Microsoft India team develop secure Peer-to-Peer acoustic NFC system
Friday, August 16, 2013 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers at Microsoft India has developed an alternative to standard NFC communications between hand-held devices—a software only system that makes use of the speaker and microphone already in use by phones and other devices. Called (Dhwani-"sound" in English) the new system can transmit small amounts of data without the need for any additional hardware.