Near Field Communication Tag Management System: TagMan case study
Chugunov, Alexei (2013)
Chugunov, Alexei
Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013053011983
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013053011983
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Near Field Communication is relatively emerging technology which will change many aspects of everyday life. There are a lot of use cases in payment and ticketing, infotain-ment services and field force solutions where NFC could be utilized. NFC technology grown from RFID and includes many RFID standards, including standards for NFC tags. In the near future we will see a lot of NFC tags at streets, homes and offices, which will require tag management system to handle them. The aim of this thesis was to research different tag management models and approaches and to develop NFC tag management system in order to maintain and control NFC tag ecosystem.
In this work tag management system was analyzed from many prospective, including technical, business and security aspects. Possibility of integration tag management sys-tem into asset management, field force solutions and location based services was dis-cussed. One tag many service concept was introduced, allowing to use same tag for dif-ferent users and services. Different types of identifiers such as barcode, EPC code, QR code, which could be used in tag management system along with NFC tags, was com-pared to reveal its benefits and drawbacks.
During this thesis work prototype of NFC tag management system named TagMan was developed for ToP Tunniste, company located at Tampere, which many years develop NFC and RFID solutions. TagMan consists of web pages for managing tags, tag groups, locations and schedules. To analyze usage of NFC tags the statistic of tag taps is availa-ble. TagMan also includes mobile application for Android to encode TagMan NFC tags and insert them into database. Further development of system and its full deployment is next step.
In this work tag management system was analyzed from many prospective, including technical, business and security aspects. Possibility of integration tag management sys-tem into asset management, field force solutions and location based services was dis-cussed. One tag many service concept was introduced, allowing to use same tag for dif-ferent users and services. Different types of identifiers such as barcode, EPC code, QR code, which could be used in tag management system along with NFC tags, was com-pared to reveal its benefits and drawbacks.
During this thesis work prototype of NFC tag management system named TagMan was developed for ToP Tunniste, company located at Tampere, which many years develop NFC and RFID solutions. TagMan consists of web pages for managing tags, tag groups, locations and schedules. To analyze usage of NFC tags the statistic of tag taps is availa-ble. TagMan also includes mobile application for Android to encode TagMan NFC tags and insert them into database. Further development of system and its full deployment is next step.