Near Field Communications Handsets and Tags, NFC Pilots and Projects

GFI Informatique to deploy NFC in Nice

Monday, December 7, 2009

GFI Informatique has been selected to install several NFC projects throughout Nice, France, according to itrmanager.com.

The installments include: an interactive NFC guide at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, a campus-wide NFC project at the University of Nice and a city-wide NFC payment system.

Initially, GFI Informatique will equip ten works at the museum with NFC. Visitors will be able to scan the works with NFC-enabled phones to access multimedia material related to the work, such as videos, sounds and images.

If the pilot proves successful, the museum will expand the deployment to include its entire collection.

Read more (in French) here [end] 

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