Mobile Prosumer

New NFC-based Kiosksystem at the Point-of-Sale

AIRTAG introduced a new point of sale Kiosksystem. The system is able to read RFID tags and cards (13,56MHz). What’s interesting is, that they focus on the NFC frequency band, although the obvious target group is retail business (mainly using the UHF tags). Therefore the intended interaction seems to be mobile phone/card -> kiosk, rather than product -> kiosk.
For more information check their website: http://www.airtag.com/AIRKIOSK.html

Provided functions of the kiosk include:

• Express ordering kiosk
• Contactless payment
• Identification and animation on the POS
• Loyalty and couponing
• Interactive advertisement

If you are aware of any locations where this kiosk is already introduced, let us know.

Add comment July 15th, 2007

Upcoming: NFC Lecture at Chaos Communication Camp 2007

We will be doing a lecture and workshop at one of the most important hacker events this year: Chaos Communication Camp takes place every four years near Berlin. This year from 8 to 12 August.

The lecture is titled “Fun with NFC Mobile Phones” and is scheduled at Day 3, 10 August at 12.30 pm. If you are interested, please give us a visit. We are looking forward to seeing you there.

The lecture will give an extensive overview over NFC technology, available devices, current and future applications. We will also show what we have done with NFC so far. In the workshop we will give a short introduction into building your own NFC applications.

2 comments July 11th, 2007