The NFC forum released its new specifications to broaden the range of possible implementations in the market, and to increase the interoperability with legacy devices, says Böhler, who works for STMicroelectronics as a software system architect for telecommunication and NFC chips. For example, the Type 5 Tag Operation Specification defines the mechanisms to read NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF) messages on ISO 15693 tags.
For legacy ISO tag implementations, solution providers could expand the way in which their solutions collect and manage data. Instead of simply managing the ISO 15693 data only with their own readers, they can now add some ISO 15693 reader functionality to NFC-enabled smartphones.