What are NFC's
NFC: Near Field Communication
NFC is short-range wireless technology that enables devices to exchange information within a few centimeters with each other, without pairing. Examples of this kind of technology exists with contactless payment from credit cards and mobile devices as well as room key access in hotels.
NFC tags or stickers have a range of 96 to 512 bytes while NFC chips can contain kilobytes and megabytes of data. A byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of 8 bits.
There can be many different uses for NFC’s. Here are just a few:
- A message (text)
- A URL (web address)
- Applications (like Referral Maker)
- Social Networks
- Search Link
- Link to a file (like DropBox or google drive)
- Contact information
- Phone Number
- SMS
- Facetime
- Facetime Audio
- Location (Maps)
- Address
- Bitcoin
- Bluetooth
- WIFI Network
- Data
- Shortcuts