NFC Forum to increase transaction range from 2cm to three or four centimetres

NFC Forum executive director Mike McCamon has announced that the NFC transaction range will soon increase from 2cm to 3-4cm.

This increase will make the technology more user-friendly and faster. With the increased range, users won’t have to be as precise when trying to find the sweet spot on the terminal.

This extension of NFC’s transaction range is part of the NFC standards body’s newly completed three-to-five year Technology Roadmap and is currently in the research phase.

Also on the roadmap, McCamon reveals, is the introduction of multipurpose taps that will enable consumers to perform multiple functions, such as making a payment and receiving a receipt or presenting a loyalty card and making a payment, with just one tap.