Legic and Nexperts in NFC touch shopping

Tuesday, 05 January, 2010 (Age: 245 days)

Innovation and tradition for mobile shoppers at farmer’s grocery stores with a project “touch’n pay“ demonstrating the usage of near field communications (NFC) technology for self service shopping

By the joint project touch’n pay, operated by Nexperts, e24 and other industrial partners plus the University of Applied Science from Northwest Switzerland, from December 2009 customers can shop for goods and services by a simple touch with their NFC enabled mobile phone during a several month field trial.

80 customers from the Zurich region will be equipped with an NFC enabled mobile phone that eases the shopping process in farmer shops significantly. As these self marketing farmers do not have a usual Point of Sale infrastructure and are operated without assisting personal in the shop, the NFC mobile phone becomes the electronic shopping basket, cash point and access key. The shopper simply touches the price tag, on which an NFC tags stores the item and price information. A shopping basket application on the mobile phone sums up all articles and by a touch to the “checkout” tag the electronic payment process will be initiated.

Furthermore the NFC enabled customers can access to the farmer’s shop around the clock by opening the door-lock cylinder with a touch by their mobile phone.

The project has been initiated by NEXPERTS GmbH from Hagenberg, Austria together with e24 AG from Zurich, Switzerland. It is supported by SIX Multi Solutions AG, the provider of the secure payment service Mobile Buy, which links mobile-phone purchases to Visa and MasterCard credit cards, Winter AG and Alliera AG. LEGIC provided the contactless smart card technology and their partner SEA the NFC enabled door lock cylinders.

Category: Smart Cards, Data Collection, RFID