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Location and Positioning using Bluetooth 5
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For a long time people have been interested in the possibility of using Bluetooth to determine the location or position of an object relative to another, fo... -
Low Power Card Detect - Friend or foe?
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Historically if you were designing a contactless card reader then to detect cards you needed to poll periodically by turning the RF field on and sending out polling requests (REQA for IS... -
COLLABORATION LEADS TO SUCCESS FOR DYNAMIC NEW GAME
Nottingham based Near Field Solutions Ltd are no strangers to facing obstacles in developing new products and services. The team are frequently challenged to design innovative solutions and are known ...
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Bluetooth protocol testing
Most Bluetooth controllers have mature software stacks integrated which takes care of all the Bluetooth communications meaning that the application you are developing is relatively isolated from the d...
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DropMix - pushing the boundries of Bluetooth Smart
DropMix is a dynamic, fast-paced music-mixing game that allows players to blend popular songs from award-winning artists to create amazing mixes. The DropMix Music Gaming System includes the DropMix g...
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NFS help create first plastic RFiD tag and reader with screen printed antennas
First Demonstration of Plastic 12-bit RFID Tag and Reader System with Screen-Printed Antenna
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Using reader technology developed by NFS Quad Industries, Agfa, imec and TNO have demonstrated a plastic 1... -
Big is beautiful
Mostly customers ask us to create NFC antennas that are as small as possible.............
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Well this makes a pleasant change - like the title says 'big is beautiful'
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NFC-How to protect consumers
I noticed recently that Clear Channel, the worldwide out of home advertising company, have announced that they are rolling out NFC and QRCode technologies to their global advertising panels.
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Overview of Bluetooth Smart
In this blog we want to give a brief overview of what Bluetooth Smart is and what it can be used for. Equally we will discuss the type of use cases that it is NOT suitable for.
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Getting the right antenna
Recently as part of a project we did some testing of a Bluetooth antenna we had designed for a solution, the results were quite interesting and so we thought we would share them.
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Printed electronics - the future of interactive packaging
A considerable amount has been said about the potential of Printed Electronics over the past few years; finally the technology is reaching a point where it can actually start being used in real projec...
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Near Field Solutions and HeartSafe: Working together to help save lives
Technology created by Near Field Solutions is boosting the performance of life-saving equipment across the country, and helping to save hundreds of thousands of pounds a year for the UK’s Ambulance ...
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Internet of Things – Making it secure
The Internet of Things (IoT) will create a world in which physical objects or “things” that are part of our everyday lives communicate securely with each other. This connected world will enable ne...
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Bluetooth Smart Mesh Network – The next step for the Internet of Things.
A couple of years ago I sat at a conference listening to Robin Heydon of CSR explaining in his typical energetic ways how Bluetooth Smart differs from Bluetooth Classic. If you listened carefully enou...
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NFS joins forces with BCD Micro to promote Bluetooth Smart sensors for IoT applications
NFS and BCD Micro have collaborated to develop a new Bluetooth Smart Sensor Application Kit.
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The kit is designed to make it simple for engineers to quickly and easily try out ideas for Bluetooth Smar...