Unlike NFC, RFID only supports one-way communication — from the tag to the reader — and can’t store nearly as much information. Then there’s the new kid on the block: Ultra Wideband (UWB).

NFC tags and readers communicate wirelessly with each other over very short distances. Tags store a small amount of data on them that is sent to the reader in the form of electromagnetic pulses.

Raspberry Pi NFC reader “Once the tags receive the information that they are in the same frequency as the reader, they will use it and communicate it as storable data in a programmed memory.

See, you can flip the Flipper Zero to NFC (Near Field Communication) mode and tell it to read something, at which point you hold an NFC token up to the device and it can read and report what's on it.

NFC Forum, the leading standards body for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, launched a Proof-of-Concept Mobile Reader application for Android ...

In reader/writer mode, NFC-enabled devices communicate and exchange data based on instructions from the reader/writer. Peer-to-Peer Mode . This P2P mode enables two NFC-enabled devices to exchange ...

Now available in the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch, NFC is poised to play an important role in the way we use our phones, especially when it comes to mobile payments. Here's how it works.

The field generator by the NFC reader produces the tiny amount of power required to trigger a signal. Starting with AirTag support in the iPhone 6s in 2015, all iPhone models have had some kind of ...