October 23, 2013, Seoul – STMicroelectronics (hereinafter ST) will participate in the 'RFID/IoT World Congress 2013' held at COEX from Wednesday, October 23 to Friday, October 25, and showcase its advanced Near Field Communication (NFC) solutions.

ST plans to focus on introducing two types of dynamic NFC/RFID tags, the M24LR series, and NFC transceiver controller ICs, the CR95HF and RX95HF, among its various products and solutions, and demonstrate general products and solutions equipped with these products to help people easily understand and experience NFC in real life.

Products easily accessible to the home, including an NFC oven, NFC speaker, and the 'Energy Pop' smart valve controller, are being introduced. The NFC oven allows you to wirelessly transfer recipes from your smartphone to the oven, enabling automatic cooking based on those recipes. The NFC speaker allows you to enjoy music from your smartphone by transferring it to the speaker with a single touch, without the need for a wired connection. The 'Energy Pop' smart valve controller utilizes the NFC function of a smartphone to control the heating hot water valve, thereby regulating the home temperature, saving energy, and efficiently reducing heating costs.

ST’s M24LR series, integrated into these products, works in conjunction with RFID readers such as NFC smartphones to wirelessly exchange important information and enables both reading and writing. Through low-power I2C and ISO15693 interfaces, it allows for bidirectional reading and writing via both wireless and wired connections, facilitating application configuration and browsing after integration with NFC phones. It also features advanced "energy harvesting" technology that converts radio waves generated by mobile devices, such as NFC phones and tablets, into energy for self-power supply, along with advantages such as cost efficiency and ease of design.

The NFC transceiver controller ICs CR95HF and RX95HF are demonstrated in solutions such as door lock systems, electronic queue management systems, and system firmware upgraders. In the case of door lock systems, users can authenticate via smartphone to safely and conveniently control door and security systems. Electronic queue management systems reduce queuing or waiting times by authenticating queue numbers using NFC smartphones. Additionally, a system firmware upgrader is introduced that allows system functions to be upgraded through data transmission and reception using only the smartphone's NFC capabilities, without the need for additional connection devices such as USB cables.

For more detailed inquiries regarding ST participating products, please contact the ST Korea branch (02-3489-0114).