Implementation of Near Field Communication (NFC) in Retail Industry: An Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography explores the challenges and benefits of implementing Near Field Communication (NFC) in the retail industry. It covers various topics such as big data system development, project management methodologies, and NFC implementation in the automotive environment. The bibliography provides insights into the gaps and limitations within the deployment of NFC solutions and offers a framework for measuring project performance using various strategies.

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Implementation of Near Field Communication (NFC)
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Introduction
Without NFC devices, it might difficult to enable new application and services. In the retail
industry it encounters numerous challenges as a result of the absence of appropriate devices to
ensure transactions are done, enable checkout lines, client satisfaction and better communication
with the client. The annotated bibliography below shows researches on the implementation of
Near Field Communication (NFC) on how it could be used to overcome challenges in the retail
business. Presently organizations are seeking ways to find efficiencies as well as improve on
their decision making through deployment of the NFC. However, for the organization to benefit
from these kind of innovative technologies they need to optimize on their IT architectures
systems to ensure the solutions do satisfy end users expectations. The objective of the annotated
bibliography aims to address on the gaps as well as limitation within the deployment of NFC
solutions in efforts to inform the readers of challenges which need to be overcome to attain
benefits to the emerging platforms and enable continued innovation.
Annotated bibliography
Chen, H. M., Kazman, R., Haziyev, S., &Hrytsay, O. (2015, May). Big data system
development: an embedded case study with a global outsourcing firm.
In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on BIG Data Software
Engineering (pp. 44-50). IEEE Press.
This article examines how the big data development in terms of the processes and methods differ
from the small- traditional, structured data system development. Big data system developments
have dramatically differed from the traditional data system development. Towards the end of the
2014, the big data deployment was still scarce and the failures were abound. Outsourcing
becomes the main strategy for many organizations. Therefore, in this research it used a case
study to select an outsourcing company which was successfully deployed to the big data projects.

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On the result of this research from the analyses of the ten outsources big data projects it was able
to provide a glimpse into the early adopters of the big data. Moreover, it showed the challenges
for the system development. This research is significant to this project since it shows the
challenges which are encountered particularly for the system development. Moreover, the
research showed the paradigm shift as well as complexity when it comes to the big data
management which underscores the significance of the architecture centric design methods.
Joslin, R., & Müller, R. (2015). Relationships between a project management methodology
and project success in different project governance contexts. International Journal
of Project Management, 33(6), 1377-1392.
This article examines the relationship between the use of the project management methodology
and the project success, along with the effect of the project governance context to this kind of
relationship. The result of this study highlights that the application of the PMM usually account
to 22.3% of the variation when it comes to the project success, and thus, PMMs is usually
considered sufficiently comprehensive in order to manage on the project lead particularly to the
higher levels of the success of the projects than the PMMs which requires supplement to the use
of the project manager. This research shows that project governance usually acts as the quasi-
moderator in this kind of relationship. The findings need to benefit the project management
practitioners through offering insights when it comes to the choices of PMM in various
governance contexts. It is important to note that the research study has some limitations one
such is in the exploratory result of some of the findings, which entails further study for the
validation. Another limitation is that is it unclear as to whether the respondents last projects were
completed recently and this might impact their responses to the questionnaire. This study is
important for my project since it provide an understanding of effectiveness of PMM. Moreover,

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further research need to be done as to whether moderation factors impact the relationship
between project PMM and success of project.
Kerzner, H. (2017). Project management metrics, KPIs, and dashboards: a guide to measuring
and monitoring project performance. John Wiley & Sons.
Kerzner (2017) in this article highlights the strategies to measure the project management
performance especially to growth of the complex projects, advancement in visual based
technology and the use of the KPIs. These are essential components which are required to
evaluate the project performance such as this project which is implementation of the NFC to
solve or address the business challenges. The aspects such as dashboard reporting system offers
accessibility to the performance of the project, and sharing of the crucial data in a manner which
is consistent to the key communication. This paper, is crucial in this project since it would
provide the basis of measuring project performance using various strategies.
Kim, J., Banks, A., Xie, Z., Heo, S. Y., Gutruf, P., Lee, J. W., ... & Choi, J. (2015).
Miniaturized Flexible Electronic Systems With Wireless Power and Near‐Field
Communication Capabilities. Advanced Functional Materials, 25(30), 4761-4767.
In this article it examines miniaturized flexible electronic systems with the wireless power and
the near field communication capabilities. The use of these systems enhances advantages in the
mechanical strength, placement versatility, and minimizes the interfacial stresses as compared to
the other NFC technologies along with the wearable electronics. The use of the detailed
experimental studies as well as theoretical modeling of the mechanical as well as
electromagnetic properties to these systems they can establish some understanding of the major
design considerations. This article has applied various concepts to various other types of the

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wireless communication systems which include the biosensors as well as electronic implants.
The material, device design as well as integration strategies which are presented in this article
will be useful to this research since they would offer a framework for the mm-scale, flexible,
body worn NFC systems that has the capability of application of a password in the biometric
sensing. The materials will be useful since the concepts used could be applied to various other
types of wireless communication systems which include the biosensors and the electronic
implants.
Lee, Y. K., Kim, J., Kim, Y., Kwak, J. W., Yoon, Y., & Rogers, J. A. (2017). Room
temperature electrochemical sintering of Zn microparticles and its use in printable
conducting inks for bioresorbable electronics. Advanced Materials, 29(38), 1702665.
This article describes the conductive ink formulation which exploits on the electrochemical
sintering of the Zn microparticles especially in the aqueous solutions at the room temperature.
The material system has significance particularly to the emerging classes of the biologically as
well as the environmentally degradable electronic devices. This paper highlights the process of
the acid induced rapid zinc metal under the ambient conditions, without necessary heating or
even mechanical loading. The materials which is presented in this research is critically important
since it results to electrochemistry that established the basis for the remarkably simple
procedures which are used in the printing of the conductive features particularly in the degrable
materials more so in the ambient condition over large areas. This research is important for the
study since it demonstrates examples of printed magnetic loop antennas for the near field
communication devices. These are application for the NFC implementation and this is the basis
of this research topic.

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Steffen, R., Preißinger, J., Schöllermann, T., Müller, A., & Schnabel, I. (2010, April). Near
field communication (NFC) in an automotive environment. In Near Field
Communication (NFC), 2010 Second International Workshop on (pp. 15-20). IEEE.
Steffen et al. (2010) proposes NFC for an automotive environment. With this technology
it provides intuitive interactions between the human and the vehicles. This paper, has explored
on the various NFC based uses particularly in the automotive environment. All the use cases they
have been implemented NFC in the BMW vehicles in order to attain the experiences of this
technology in the real car scenario. Within this research it has described soft and hardware
architecture along with our experiences in setting such as prototype. This research shows a clear
scenario of how NFC could be implemented such as automotive context. This research paper is
useful in the research been undertaken since it shows real case scenario of implementing the
NFC technology.
Svejvig, P., & Andersen, P. (2015). Rethinking project management: A structured
literaturereview with a critical look at the brave new world. International Journal of
Project Management, 33(2), 278-290.
This article examines the results of the structured review of rethinking project management
literature which are based on classification as well as analysis of 74 contributions. Additionally,
the research takes a look at the brave new world. Through this analysis, there have been a total of
six overarching categories emerged such as social, contextualization, rethinking practice,
complexity as well as uncertainty. These categories they have been able to cover wide range of
numerous contributions with wide and alternative perspective when it comes to the project
management. The literature has been published from 2006 onwards, and the research stream

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from this research still remain very active. The research has critically looked at the brave new
world which exhibits the overall challenge to the RPM which has become more diffused and it
has been accepted. This paper had some limitations such as; conceptualization of RPM research
stream was broad and readers need to consider it as non monolithic with numerous sub versions.
This shows that there was a great diversity which was reviewed, and this posed the danger of
being too inclusive, but it also invite further studies of the conceptualization of the RPM. This
paper is helpful in the project undertaken since it highlights how project are undertaken and there
are wide variety of literature on how to conceptualize research and hence it was helpful on how
to get materials rated to the FNC implementation.
Tatiraju, R., Gupta, R., Salunke, S., &Yeolekar, R. (2017). NFiD: An NFC based system
for
Digital Business Cards.
The objective of the research done by Tatiraju et. al (2017), is to present an NFC based
technology in order to replace the paper card with the digital business card when it comes to
marketing and business. This paper shows how the advancement of the technology has made
digitization in the daily activities to be inevitable. The business cards, which were the longest
used analog tool in the communication, were required to be changed and digital alternative
formulated. The technological elements of the system are presented within this research, where
the business contacts are transferred to the users’ Smartphone. Moreover, an Android application
enables the users to browse all the contacts as well as store and retrieve contacts from cloud. The
proposed model within this research was improvement to the current business card system since

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it uses NFC. This paper is important in this research since it provide useful information related to
NFC implementation.
Tung, Y. H., &Juang, W. S. (2017). Secure and efficient mutual authentication scheme for
NFC mobile devices. Journal of electronic science and technology, 15(3), 240-245.
This article journal details how the technology of the mobile devices has been able to spread, and
the price of the mobile has been getting cheaper. Most of individuals have the access of mobile
devices, and these devices they posses technology of the near field communication. With this
long development as well as research, the mobile devices are utilizing the NFC technology on
the payment along with the authentication programs, and replace the smartcard, access of the
control card, and the credit card utilizing various card emulation modes. This research shows
how the NFC has been utilized in the mobile devices which have been crucial for the
development since it enhances or improves communication. This research paper has provided
useful insight on how NFC is important since it has been utilized in the mobile devices which are
used by individuals every day.
Umar, A., Mayes, K., &Markantonakis, K. (2015, February). Performance variation in
hostbased card emulation compared to a hardware security element. In Mobile and
Secure Services (MOBISECSERV), 2015 First Conference on (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
In this article it is about the performance variation in the host based card emulation as compared
to the hardware security elements. This article shows how NFC devices have made hardware

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secure element as the secure storage as well as execution environment for the application. There
has been different ways NFC has been used to secure storage and execution application which
bypasses the SE has emerged. The research talks on how the mobile phone utilizes the HCE to
run the CPU for the processing power, sharing as well as running the processes. The paper has
talked extensively on the variability in the HCE implementation as compared to SE
implementation. The findings in this research are useful in this project since they discusses NFC
devices card emulation which makes the hardware secure.
Yang, T., Zhu, J., Hou, W., &Jin, G. (2014). Design method of freeform off-axis reflective
imaging systems with a direct construction process. Optics express, 22(8), 9193-9205.
In this paper by Yang et al.(2014) it proposes a method used to design the freedom off axis
reflective imaging systems. There was usage of special algorithm which was used to calculate
the data points to the unknown freedom Surface utilizing the rays from various fields as well as
different pupil coordinates. These kind of points they have been used in the construction of the
various dimensional freedom surfaces to the imaging beam. There has been unobscured design
that has freeform surfaces which could be obtained directly with this technique. This is an ideal
starting point for further optimization. The benefit of the design technique has been demonstrated
by the designing freedom off axis mirror for the imaging design that has a high performance as
well as system specifications. This research is important since it shows a method design for the

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off axis imaging systems. This research is crucial to this project since it provide insights of NFC
implementation in the imaging systems.
Zharinov, R., Trifonova, U., &Gorin, A. (2014). Using RFID Techniques for a Universal
Identification Device. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of Open
InnovationsAssociation
FRUCT and 2nd Seminar on e-Tourism for Karelia and Oulu Region (pp. 244-248).
This article is about utilizing RFID techniques for the Universal Identification Device. This
technology is a radio wave technology which is used to transfer of the data from the tag, attached
to the object and through the reader in order to identify the object. This technology has been used
widely to numerous organizations particularly in the authorization aspects of the systems. With
this technology there are hardware and software components. This paper, has discussed widely
on the use of the RFID technology in the transfer of the data since, NFC is used in the
communication and transfer this research is useful in this project since it highlights how the
implementation could be done. There is correlation to the research since they both are used in the
transfer and communication parts.
Conclusion
The researches which are conducted have identified the implementation of the NFC technologies
and its deployment which is complex which comes with the challenges which should be
overcome. To benefit from this technology the business need to be prepared to implement and
maintain the dynamics of the Information technology.

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Task 2 self evaluation report on originality
Based on the originality report the percentage is less than ten percent. There are few areas which
have plagiarism but this is because there are terminologies which cannot be paraphrased but
appropriate acknowledgement of the authors has been done. Where context has been borrowed
proper referencing has been done to acknowledge the effort of the original author of this
research. Moreover, there is plagiarism in some parts such as those with references; these cannot
be paraphrased since they are the journals and articles for the annotated bibliography. This
context from the other authors is important since it would be useful to this research and will help
identify the research gap within this field of emerging technologies and innovation.

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References
Chen, H. M., Kazman, R., Haziyev, S., &Hrytsay, O. (2015, May). Big data system
development: an embedded case study with a global outsourcing firm. In Proceedings of
the First International Workshop on BIG Data Software Engineering(pp. 44-50). IEEE
Press.
Joslin, R., & Müller, R. (2015). Relationships between a project management methodology and
project success in different project governance contexts. International Journal of Project
Management, 33(6), 1377-1392.
Kerzner, H. (2017). Project management metrics, KPIs, and dashboards: a guide to measuring
and monitoring project performance. John Wiley & Sons.
Kim, J., Banks, A., Xie, Z., Heo, S. Y., Gutruf, P., Lee, J. W., ... & Choi, J. (2015). Miniaturized
Flexible Electronic Systems With Wireless Power and Near‐Field Communication
Capabilities. Advanced Functional Materials, 25(30), 4761-4767.
Lee, Y. K., Kim, J., Kim, Y., Kwak, J. W., Yoon, Y., & Rogers, J. A. (2017). Room temperature
electrochemical sintering of Zn microparticles and its use in printable conducting inks for
bioresorbable electronics. Advanced Materials, 29(38), 1702665.
Steffen, R., Preißinger, J., Schöllermann, T., Müller, A., & Schnabel, I. (2010, April). Near
field communication (NFC) in an automotive environment. In Near Field
Communication (NFC), 2010 Second International Workshop on (pp. 15-20). IEEE.
Svejvig, P., & Andersen, P. (2015). Rethinking project management: A structured literature
review with a critical look at the brave new world. International Journal of Project
Management, 33(2), 278-290.
Tatiraju, R., Gupta, R., Salunke, S., &Yeolekar, R. (2017). NFiD: An NFC based system for
Digital Business Cards.
Tung, Y. H., &Juang, W. S. (2017). Secure and efficient mutual authentication scheme for NFC
mobile devices. Journal of electronic science and technology, 15(3), 240-245.

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Umar, A., Mayes, K., &Markantonakis, K. (2015, February). Performance variation in host-
based card emulation compared to a hardware security element. In Mobile and Secure
Services (MOBISECSERV), 2015 First Conference on (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Yang, T., Zhu, J., Hou, W., &Jin, G. (2014). Design method of freeform off-axis reflective
imaging systems with a direct construction process. Optics express, 22(8), 9193-9205.
Zharinov, R., Trifonova, U., &Gorin, A. (2014). Using RFID Techniques for a Universal
Identification Device. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of Open Innovations
Association FRUCT and 2nd Seminar on e-Tourism for Karelia and Oulu Region (pp.
244-248).