Nokia spurs surge in RFID technology

The adoption of RFID by mobile phone and handheld device manufacturers took a major step forward at CeBIT last week when Nokia announced plans to incorporate RFID technology into its devices.

The widespread adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) by mobile phone and handheld device manufacturers took a major step forward at CeBIT last week when Nokia announced plans to incorporate RFID technology into its devices over the next two years.

This announcement at the world's largest IT trade show follows similar statements by other blue-chip companies and underlines the huge potential of near-field RFID in consumer applications.

RFID design services specialist Innovision Research and Technology has worked with blue-chip customers in this area for a number of years and is a market leader in the development of low-cost near-field 13.56MHz RFID technologies.

"Interest in high-volume, near-field RFID consumer applications is growing rapidly", said Marc Borrett, Managing Director of Innovision R and T.

"Over the past two years we have been working with our customers and licensees to develop intellectual property and fully integrated RFID silicon cores specifically targeting the consumer devices sector.

Our new products include the world's smallest RFID reader module and Jewel, Innovision R and T's ultra-low-cost ISO14443A compatible RFID tag for mass transit ticketing applications.

We have a number of market-ready applications and several more are in the later stages of development.

The integration of RFID technology by companies such as Nokia will further drive mass adoption".

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