5. Markets and ecosystem
The market is made up of players from different business sectors, each with their own, sometimes divergent, strategies. The reasons for this technology's success are the same as those that are delaying the emergence of a common business model: multi-application and the diversity of players. Operating a secure service hosted by a third party adds to the complexity of an already complex business model. The NFC ecosystem is dense and abstruse if all the links in the chain are taken into account. However, we'll just mention the main players here: the user, the mobile operator, the service provider and the TSM.
5.1 Actors and their roles
The user is usually both the owner of the NFC equipment and the customer/user of several service providers (banks, public transport,...
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Bibliography
Standards
- Near Field Communication Interface and Protocol (NFCIP-1) - ECMA-340 - Juin 2013
- Near Field Communication Interface and Protocol – 2 (NFCIP-2) - ECMA-352 - Juin 2013
- Identification cards – Integrated circuit boards – Part 4: organization, security and orders for exchanges - ISO/CEI 7816-4:2013 - Avril 2013
- Identification cards – Test methods – Part 6: proximity maps - ISO/CEI 10373-6:2016 - Juillet 2016 ...
Regulations
Commission Recommendation of May 12, 2009 on the implementation of privacy and data protection principles in applications based on radio frequency identification.
Websites
NFC Forum
CITC-EuraRFID: Innovation center for contactless technologies
Global Platform
...Events
Exhibition: WIMA NFC, held in Monaco and San Francisco every year
Exhibition: Cartes, held every year in Paris
Exhibition: NFC World Congress, held every year in Nice
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Standards organization
ECMA: European association for standardizing information and communication systems
http://www.ecma-international.org/
ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute
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