DATA MANAGEMENT
INFO ON TAP
Android and iOS users will already be aware of how you can share information via Near Field Communications through apps like Bump. Steve Reynolds, President of the Mobile Data Association and MD of TBS Enterprise Mobility, explores how the tech could be used to benefit the FM industry.
Achieving greater efficiency is the perpetual aim of businesses in today’s challenging economic landscape. Efficiency in the workplace can be directly improved though the deployment of technology, but such is the pace of change that it is easy to miss when something with genuinely transformative potential emerges. Near Field Communications (NFC) is that something, and is being harnessed by a handful of businesses in the ePOD, security and rail industries to effectively assist in process
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compliance, asset management and time and attendance monitoring.
HOW NFC WORKS NFC uses radio frequency to enable
data to be sent between enabled mobile devices and tags within short range of each other. The tags can be attached to an asset and store information relating to it, which can then be read using an NFC-enabled smartphone, meaning there is no need for barcode readers.
Information can also be written into the tags, so that when an activity
is completed and the details are updated by the user through a smartphone app, the refreshed details can be transferred back to the tag by simply tapping it with the mobile device. By storing asset information on an NFC tag, there is no need to cross reference a central database to obtain the relevant records, thereby making processes more efficient.
The tags come in various shapes and sizes, from labels to discs. The discs are the size of a 10p coin and made from robust polycarbonate. Neither
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