a public trial of the technology in the Dolomite skiing resorts of North East Italy.
Tourists visiting selected hotels will be provided with NFC enabled mobile phones and smart cards that can be used securely in multiple environments in their resort for applications that use different devices and connection technologies including NFC, SMS and barcodes.
Use cases being trialled include delivery of up to date ski and weather reports to phones when devices are waved past NFC enabled active posters, and integration of NFC with SMS and barcode based infrastructures in bars, restaurants and shops to offer customer loyalty schemes.
“Widespread adoption of NFC applications requires simplicity for users. Being able to integrate this exciting technology with existing contactless, MIFARE and barcode environments is crucial to achieve this,” commented Florent Frederix, Head of Sector RFID, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission. “This first open interoperability trial will be a key milestone in positioning Europe as a globally competitive player in the NFC area which will become an important technology for the emerging ‘internet of things’.”
“The trial requires us to bring together different technologies and partners to support our common goal,” commented Francesco Prato, Executive Vice President Ennova Research. “We expect the service and platform deployed in the Veneto region will be ready for widespread commercial deployment in 2010, coinciding with the integration of NFC into significant numbers of mobile phones.”
The trial, organized by StoLPaN, will use different types of NFC enabled phones, contactless point of sales terminals from Ingenico, and NFC and MIFARE technology from NXP Semiconductors.
Consortium members are Motorola, NXP, Auto-ID-Lab St Gallen, Banca Popolare di Vicenza, Bull, Baker & McKenzie, Consorzio Triveneto, Consult Hyperion, Deloitte, Fornax, Libri, Safepay Systems, Sun Microsystems, IQSYS, Ennova, AFF, as well as the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the Budapest Tech John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, the Sheffield Hallam University and the La Sapienza- University of Rome.
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Graham Pitcher
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