The Death of RFID
: Part 1

Two important anticipated updates coming in iOS 11
 may spell the end for RFID technologies used for print.

Two important anticipated updates coming in iOS 11
 may spell the end for RFID technologies used for print.

History
The roots of RFID technologies can be traced back to 1945 with the core commercial technology being developed in the 1970’s.

RFID For Print
For decades, print environments have leveraged employee issued RFID cards and 3rd party card readers as the mechanism to authenticate users to a printer/print station.  When supporting print, this also necessitated expensive embedded firmware that could only run on an expensive MFP. This can easily add an additional $1,000+ over the cost of a printer just to support pull printing for a single MFP or printer.

iOS 11
One very important change coming to iOS 11 is that Apple is allowing developers access to Core NFC, the framework that will allow apps to read Near Field Communication tags that are compatible with the NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF).  Simply put, developers are going to have access to the same NFC technologies used in ApplePay.


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