With NFC on access control, it will be able to drive to a level of critical acceptance. We are about to embark on a new generation of access control technology in which mechanical keys -and even plastic smart cards- are either replaced -or at least augmented- by digital keys and portable digital identity credentials that can be securely provisioned onto NFC-enabled smartphones and other mobile devices.

HID Global shared insights on applications of NFC technology day-to-day businesses that are set to take off in India.

Excerpts: CIOL: Can you share with us your journey from RFID cards to NFC Ranjit Nambiar: HID Global comes with an identity security background, which means, we are into the business of basically securing identities.

Identities could be in any form. It could be in biometrics, access control, IT authentication, card control. If you look at the core of our technology, most of the solutions of what we have, Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is one of them. We extensively use RFID with respect to secure identity solution.

We have other businesses also, which are non RFID centric. It’s a secure identity business with RFID as a core technology is what we use. We have come out with a new series of physical access control readers which are NFC enabled. […]

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