智能手机整合近场通信(NFC)的趋势，正逐渐将NFC的应用从移动支付扩展到更广阔的领域。在今年的 Cartes 智能卡技术展会中，我们看到包括RFID和NFC等技术，都已广泛被应用在护照、身份证中，甚至还包含了游戏、消费电子、零售、保健和广告等不同的应用领域。
包括恩智浦半导体(NXP Semiconductors)、意法半导体(STMicroelectronics)、英飞凌科技(Infineon Technologies)和飞思卡尔半导体(Freescale Semiconductor)，都是主要的RFID和NFC技术供货商。
接下来，我们将看到 Cartes 2012 展会中所展示的最新NFC应用。首先是嵌入NFC芯片的书籍书版商，这也是第一本内嵌多颗NFC芯片的书藉。
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用智能手机当作读取器，内嵌在书中的NFC芯片能让智能手机连接网络，让使用者在读到影像相关内容时一并下载歌曲。
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NFC和影像游戏
NFC将应用拓展到游戏领域。Activision公司的“kylanders”游戏便采用了NFC读取/写入器，以及具备NFC卷标的游戏人物。
该游戏内容是一个名叫Kaos的邪恶霸主入侵Skyland，将当地人驱逐到地球去。但玩家可以将难民们带回家，并透过购买带NFC卷标的游戏人物，将他们 放置在NFC读取器上方，来帮助他们击败Kaos。该NFC读取器是属于一个Portal装置的一部份，而这个Portal实际上是一个具备USB接口的NFC读取器/写入器。
在Skylander游戏中使用NFC功能。
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上图中，NFC卷标包含了每个角色的长处和属性，而透过Portal来读取NFC卷标，则可将这些人物特色传回给游戏。
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智能贴纸
移动支付和照片共享应用并不是NFC智能手机的唯一功能。 NFC 也可以透过触发电子芯片让手机在一定范围内与其它接收装置互动。这就是三星 TecTiles 贴纸的运作方式。
三星最近推出了可用在其Galaxy S3和Galaxy Note 2上的NFC贴纸。
三星(Samsung)的NFC智能贴纸名为 TecTiles 。
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该贴纸可用于某些手机功能。例如，对着一个卷标刷一下手机，使用者便可切换到静音模式，并激活特定的应用程序、拨打电话并自动发送短信。
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手机钱包
移动支付仍然是NFC在智能手机应用中的最重要一项功能。在Cartes 2012上，Gemalto展示了融合银行和NFC支付的整合应用。
只要开启，便可立即显示银行帐户和信用卡活动信息。无论是塑料金融卡或NFC卡、帐户查询、信用状况等都可立即显示，让帐户持有人进行付款、转账或寻找最近的ATM。
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在智能手机屏幕上显示银行和NFC付款应用程序信息。
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可编程家电
松下今年秋天推出一个新的“智能”家电，包括洗衣机/烘干机、空调、电饭锅以及其它基于云端运算的智能应用程序。消费者可透过其配备NFC功能的 Android 手机对设备进行编程。
松下(Panasonic)的智能洗衣机/烘干机可透过具有NFC功能的智能手机进行编程。
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蓝牙同步
要让两个蓝牙设备“配对”，一直是蓝牙用户所遇到的头号障碍。而NFC有助于解决这个问题。Parrot在Zik耳机中整合了NFC功能，可让使用者进行配对、连接和播放NFC兼容设备的音乐。
Parrot的Zik耳机配备了一颗 NFC 芯片。
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安全智能电表
Inside Secure 和飞思卡尔半导体(Freescale)展示了一款具备NFC连接功能的安全电表。该产品展示了如何让消费者使用NFC功能的智能手机或其它NFC设备读取电表，然后安全地将信息传送到公共事业端以支付账款。
飞思卡尔和Inside Secure表示，可透过在电表和公共设施之间提供安全特性来防止诈欺行为。
确保智能电表的安全。
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这款智能电表参考板采用VaultIC 460安全模块、 MicroRead 3.4 NFC 控制器和Open NFC 协议堆栈，以提供和银行同等级的供智能卡安全功能。该系统是由飞思卡尔内建 ARM Cortex-M4 的32位MCU Kinetis MK30X256控制。
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NFC用于停车定时器
在部份特定城市中，已经有停车定时器开始采用 PayByPhone NFC贴纸。
PayByPhone NFC贴纸具有一个被动电子芯片，不需要电池和储存信息，包括停车格号码等讯息，均可透过任何具备NFC功能的手机无线读取。
驾驶们可对着NFC贴纸摇动或轻拍他们的NFC手机，便可自动激活停车位的应用程序。移动支付系统会识别使用者，并识别个别停车位以及驾驶停车时间，以完成交易。
配有NFC贴纸的停车定时器。
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在停车期限届满前系统便会发送短信提示，如果有需要，驾驶还能用电话延长停车时间。收据会自动发送到使用者的电子邮件。之后可用信用卡或其它与手机号码相关的付款机制来进行支付。
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可编程令牌
索尼(Sony)今年稍早推出了智能卷标(SmartTags)，它本质上是可编程的权仗(token)，能让搭载NFC功能的Android手机响应一系 列命令来执行重复的任务。使用者只需在进入一间房屋时刷一下自己的手机，便能激活无线网络连接、关闭GPS或激活一个应用程序。一旦手机连接车上的智能标签权仗后，便能激活GPS导航和蓝牙。
索尼的NFC智能卷标(SmartTags)。
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手机钱包平台
ISIS手机钱包应用程序于10月下旨在美国的Google Play商店上架，但截至目前该程序仅能应用在特定市场。包括美国奥斯汀和犹他州盐湖城的T-Mobile、Verizon Wireless 和AT&T客户们，现在都可获得免费的ISIS NFC SIM卡，下载Isis手机钱包应用程序并开始消费。
Isis能让使用者透过智能手机用NFC进行交易。消费者和商家可以汇款、付款或计算折扣。
ISIS的手机钱包。
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观察家认为，移动支付仍会是NFC在手机应用中的一项重要功能。而Isis则将会是能与Google电子钱包和Square 的 PayPal Here 相抗衡的移动支付选项。
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参考英文原文：Mobile apps get smarter using NFC，by Junko Yoshida, Anne-Francoise Pele
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Mobile apps get smarter using NFC
Junko Yoshida, Anne-Francoise Pele
The adoption of near-field communications in smartphones is expanding the range of NFC applications far beyond mobile payments. Here are just 10 examples.
PARIS – Cartes, the annual conference on smart card technology, has morphed into a showcase for technologies and products that combine smart security, electronic payments and identification with mobility.
This year's conference expanded to include RFID and near-field communications (NFC) technologies broadly adopted in passports, national IDs and mass transit along with gaming, consumer electronics, retail, health care and advertising.
The adoption of NFC in smartphones is also expanding technology applications far beyond mobile payments. These range from peer-to-peer applications to personalization of profile settings and new reader/writer apps.
Chip manufacturers pitching their RFID and NFC technologies along with secure MCUs include: NXP Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics, Infineon Technologies and Freescale Semiconductor.
In the following pages, we offer snapshots of the latest NFC apps already on the market and new ones introduced at Cartes 2012:
Book publishing with embedded NFC chips: The first book embedded with multiple NFC chips. Using a smartphone as a reader, NFC chips inside the book allow the reader to connect to the Internet, download a song and watch video clips.
NFC and video gaming
NFC-enabled action figures used in the Skylander game
NFC is adding a new dimension to video games. Activision was the first to benefit from a growing craze of “Skylanders” video games, which use an NFC reader/writer and game characters holding NFC tags.
An evil overlord named Kaos is invading the Skyland, turning the natives into toys and banishing them to Earth. But game players can bring the refugees home and help them defeat Kaos -- by purchasing the NFC tag-based characters and placing them on top of an NFC reader in a portal. The portal is essentially a USB-based NFC reader/writer.
An NFC tag in the action figure contains the strengths and attributes of each character, while the portal that reads the NFC tag can bring those characters back into the video game.
Smart stickers
Samsung's NFC-enabled smart stickers called TecTiles
Mobile payments and photo sharing aren’t the only applications of NFC-enabled smartphones. NFC can also trigger an action by placing an electronic chip within a range of a receiver that interacts with the chip. That’s how Samsung’s TecTiles stickers work.
Samsung recently rolled out NFC stickers that work with its Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2.
The stickers can be used for certain phone functions. By swiping a phone over a tag, the user switch it to silent mode, launch certain app or make phone calls and send text messages automatically.
Mobile wallet
Combined banking and NFC payment apps displayed on a smartphone screen.
Mobile payments continue to be an important element of NFC-enabled smartphones, and their apps are advancing. At Cartes 2012, Gemalto showed a converged application for banking and NFC payments.
Launching the wallet shows the user immediately a snapshot of bank account and card activity. For either plastic bank card or NFC card, checking, savings and credit accounts appear on the display, allowing the account holder to make a payment, transfer money, set up an alert or locate the nearest ATM.
Programming appliances
Panasonic' smart washer/dryer can be programmed by an NFC-enabled smartphone
Panasonic introduced this fall a new line up of ‘smart’ appliances, including a washer/drier, air conditioner, rice cookers and others that use its cloud-based Smart app. Consumers can program appliances via their Android mobile phones equipped with NFC capabilities.
Bluetooth syncing
Parrot's Zik headphones come with a NFC chip.
"Pairing" of two Bluetooth devices has always been the first stumbling block encountered by Bluetooth users. NFC can help ease the proces. Parrot integrated NFC into the Zik headphones to allow users to pair, connect, and play music from an NFC-compatible device with nothing more than a tap of the headphones.
Secure smart meter
Secure smart meter guts.
Inside Secure and Freescale Semiconductor demonstrated a secure electricity meter at Cartes 2012 that comes with NFC connectivity. The demo showed how consumers can use an NFC-enabled smartphone or other NFC device to read an electric meter, then securely transmit usage information to a utility for payment.
Freescale and Inside Secure claim the postpaid meter can help prevent fraud by providing security between the meter and a utility.
The board in the smart meter uses the VaultIC 460 security module and the MicroRead 3.4 NFC controller and Open NFC protocol stack from Inside Secure to provide smart card security features like those used in banking. The system is controlled by Freescale’s Kinetis MK30X256 32-bit MCU built on an ARM Cortex-M4 core.
NFC in parking meters
Parking meters equipped with NFC stickers.
PayByPhone is installing NFC stickers on every parking meter in selected cities. The PayByPhone NFC sticker has a passive electronic chip that does not require a battery and stores information such as the parking space number that can be read wirelessly by any NFC-enabled phone.
Drivers wave or tap their NFC-enabled phones over the NFC sticker on the meter to automatically launch the parking application. The mobile payment system recognizes the user, identifies the individual parking location and the driver enters the desired parking time to complete the transaction.
The system then sends a text message reminder before the parking period expires and, if needed, allows additional time to be purchased by phone. A receipt is automatically sent to the user’s e-mail account. Payment is processed against a credit or debit card associated with the mobile phone number.
Programmable tokens
Sony's NFC-enabled SmartTags.
Sony's SmartTags launched earlier this year are essentially programmable tokens that allow NFC-equipped Android phone to respond to a series of commands to perform repetitive tasks. User merely swipe their phone when entering the house to turn on Wi-Fi, turn off GPS or launch an app. Once the phone connects with SmartTag token in the car, it initiates GPS, navigation and Bluetooth.
Mobile wallet platforms
The Isis Mobile Wallet.
The Isis Mobile Wallet app hit the Google Play store late October in the U.S., but it’s only available so far in select markets. T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and AT&T customers in Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah, can now pick up a free Isis NFC SIM card, download the Isis Mobile Wallet app and start spending.
Isis allows customers to make transactions with a simple tap of their smartphone. Using NFC technology, consumers and merchants can transfer money, make payments or manage discounts and loyalty perks.
Observers view mobile payments as an essential app of the NFC-enabled phones. Isis is expected to compete against rivals like Google Wallet and PayPal Here as well as mobile payment options from companies like Square.
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