Abstract
Among the different hi-tech content domains, the telecommunications industry is one of the most relevant, in particular for the Italian economy. Moreover, Near Field Communication (NFC) represents an example of innovative production and a technological introduction in the telecommunications context. It has a threefold function: card emulator, peer-to-peer communication and digital content access, and it could be pervasively integrated in many different domains, especially in the mobile payment one. The increasing attention on NFC technology from the academic community has improved an analysis on the changes and the development perspective about mobile payments. It has considered the work done by the GSMA (Global System for Mobile Communications Association) and the NFC Forum in recent years. This study starts from an analysis of the scientific contributions to Near Field Communication and how the main researches on this topic were conceived. Our focus is on the diffusion rates, the adoption rates and the technology life cycle. After that, we analyze the technical-economical elements of NFC. Finally, this work presents the state of art of the improvements to this technology with a deeper focus on NFC technologies applied to the tourism industry. In this way, we have done a case analysis that shows some of the NFC existent applications linked to each stage of the tourism value chain.
Highlights
The telecommunication field is one of the most innovative sectors, of which Near FieldCommunication (NFC) is one of the main examples.The Near Field Communication (NFC) standard was issued in 2003 [1]
Starting from the evidence highlighted in the literature, in this part of our research work we focused the scientific exploration on NFC applications related to the macro areas of the tourism value chain (Figure 6)
As we could see in the Hype Cycle curve, NFC technology is in the disillusionment stage
Summary
The telecommunication field is one of the most innovative sectors, of which Near Field. It is a data transmission technology that uses short-range radio waves at the specific frequency of 13.56 MHz, by which it is possible to read tags that are a kind of passive circuit [2]. This technology, among the different sectors in which it is applied, is integrated in smartphones. It originates from the evolution of studies and researches in the RFID field, or Radio Frequency Identification [3]. We show NFC applications in the tourism industry
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