RFID-Enabled Phone Skins for Mobile Payments
Mobile Payment Skins is embedding RFID inlays into the cell phone skins it offers, providing a new, cashless way to pay for goods.
By Mary Catherine O'Connor
July 6, 2009—Mobile Payment Skins, a new company based in Knoxville, Tenn., believes it has found a viable business model that will prove popular among consumers, while also helping to foster the adoption of mobile payment options using radio frequency identification.
The company will begin issuing consumers personalized vinyl mobile phone wraps—also known as skins—that contain an RFID inlay, which can be used to process payment transactions. Consumers will utilize the skins to pay for goods at merchants offering RFID-based (contactless) payments using specialized, RFID-enabled point-of-sale terminals. The RFID inlay embedded in the skin is a passive, high-frequency (HF) 13.56 MHz tag that follows the ISO 14443-B air interface protocol and is certified for payment card applications. It is the same type of inlay used in RFID-enabled credit and debit cards issued by Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
SOURCE: RFID JOURNAL
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