NFC Forum Announces Availability of Specifications Enabling More Flexibility

The NFC Forum announced availability of one candidate specification and three adopted technical specs that will enable communication with a broader range of devices and tags, it said in a Monday announcement. NFC Controller Interface (NCI) spec version 2.0, published as a candidate spec in June 2015, is now adopted after comments from stakeholders. Additions enable more flexibility for near-field communications devices with multiple secure elements, the option for NFC controllers to emulate NFV Forum tags autonomously, and a high-level radio-frequency interface allowing IoT devices to support communication with NFC Forum tags, it said. NFC Activity Technical Specification Version 2.0 defines the building blocks (activities) to set up the RF protocol for different roles inside an NFC device. NFC Digital Protocol Technical Specification Version 2.0 defines the digital part of the RF protocol used by NFC devices.