The Near Field Communication (NFC) Forum says it has created a universal, interoperable, digital product passport framework.
The framework will enable NFC Forum tags already in use for other applications to also store sustainability data.
The NFC Forum candidate specification also allows for static and dynamic data to be hosted and accessed offline using non-volatile memory stored on the product itself.
A single NFC tag embedded in a product will be able to store and transmit both standard and extended DPP data using common NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF) records.
Chair of the NFC Forum devices and applications working group, Klaus Roehrle, said: “With multiple data models for sustainability under discussion and development by various organisations globally, NFC Forum has created a universal, interoperable, framework that can work seamlessly with any format and field requirements.
“With NFC-enabled smartphones already in the hands of most consumers and able to read the NFC-based data, we can foresee that full-scale deployment of product sustainability data could be achieved in many products with simply a software update.”
Green manufacturing
The development has been led by forum board members including those from Apple, Google, Huawei, Identiv, Infineon, NXP, Sony, and ST Microelectronics, and the NFC Forum and its community. This is in a bid to help product and component manufacturers meet impending global regulatory requirements for green manufacturing.
NFC Forum executive director Mike McCamon said: “As work in this area gains momentum, we call on the NFC and sustainability communities to participate and provide feedback on the development of this draft standard to help ensure reliability, interoperability, and compatibility across NFC chips, tags and devices to store and provide access to sustainability data across products and services.”
To download the draft standard visit: https://nfc-forum.org/build/specifications
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