How to make a better NFC antenna with New rFid Concept

How to make a better NFC antenna with New rFid Concept

You may have never heard of the New rFid Concept NFC antenna system, but you will soon want it in your NFC smartphone. If you have an NFC smartphone you will no doubt have become frustrated at one point or another with the ability to read tags easily. This is especially true if you are attempting to read NFC tags through glass or on certain materials like metals. At best most NFC antennas will only pick up a signal at around a distance of 4cm and sometimes substantially less. There has to be a better way, right? Well, there is and French firm New rFid Concept have it ready to roll with an advanced NFC antenna that substantially increases the performance of NFC smartphones.

Don’t just take our word for it though, feel free to check out the video where Amanda Sanchez demonstrates the difference between two Nexus S NFC smartphones. One has the firm’s advanced antenna and one has the standard antenna and the difference is like night and day. What we didn’t show on the video is that we tested the NFC antenna out with tags we had with us and on every single occasion the New rFid Concept enabled phone performed dramatically better. Being the skeptics that we are, we even compared the firm’s Nexus S against our own and again the same result was evident.

Better read range and certified security makes New rFid Concept a no brainer for OEMs looking for better NFC antennas

New rFid Concept’s NFC antenna also passes the security litmus test and is in full compliance with EMVCO in any reader mode for payments. Amanda Sanchez shared with us that no NFC phones in the market today can boast that compliance, so the solution not only gives better performance, but also brings a certified level of security not currently found else where.

“Using the Low Power technology (3.3v) in this project was a real advantage for us in the finalization of a comprehensive, performance and reliable solution. We are very proud to guarantee the EMVCO PayPass 2.0 and ISO14443 specifications 9 cm communication with no amplifier nor gimmick and despite the Low Power of the Chip Reader”, said Yves Eray, CEO of New rFid Concept, on their website.

It isn’t just us who were impressed with the New rFid Concept  NFC antenna. In fact, we were tipped off to check out the firm’s NFC antennas by a member of the NXP team. We have now seen NFC microSD solutions that have dramatically improved read range. We have also seen better NFC tags emanating from an NXP design and being manufactured and sold by UPM RFID and other NFC tag manufactures.

New rFid Concept NFC antenna system conclusion

However, the New rFid Concept NFC antenna looks set to get rid of a lot of the frustration of bad tag reads or no reads at all. Better NFC antennas, better microSD reading ability and better smaller tags with better read ranges are setting NFC up to have better commercial viability. This is because the user experience will ultimately decide how NFC is adopted. By the looks of things some of the niggling frustrations of that user experience are becoming a matter of history. We look forward to hearing about NFC smartphones that feature NFC antenna systems from New rFid Concept.