When can we expect Field Services enabling Near Field Communication (NFC) for asset tagging?

Hello Barroso, Luis Maria (SI RSS RAM EPS DES),

Thanks for posting this great discussion on this forum!

In addition to @Sander's response, wanted to add few more helpful points!

Using NFC technology for asset tagging is a great way to modernize your asset tracking system, as you have the requirement mentioned in your post!

• You can use Azure IoT Central to create an IoT solution that uses NFC tags to track assets.

We can leverage Azure IoT Central application and add a device template for our NFC tags. Then, we can use the Azure IoT Plug and Play app to connect our smartphone to the IoT Central application and read and write data to the NFC tags.

We can also use Azure IoT Edge to preprocess the data locally before sending it to the cloud. Additionally, we can use Azure IoT Central's extensibility options, such as Continuous Data Export (CDE) and APIs, to export data to a line-of-business application for further analysis and insights.

Further references to read:

Tutorial: Deploy a smart inventory-management application template

This tutorial shows you how to deploy and use a smart inventory-management application template for IoT Central.

How to manage devices using device twin tags in Azure IoT Hub

This article demonstrates how to use tags to manage IoT devices using device twin tags

How to turn your smartphone into an IoT device

A how-to guide that shows you how to turn your smartphone into an IoT device by using the Azure IoT Plug and Play app.

Ref:

Tutorial: Deploy and walk through a connected logistics application template

Hello @Barroso, Luis Maria (SI RSS RAM EPS DES),

Smartphones make a perfect platform for interacting with the real world and sending telemetry to the cloud.

With all the sensors on it (including compass, GPS, tilt. touch, and the camera) you can build a lot of interesting solutions.

Scanning NFC labels or tags is just one of the simple but powerful use cases.

Check out this post about using .Net Maui to turn your phone into an IoT Device.

You basically write your mobile application and use one of the available device SDKs so your app is authenticating with its own unique key.

.Net Maui is a multi-platform development environment so you write apps for android, ios, windows, etc. But you can use your own environment too.

Then, add the logic to read the NFC messages, transform and enrich them if needed and send them to the IoT Hub.

There, incoming messages are routed to the services for storing the data (eg. Azure Data Explorer), representing the data (eg. PowerBI or Grafana), and turning them into actions (eg. Azure Logic Apps)

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