Near Field Communication: From theory to practice

This book provides the technical essentials, state-of-the-art knowledge, business ecosystem and standards of Near Field Communication (NFC)by NFC Lab - Istanbul research centre which conducts intense research on NFC technology. In this book, the authors present the contemporary research on all aspects of NFC, addressing related security aspects as well as information on various business models. In addition, the book provides comprehensive information a designer needs to design an NFC project, an analyzer needs to analyze requirements of a new NFC based system, and a programmer needs to implement an application. Furthermore, the authors introduce the technical and administrative issues related to NFC technology, standards, and global stakeholders. It also offers comprehensive information as well as use case studies for each NFC operating mode to give the usage idea behind each operating mode thoroughly. Examples of NFC application development are provided using Java technology, and security considerations are discussed in detail. Key Features: Offers a complete understanding of the NFC technology, including standards, technical essentials, operating modes, application development with Java, security and privacy, business ecosystem analysis Provides analysis, design as well as development guidance for professionals from administrative and technical perspectives Discusses methods, techniques and modelling support including UML are demonstrated with real cases Contains case studies such as payment, ticketing, social networking and remote shopping This book will be an invaluable guide for business and ecosystem analysts, project managers, mobile commerce consultants, system and application developers, mobile developers and practitioners. It will also be of interest to researchers, software engineers, computer scientists, information technology specialists including students and graduates.Publisher's Versio

A tokenization-based communication architecture for HCE-Enabled NFC services

Following the announcement of Host Card Emulation (HCE) technology, card emulation mode based Near Field Communication (NFC) services have gained further appreciation as an enabler of the Cloud-based Secure Element (SE) concept. A comprehensive and complete architecture with a centralized and feasible business model for diverse HCE-based NFC services will be highly appreciated, particularly by Service Providers and users. To satisfy the need in this new emerging research area, a Tokenization-based communication architecture for HCE-based NFC services is presented in this paper. Our architecture proposes Two-Phased Tokenization to enable the identity management of both user and Service Provider. NFC Smartphone users can store, manage, and make use of their sensitive data on the Cloud for NFC services; Service Providers can also provide diverse card emulation NFC services easily through the proposed architecture. In this paper, we initially present the Two-Phased Tokenization model and then validate the proposed architecture by providing a case study on access control. We further evaluate the usability aspect in terms of an authentication scheme. We then discuss the ecosystem and business model comprised of the proposed architecture and emphasize the contributions to ecosystem actors. Finally, suggestions are provided for data protection in transit and at rest.This work is funded by KocSistem Information and Communication Services Inc. and Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology under SAN-TEZ Project no. 0726.STZ.2014Publisher's Versio

NFC internal: An indoor navigation system

PubMed ID: 25825976Indoor navigation systems have recently become a popular research field due to the lack of GPS signals indoors. Several indoors navigation systems have already been proposed in order to eliminate deficiencies; however each of them has several technical and usability limitations. In this study, we propose NFC Internal, a Near Field Communication (NFC)-based indoor navigation system, which enables users to navigate through a building or a complex by enabling a simple location update, simply by touching NFC tags those are spread around and orient users to the destination. In this paper, we initially present the system requirements, give the design details and study the viability of NFC Internal with a prototype application and a case study. Moreover, we evaluate the performance of the system and compare it with existing indoor navigation systems. It is seen that NFC Internal has considerable advantages and significant contributions to existing indoor navigation systems in terms of security and privacy, cost, performance, robustness, complexity, user preference and commercial availability.Publisher's Versio

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

Towards a better understanding of blockchain based government and public services

As a distributed ledger technology, Blockchain technology has started to show its potential and opportunities in various service domains over the world. Blockchain is considered not only in cryptocurrency and finance, but also in a wide spectrum of applications ranging from energy, healthcare, supply chain, real estate to public and government services. Government agencies around the world are exploring the benefits and constraints of incorporating Blockchain into the public services. The use of Blockchain in government and public sector services has the potential to provide great advantages such as data integrity, transparency, accountability, trust, corruption and fraud avoidance, high security and privacy, and efficiency of services with optimized cost. Governments from all over the world have started to realize valuable pilots of Blockchain based services in a wide array of government and public sector applications such as identity management, supply chain traceability, judicial decisions storage, land registration, healthcare data management, business licenses management, corporate registration, tax registration, and even e-voting. This study aims to provide an overview of the Blockchain in government and public services agencies and sheds light on the benefits of Blockchain technology with a classification of recent worldwide implementations depending on their purpose. Blockchain technology ensures valuable services and benefits particularly in domains of digital identity management, secure data storage, and asset tracking and auditing. This study will provide significant insights for researchers and practitioners that are investigating the effectiveness and efficiency of Blockchain in government

Yakın saha iletişimi teknolojisi ile yenilikçi servislerin geliştirilmesi

Text in English; Abstract: English and TurkishIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 63-69)xi, 70 leavesNowadays, there is a growing interest on rapid development and adoption of information technologies (IT) especially in contactless smart cards and mobile communication technologies. Near Field Communication (NFC) technology has become one of the promising technological developments in IT industry as well as one of the attractive research areas. NFC technology is a short range, high frequency, low bandwidth and wireless communication technology based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, which simplifies and secures the interaction with ubiquitously around people. NFC ecosystem is designed from synergy of several technologies including mobile devices, smart cards, secure elements (SEs), Over-the- Air (OTA) technology, and mobile applications; hence it enables a variety of services with a dynamic environment. The aim of this study is to present NFC Loyal and NFC Internal applications with a comprehensive analysis of the NFC technology in aspects of technical, operational as well as business. NFC Loyal aims to promote loyalty and payment services on multi-application smart cards through a secure model. In case of NFC Internal, a reliable and low cost indoor navigation system is designed by taking advantages of NFC technology. This study gives valuable insights on the NFC technology's development and adoption.Günümüzde bilgi teknolojilerinin, özellikle temassız akıllı kartlar ve mobil iletişim teknolojilerinin, hızlı gelişimine ve benimsenmesine yönelik artan bir ilgi söz konusudur. Yakın Saha İletişimi (NFC) teknolojiside IT sektöründe gelecek vaadeden teknolojik gelişmelerden ve aynı zamanda önemli araştırma alanlarından biri olmuştur. NFC teknolojisi kısa menzilli, yüksek frekanslı, düşük bant genişliğine sahip ve Radyo Frekanslı Tanımlama (RFID) teknolojisine dayanan kablosuz bir iletişim teknolojisidir. NFC teknolojisi insanların çevresiyle olan etkileşimini basitleştirmekle beraber güvence altına almayı hedefler. NFC ekosistemi birçok teknolojinin ve platformun bir arada çalışması üzerine tasarlanmıştır; bunlar başlıca mobil cihazlar, akıllı kartlar, güvenli elemanlar (SEs), Over-the-Air (OTA) teknolojisi ve mobil uygulamalardır. Bu yüzden NFC ekosistemi yüksek sayıda uygulamaya ve servise olanak sağlayan dinamik bir yapıdan oluşur. Bu çalışmanın amacı; iki yenilikçi NFC uygulamasının; NFC Loyal ve NFC Intemal'ın kapsamlı bir NFC teknolojisi analizi ile sunulmasıdır. NFC Loyal sadakat ve ödeme servislerinin uygulamalı akıllı kartlarında güvenli bir model ile geliştirilmesini hedeflemektedir. NFC Intemal ise, NFC teknolojisinin desteği ile düşük maliyetli ve güvenilir bir iç mekan navigasyon sistemi sağlamaktadır. Bu çalışma NFC teknolojisinin ilerleme ve gelişme süreci hakkında değerli bilgiler vermekte ve öngörülerde bulunmaktadır

NFC Loyal for enhancing loyalty services through Near Field Communication

Near Field Communication (NFC) as an emerging technology is currently leveraged by large standardization efforts and tries to find a suitable ecosystem. NFC enabled mobile devices with integrated smart cards introduce compelling opportunities and new business models. Development of new standards such as secure element (SE), smart card, secure channel, as well as JavaCard enables creating new ecosystems using a concurrent multi application platform which takes advantage of GlobalPlatform standards. We proposed NFC Loyal, which maintains storage, retrieval, and sharing among payment and loyalty applications through our proposed structure, called as Secure Common Domain Management (SCDM) system. SCDM as a centralized database management system on the SE stores valuable information provided by payment applications and shares them with loyalty applications through a secure channel. The direct outcome of using NFC Loyal is the increase in repeat purchases of customers; as well as being a beneficial business plan realized among the payment firms, loyalty firms, and the card owner, resulting in a win-win business model. In this study, we describe NFC Loyal model with its technical infrastructure, and present the NFC Loyal model's life cycle management on SE.Publisher's Versio

A survey on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology

Near Field Communication (NFC) as a promising short range wireless communication technology facilitates mobile phone usage of billions of people throughout the world that offers diverse services ranging from payment and loyalty applications to access keys for offices and houses. Eventually NFC technology integrates all such services into one single mobile phone. NFC technology has emerged lately, and consequently not much academic source is available yet. On the contrary, due to its promising business case options, there will be an increasing amount of work to be studied in the very close future. This paper presents the concept of NFC technology in a holistic approach with different perspectives, including communication essentials with standards, ecosystem and business issues, applications, and security issues. Open research areas and further recommended studies in terms of academic and business point of view are also explored and discussed at the end of each major subject's subsection. This comprehensive survey will be a valuable guide for researchers and academicians as well as for business world interested in NFC technology.Publisher's Versio

Design of a key exchange protocol between SIM card and service provider

Current capabilities of smart cards, Smartphones, and cellular network provoke companies to provide vast amount of services to the mobile users. Some of those services require end-to-end encryption between a Service Provider and a SIM card. Keyed SIM cards already contain the required structure for secure key generation and upload, whereas un-keyed SIM cards do not have the required capability for this. In this paper, we provide a key exchange protocol, which creates a symmetric key by the collaborative work of SIM card and the Service Provider server. After a successful protocol run, SIM card and Service Provider can perform end-to-end data encryption.Publisher's Versio

NFC loyal system on the cloud

FC (Near Field Communication) technology facilitates mobile phone usage of billions of people throughout the world that offers diverse services ranging from payment and loyalty applications to access keys for offices and houses. NFC technology is one promising technology that have adopted smart card as secure element (SE) to provide a secure area for the execution of multiple applications and storing sensitive data. In this paper, we developed a framework to integrate NFC loyal system onto the cloud. We adapted NFC mobiles together with their SE to the cloud (Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS) using Cloud Computing methodology.Azercell TelecomMIKRO BilgiState Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR)Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA)TUSIABWOS:00034583060000