NFC-based ICT Standard
South Korea’s near field communications (NFC)-based internet communications technology (ICT) is expected to become the international standards.
The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of Korea announced on August 18 that the NFC-based ICT technology, which is currently under development by IETF working group, passed the low-power ICT interoperability test conducted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in Berlin, Germany.
The ETRI proposed its own NFC-ICT technology to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an international body that defines standard Internet operating protocols, and made the technology as the standard recommendation in March last year. Currently, Dr. Choi Young-hwan of the ETRI and Hong Yong-geun, head of intelligence IoE network research, are the editors of the IETF working group. Accordingly, the technology will become the international standard by the end of this year.
The new technology developed by the ETRI is the NFC-based internet adaption layer protocol which allows to use the NFC-based non-contact short-range wireless communication technologies, which have been used so far in access control, information collection, payment and transportation sectors, in general internet communications.
NFC requires comparatively low power and is based on the close-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a separation of 10 cm or less. So, it has a low risk of radio monitoring. With such features, the technology can be widely used in the Internet of Things (IoT). However, it was difficult to make use of it due to the fact that there has been no internet adaption layer protocol technologies until now.
The ETRI expects to use the technology can be used in a wide range of online to offline (O2O) payments when applying to the IoT.