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October 24, 2006
RFID Goes Mobile
RFID News has an article on how RFID is coming to wireless handheld devices and PDAs. WJ Communications has a new Gen2 RFID chipset geared towards both consumer and enterprise mobile devices. With some countries (such as the USA) having more mobile phones than landlines, and with companies like Nokia buying into RFID companies, the writing's on the wall. RFID is going to mobile, whether you like it or not.
Korea, France, and other countries are already testing the ability to pay with your phone for transit, parking (tickets), and/or movie tickets, using contactless technology embedded into (specific) mobile phones. Earlier this year, INSIDE Contactless offered an SD (Secure Digital) card-based contactless reader/writer module for Palm and Pocket PC devices. The module can read and write tags for six different protocols. TradeWind Technologies also has plug and play solutions for mobile devices.
It might seem to some people like a solution for a problem that doesn't exist, but a bit of reflection shows that RFID does actually make payment more convenient in some scenarios.
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