Managing NFC payment applications through cloud computing

Near Field Communication (NFC) provides a contactless technology for data transmission between smart phones, PCs, PDAs and such devices. It is based on the Bluetooth technology as they are both short-range communication technologies. With NFC people can use their mobile phones to pay for goods and services. They can also use other applications such as ticketing, loyalty, etc. Having sensitive information as well as several parties involved during the NFC operation, caused the delay towards its adoption. Managing NFC applications has become a major issue in the market and stakeholders are testing different implementation methods to deliver the most secure, flexible and manageable NFC to their customers. We believe cloud computing can solve many issues in regards to NFC application management and in this paper we have proposed our approach which can be implemented for the ease of managing the whole NFC ecosystem. We have also considered different SE architectures and explained our preferable model.