Mueller John Paul - NFC for dummies

NFC For Dummies

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1. Table of Contents

Ask most people what NFC stands for and they will probably answer the National Football Conference. But the NFC in this book is far more important than football. It stands for Near Field Communication, a technology that has the potential to significantly change how you interact with the people and things around you. The exciting news about NFC is that we havent even scratched the surface yet of how this technology is going to change our lives. Thats why you need NFC For Dummies. This book is your introduction to the larger world of NFC, and it helps you see why this technology is so amazing.

NFC For Dummies begins by introducing you to NFC. You discover that NFC is already used all over the place, and you might not have even realized it.

Discovering how this technology has been hiding in plain sight is a good starting point. The second part of the book tells you how NFC actually works and why it needs to work in this specific way. You may initially find some of this material a little technical, but if you want to use NFC to the fullest extent possible, you need to know what makes it special.

After you know how NFC works, its time to see it in action. The next part of the book discusses many of the ways in which you can use NFC to perform useful tasks. Each chapter introduces another area in which NFC is in use today. Amazing as these uses are, theyre really just the tip of the iceberg, and the links in these chapters will lead you to still more resources.

Every technology comes with a few implementation issues. Some set of technical circumstances inevitably causes problems. Fortunately, this book tells you about those issues and tells you how to fix them. You end up looking really smart because while your buddies are sitting there not doing much, youve already fixed the problem and are doing something useful with NFC.

A single book cant even begin to tell you about everything NFC has to offer. In fact, you could probably read several books and still not begin to exhaust this topic. Thats why the Parts of Ten is there. It gives you access to resources that will keep you reading for quite some time to come. When you finish it all, youll become an NFC guru, and everyone around you will be looking to you as the NFC expert.

To make absorbing the concepts even easier, this book uses the following conventions:

• When you see terms in the text in italics, the surrounding text provides a definition for that term.
• Web addresses appear in monofont . If youre reading a digital version of this book on a device connected to the Internet, note that you can click the web address to visit that website, like this: http://www.dummies.com .

You might find it difficult to believe that Ive assumed anything about you after all, we havent even met yet! Although most assumptions are indeed foolish, I made these assumptions to provide a starting point for the book.

Of course, you do need to have some desire to work with NFC to solve some sort of problem or address a need. In many cases, the problem or need is business or task specific, but you might be amazed at the ways in which you can use NFC to address personal needs as well. The point is that you need to have some anticipated purpose for using NFC to get the most out of this book.

You should also understand some basics of technology. For example, if you arent on speaking terms with your smartphone, this book might not be a good fit for you. You do need some level of technical savvy to make good use of the material, even though the bar isnt set very high.

This book also assumes that you can access items on the Internet. Sprinkled throughout are numerous references to online material that will enhance your learning experience. However, these added sources are useful only if you actually find and use them.

As you read this book, you see icons in the margins that indicate material of interest (or not, as the case may be). This section briefly describes each icon in this book.