Although near field communication(NFC) has been said to be the next big thing for many years, its adoption is only happening in small and incremental steps. The main problem is that people would have to purchase an NFC-enabled phone, usually found in newer and more expensive smartphones. Acting as an alternative solution to NFC, innovative purely acoustic-based software has attracted the eyeballs of tech savvies recently.
Although near field communication(NFC) has been said to be the next big thing for many years, its adoption is only happening in small and incremental steps. The main problem is that people would have to purchase an NFC-enabled phone, usually found in newer and more expensive smartphones. Acting as an alternative solution to NFC, innovative purely acoustic-based software has attracted the eyeballs of tech savvies recently.
MICROSOFT'S SOLUTION
The Microsoft India team announced in August their latest creation – Dhwani (“sound”in English), a novel, acoustic-based NFC system that uses the microphone and speakers on any smartphones to enable bidirectional communication between devices. Similar to NFC, D...