246 research outputs found
The survey on Near Field Communication
PubMed ID: 26057043Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging short-range wireless communication technology that offers great and varied promise in services such as payment, ticketing, gaming, crowd sourcing, voting, navigation, and many others. NFC technology enables the integration of services from a wide range of applications into one single smartphone. NFC technology has emerged recently, and consequently not much academic data are available yet, although the number of academic research studies carried out in the past two years has already surpassed the total number of the prior works combined. This paper presents the concept of NFC technology in a holistic approach from different perspectives, including hardware improvement and optimization, communication essentials and standards, applications, secure elements, privacy and security, usability analysis, and ecosystem and business issues. Further research opportunities in terms of the academic and business points of view are also explored and discussed at the end of each section. This comprehensive survey will be a valuable guide for researchers and academicians, as well as for business in the NFC technology and ecosystem.Publisher's Versio
LOCATION-BASED MARKETING: CONCEPTS, TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES
siirretty Doriast
An Analysis of Features and Tendencies in Mobile Banking Apps
Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are being employed alongside personal computers, and even replacing them in some applications. Banks are increasingly investing on mobility, by enabling the mobile web and mobile app channels for online banking, and by providing new mobile payment services. In this paper, the services for off-branch banking offered by several Italian banks are analyzed, showing that mobile apps have surpassed the mobile web channel in completeness of the offer, due to the fact that additional capabilities of mobile devices make possible advanced features and applications. An outlook on the near future is provided, remarking that mobile marketing and mobile recommender systems can greatly take advantage of being run natively on devices, making it desirable for businesses to invest on designing mobile apps
Location-based Marketing: the academic framework
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.Over the last several years one could observe revolution in location-based
technologies and geospatial information. Location awareness of mobile devices
resulted in development of Location-Based Services (LBS) that are realization of that
revolution in the most personal and contextual way. The ability to reach consumers
in the highly targeted manner based on spatio-temporal criteria, attracted marketers
from the early beginning of LBS creating field called Location-Based Marketing.
Today decreasing prices of smartphones and wireless internet, as well as integration
of location-aware mobile solutions and social media is leading to new possibilities
and opportunities. The academic and professional interests of the author made him noticed that
although the industry has challenged a significant development, there is lack of
publications that would put an academic framework on that progress. The research
has fulfilled this gap by extensive investigation of the current state of the art of
Location-Based Marketing and its foundations - Location Based Services.
The dissertation provides academic framework by comprehensive analysis of the
Location-Based Marketing from LBS and marketing perspective. Further the thesis is
addressing the issue of significant discrepancy between theoretical concepts of
measurable Location-Based Social Media data and the actual data than can be legally
accessed and used for marketing analysis purposes by investigation a case study of
Location-Based Social Network - Foursqaure and Location-Based Analytics platform
VenueLabs
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