Scope:
Trial
The two-and-half month trial enables 32 students and staff to open the outer doors of a dormitory at the university by tapping their smartphones on readers.
NFC Times Take:
While the trial uses an NFC bridge technology, HID, a large provider of corporate badges using contactless cards in North America, sees access-control applications on full NFC phones as an opportunity and so does BlackBerry phone maker Research in Motion. RIM and HID are working together on putting corporate badges on NFC-enabled BlackBerry Bold and Curve models by early 2012.
* Trusted Service Manager: Defined loosely to include companies or other organizations securely distributing, provisioning and managing applications, generally over the air, on secure elements in NFC mobile phones; or licensing their platforms for this purpose.
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Last update: Sept.. 2011
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