NFC Technologies and Systems, a 98-page report that explains in detail the technology behind NFC tag reading and writing, the role and functionality of trusted service managers (TSMs), how secure elements work and how they keep sensitive data secure is now available as a free download in the NFC World+ Knowledge Centre.

This 2012 report by the editor of NFC World+ also provides an in-depth explanation of how carriers can deploy NFC services to their customers’ SIM cards over-the-air (OTA) and how this process differs to the embedded secure elements used by handset manufacturers like Apple.