scholarly journals A Luggage Control System Based on NFC and Homomorphic Cryptography

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Néstor Álvarez-Díaz ◽  
Pino Caballero-Gil ◽  
Mike Burmester
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Waiting Time ◽  
Performance Test ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Near Field Communication ◽  
Airport Terminal ◽  
Passenger Flows ◽  
Paillier Cryptosystem ◽  
Airport Terminals

We propose an innovative luggage tracking and management system that can be used to secure airport terminal services and reduce the waiting time of passengers during check-in. This addresses an urgent need to streamline and optimize passenger flows at airport terminals and lowers the risk of terrorist threats. The system employs Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and homomorphic cryptography (the Paillier cryptosystem) to protect wireless communication and stored data. A security analysis and a performance test show the usability and applicability of the proposed system.

Formal security analysis of near field communication using model checking

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Alexiou ◽  
Stylianos Basagiannis ◽  
Sophia Petridou
Keyword(s):  
Model Checking ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Near Field Communication

scholarly journals NFC based inventory control system for secure and efficient communication

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Razi Iqbal ◽  
Awais Ahmad ◽  
Asfandyar Gilani
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Inventory Control ◽  
Short Range ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Near Field Communication ◽  
Efficient Communication ◽  
Different Types

This paper brings up this idea of using Near Field Communication (NFC) for inventory control system instead of using traditional barcodes. NFC because of its high security, ease of use and efficiency can be very suitable for systems like inventory control. In traditional inventory control systems, each product has a barcode pasted on it, which is vulnerable to attacks as barcodes are open and have no security. Furthermore, barcodes are prone to damages and can be unreliable when pasted on different types of products e.g. hot and frozen products, circular shaped products and irregular shaped products like clothes etc. NFC on the other hand is very efficient, secure and reliable when it comes to short-range wireless communication. In this paper we will present our prototype for the inventory control system of an electronic store in which each product has a passive NFC tag pasted to it. When a customer buys a product the receipt of the product is generated using NFC between the NFC passive tag on the product and NFC enabled device (e.g. smart phone or reader) at the cash counter.

Walk the Line: Optimizing the Layout Design of Moving Walkways

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Boysen ◽  
Dirk Briskorn ◽  
Stefan Schwerdfeger
Keyword(s):  
Layout Design ◽  
Design Rule ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
Airport Terminal ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Passenger Flows ◽  
Airport Terminals ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Benchmark Solutions

A moving walkway (also denoted as moving sidewalk, travelator, autowalk, pedestrian conveyor, or skywalk) is a slow moving conveyor that transports standing or walking people horizontally over a short to medium distance. Constantly moving walkways have a long-lasting tradition especially inside large buildings, such as airport terminals and railway stations. Novel technological developments allow to accelerate walkways in their middle sections up to 12 km/h, while still providing a safe and much slower entrance and exit. Furthermore, first applications of moving walkways as environmentally friendly and space-efficient alternatives for urban public transport exist. In this context, our paper aims to support the layout design of moving walkways with optimization. Given a straight corridor (e.g., an airport terminal) and the passenger flows within the corridor (e.g., among gates), we aim to optimally place bidirectional walkway segments. We show that the resulting optimization problem is efficiently solvable by dynamic programming even if multiple relevant extensions, such as multiple objectives, budget constraints, and minimum safety distances, among subsequent segments are relevant. We apply our algorithm to explore the impact of constantly moving and accelerating walkways on total travel times and benchmark solutions without walkway support in a real-world case study. Our results reveal that wrongly placed walkways may considerably slow down passenger transport, but a very simple design rule leads to near-optimal results.

RFID, NFC, Beacons, and the Infrastructures of Logistical Locative Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 474-486
Author(s):  
Jordan Frith
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Near Field Communication ◽  
Rfid Tags ◽  
Bluetooth Low Energy ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Machine Readable

The phrase the Internet of things was originally coined in a 1999 presentation about attaching radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to individual objects. These tags would make the objects machine-readable, uniquely identifiable, and, most importantly, wirelessly communicative with infrastructure. This chapter evaluates RFID as a piece of mobile communicative infrastructure, and it examines two emerging forms: near-field communication (NFC) and Bluetooth low-energy beacons. The chapter shows how NFC and Bluetooth low-energy beacons may soon move some types of RFID to smartphones, in this way evolving the use of RFID in payment and transportation and enabling new practices of post-purchasing behaviors.

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